“It is a much less organized place - called Xanadu.” Isn't that much more interesting than her accent, Mycroft? Yes. Yes it is. “A city as railway station, if we accept discrete realities as destination, from which to come and to go. It does not have, ah, the government or these things, but it forms similarly to this place, building itself from its inhabitants. Who may not inhabit at all.”

Leave a little slice of their reality behind them, until there's a whole place made up out of patchwork. City as junction, as hotel.

“Baedal is not so-- laissez-faire.”