Day 710

The thing about building into cliffs is that you have to account for the water table shifting and draining. It's got to go somewhere and in our city we let it drain down between the houses. If it weren't for the thick layers of moss that build up all over the walls, sometimes causing the bricks to just crumble, it'd be perfectly fine. As it is we're struggling to keep the city afloat among the boggy marshland that's slowly swallowing us up.

We've already lost Earlbury Street and most of the riverside borough to last year's flooding and now the cliff rivers are flowing stronger than ever before. We're getting rapids through the gutters and it's sadly not uncommon to find a bloated face staring at you from a grate with their bruised fingers clutching the metal bars like they thought that would help them. It never does.

There aren't any places where you can easily get into the system of rivers and gutters that run underneath the city but that doesn't stop people from turning up uninvited anyway. We've have all kinds of people turn up there, the water doesn't care who goes in so long as they don't get out.

Have you ever seen a forensic team try to pull a water-logged body out of a hole far too small? They either end up cutting away at the torso and getting the poor bugger out in chunks or yanking and grabbing at whatever they can. More often than not whatever they don't collect ends up getting caught somewhere else, clogging the pipes and flooding the area even more.

It's getting to the point where we're using boats more than buses and having our cars raised so the underside doesn't trail through the water and break. All the while its rising and all the while everyone says they're leaving, that they've found a cheap place somewhere in the next county but they never go.

Even I've casually mentioned a flat I saw near Leingham-Upon-Crouch though I have no intention of moving out. Not just yet at least, I want to see how far this city will sink. Call it morbid curiosity, call it seeking a finite conclusion, call it whatever you like and let me wait and see.

I wonder how many bodies it will take to drown the city alive.