Lost Ships and Lost Lands (short story)

 was the fourth story of Tales of the City.

Summary
Running away from home, a young woman seeks out peddlers of illicit technology in the hope of permanently changing her imago, specifically in order to give herself wings. Although she fails to purchase a permanent change, she does by virtue of coincidence end up in the company of travellers, seeking a mythic lost land. Travellers who may be in possession of exactly what she was really after all along...

Characters

 * Brianna

Continuity

 * Objects capable of changing an Imago are still considered mythical. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)