Editing Kennet (section)

===Points of Interest===
Concrete stairs lead up the mountain to Blue Gas, choked with litter from teens going up to the gas station.<ref>Underdressed for the weather as she was, she climbed out of the car, grunting at the pain in her back, shut and locked the door, and then followed the great beast on foot, leaning heavily into the railing that ran beside a set of concrete stairs.  The stairs connected the straighter parts of the winding mountain road, so people in the town who wanted to travel up to the gas station on foot didn’t have to zig-zag their way up the lonely road.  The fact the gas station was at the top would be why there was so much litter on either side of the staircase, including a half-full plastic bottle standing up on a stair that she nearly tripped over on her way down.  She stopped herself mid-fall by catching the railing with both hands. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/05 Excerpt] from [[Blood Run Cold 0.0]]</ref> [[Louise Bayer]]'s house was up the road from the gas station, overlooking the town,<ref>Driven by impulse, she stepped off her front porch, and climbed into her car, wincing at the pain in her midsection.  This wouldn’t be the first time she hadn’t listened to her doctors.<br><br>She pulled onto the lonely mountain road that saw perhaps one car an hour, each property separated by a few minutes of driving.<br>[...]<br>It was eight in the evening, which meant most of the buildings in Kennet were closed.  Below the mountain road, shops were dark, and half the lights across the main road through town were off.  The gas station was the first lit building she came across, garish and bright in the dark.<br>[...]<br>“Louise Bayer.  I live up by Blue Gas.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/05 Excerpt] from [[Blood Run Cold 0.0]]</ref> as is that of her neighbours Tom and Arnold.<ref>A group of twenty-something men were packing up from their game of hockey on the outdoor rink, including Tom and Arnold from the ski hills.  They were roommates, sharing the house two minutes down the road from her.  Back when she’d been healthier, she’d caught their runaway dog and brought it back to them.  They’d been good neighbors ever since.  Helpers when she’d needed a lot of help, putting up a rod in her shower, checking in. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/05 Eexcerpt] from [[Blood Run Cold 0.0]]</ref>

The Kennet Cinema has to close in summer due to lack of customers.<ref name=":0" />

There's a single wide bridge between the two halves of Kennet, with road, sidewalk, and street lamps built into the railing.<ref name=":2" /> There's a corner store next to it.<ref>There was a corner store by the bridge that divided the western half of Kennet from the eastern half, and she hurried to do the shopping for the milk, bread, the jerky and the venison pepperoni.<br><br>Loaded down with schoolbag, gym bag, and the plastic bag with the milk inside, she crossed the bridge and navigated the winding streets on the east side of Kennet.  Here, the buildings were spaced far apart, with desolate lots and grass-less fields between them.  A big box hardware store.  A dismal car lot.  The dance studio.  The Christian school. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/09 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.1]]</ref>

The [[Kennet Arena]] is the second-largest building in town, after the Hospital, and is active almost constantly. It's nicknamed the K-A.<ref>The Kennet Arena or the K-A was like the gas stations, brightly lit at a time the rest of the town had wound down.  Here, the parking lot was filled with parents talking to parents, kids talking to kids.  A good number of those kids were wearing hockey uniforms.  The building itself was one of the largest in town, next to the hospital, hosting a full-size hockey rink and gymnasium.  In a town with so little to do, there was usually a practice or a game at the K-A.  This might have been one of the last games of the season for the kids. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/05 Excerpt] from [[Blood Run Cold 0.0]]</ref> During the winter, it serves as a naturally frozen outdoor hockey rink.<ref>“Hey, Louise,” Tom greeted her.  He was dark haired, with the stubble kept even with a razor.  “Ice is a mess.  Everything’s thawing.”<br><br>“Yeah, too bad,” she said.<br><br>“Last outdoor skate of the season, I think.”<br>[...]<br>She walked over to the rink, bounded by wooden boards that held up badly abused sheets of plexiglass that kept the pucks inbound.<br><br>Yeah, the ice was a mess.<br><br>Across the rink, she saw, there was a loose silhouette shape stained into the ice, matching a leg and paw of the great beast.  It extended, she realized, into the trees at the back of the rink, and onto the mountain of snow that had been built up over months of the parking lot being plowed and the ice of two rinks being cleared off.  It could well be the very last thing in Kennet to fully thaw.  On that mountain of snow, if she walked around, she could see the general shape of the thing’s ear and muzzle.  More of the stain extended across the outer perimeter of the parking lot. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/05 Excerpt] from [[Blood Run Cold 0.0]]</ref>

After the Carmine Exile took the throne he created the [[Kennet Undercity]], an inverted [[Knotted Place|knotted]] version of Kennet filled with violent and unruly individuals.