Mirzh
Mirzh is a secondary provincial transport city known as Three Lines for its rail junction. Red Bridge joins the market and bus districts; Depot Hill contains repair yards and worker flats; Old Market has mixed shops and rented rooms. It is not dominated by one strategic industry, although the railway remains its largest employer. Households combine rail work, trade, teaching, health and small workshop income.
Rail freight, coach maintenance, warehouses, municipal services and wholesale markets are principal employers. Secondary employment includes appliance repair, food stalls, boarding rooms, tailoring and cartage. Mirzh Transport College trains dispatchers, mechanics and clerks. Three Lines Clinic has a good emergency reputation but lacks beds for chronic care. The station is the centre of work and social life; a timetable change can alter school collection, market supply and a household's ability to visit an elderly relative.
Mirzh Household Metal, Stavro Electric Repair and Ordan Parcel counters are ordinary landmarks even this far inland. Station announcements, market boards and a small licensed newspaper carry local information. The yearly rail maintenance weekend, when several lines close together, is both a nuisance and a festival of repair. Mirzh is proud of being useful to everywhere else; outsiders call it anonymous. A tolerated practice is carrying unregistered parcels in a repair van when the formal dispatch counter is closed. The former Junction Hotel has become a dormitory, but “the hotel” remains a local direction. The live dispute is whether a new security inspection hall should take space from the market. The Orun nephew's father works the line here and sends household parts back to Sevrin through the same network that inspectors watch.