Transit Bridge — Academy Island to Aldenmere.
The transit bridge crossed a channel of approximately 90 meter, not wide by continental standards, but the water it spanned ran fast and cold with the deep-current character of water that was connected to a much larger body somewhere below.
The channel's floor was bedrock at twelve meters depth, and in calm weather the water was clear enough that from the bridge's midpoint you could see the stone below, pale and old, with a quality that suggested it had been there significantly longer than the bridge above it.
I had made this crossing, by my rough count, forty-one times since October.
The bridge itself was a functional structure stone arch construction, no decorative ambition, built for the specific purpose of moving people and goods between the academy island and the mainland. It was wide enough for three people abreast or one laden cart.
