Salutation (short story)

 was the first story of Furthest Tales of the City. It depicted the creation of the City of the Saved.

Summary
Civitata works with the Universal Machine to transform herself into the City of the Saved.

Characters

 * Civitata
 * Universal Machine

Continuity

 * Civitata remembers that she was once an "uncomplicated human" (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) and that she was transformed into a "sentience occupying the conceptual architecture of a peripatetic spacetime nexus". (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)
 * Civitata mentions the Isoptaline. (PROSE: Weighty Questions)