One of the city's bands, where the city's polish thins. Mekhi's workspace lives deep in a sublevel of the Near-South District, and a recovery clinic opens at its boundary.
From the books
“It lived deep in a sublevel of the Near-South District, where the civic skin above him hummed with routed life, its teal diagnostic veins pulsing through the ceiling like a second circulatory system.”
Part 1, Chapter 2: The Frame That Won't Stay Gone, p. 27
“The data trail led down into the Near-South sublevels, into a pocket of network behavior that had been intentionally allowed to remain rough.”
Part 1, Chapter 6: The First Thread, p. 128
