Lost Ships and Lost Lands

Lost Ships and Lost Lands
"Lost Ships and Lost Lands" is a story by Juliet Kemp and is part of the anthology Tales of the City edited by Philip Purser-Hallard for Obverse Books. Like all stories with that anthology, it explore some facet of City society, in this case the concept of self image, or imago, as well as the Indestructibilty of the Reborn within The City of the Saved.

Synopsis
Running away from home, a young woman seeks out pedlers 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 ...