A tlantis/Seattle was designed small and to the point; the narrow, 
convoluted straits of Puget Sound, already so full of natural islands, did not 
leave much room for artificial ones. So they had made it rather long and 
slender, parallel to the currents and the shipping lanes, and been rather 
stingy when it came to the parks, meadows, heaths, gentleman farms, and country 
estates. Much of the Seattle area was still sufficiently rich, civilized, and 
polite that New Atlantans did not object to living there, and little 
Victorian mini-claves were scattered about the place, particularly east of the 
lake, around the misty forest
domains of the software khans. Gwen and Fiona had taken a townhouse in one of 
these areas.