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Tess Montgomery tucked a strand of blonde hair behind her ear and scanned the marketplace. In a city leached of color in the During, it amazed her to see such bright tarps blocking the sun from myriad and colorful wares. Fruits and vegetables, storage containers, and various parts belonging to everything from electronics to vehicles filled Broadway. Damage to the coast had caused several inlets to develop. Oceans and waterways continued to be used for transportation, as they had in the past ten thousand years. Merchants and scavengers discovered it was easier to use water rather than land to bring cumbersome pieces or large quantities to this place of commerce twice a week. Because fossil fuels were seldom used, the exorbitant cost making them mostly nonexistent, many used small skiffs
