"I won't deny that I'd be personally interested in a project of that kind," Rhiow said, licking her whiskers at the thought of it. "Carp is lovely but the taste gets tiresome after a while."

She stretched out, yawning, and then resettled herself on the bank. "We asked Stacy to divert a portion of her water pipelines. The source of the current is that pipeline emptying from the City wall, although I've never been that far down the river myself. It empties out deep in Escherville, back into Stacy's pipes, and presumably gets cycled through the ship again."