Salutation (short story)

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

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

Characters

 * Compassion
 * Universal Machine

Continuity

 * Compassion 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)
 * Compassion mentions the Isoptaline. (PROSE: Weighty Questions)