Chapter+Summaries

**Chapter 1: The Hunting Ground

Chapter 2: Valentine

Chapter 3: The Waste Chute** in this chapter the girl with the scar on her face tries to attack valentine and tries to kill him. tom tries to protect valentine and chases the girl. tom finds out the girls name before she heaves herself over the handrail and falls into the waste chute. valentine finds tom and tom asked about the girl but valentine pushed tom over the edge before anyone saw.

in this chapter the girl(hester shaw) and tom survive the fall and land on mud outside of london. they try to follow london's tracks that were left in the mud to while both are walking injured. hester tries to tell tom that valentine did the things that hester says but tom doesn't believe her.
 * Chapter 4: The Out-Country**

in this chapter the lord mayor Magnus Crome goes to talk to valentine and why he is talking to Valentine Kathrine was listening in on the conversation and her dad said something about a ghost from his past and something about medusa
 * Chapter 5: The Lord Mayor

Chapter 6: Speedwell In this chapter tom thinks that valentine is awesome and he feels like the museum is a beautiful, **//(golden dream)//**. He also likes katherine and wonders if she would know for who his father really was and they talk a bit about the traction cities and how people don't really care about how the places are getting eaten up. They kind of talk about "Medusa" and stuff accept the don't know what it is. She also tells tom the story why she wanted to kill valentine and tells the story how he kills her mum. And yeh!

Chapter 7: High London:** In this chapter, Magnus Crome goes to visit Doctor Twix to see a Stalker, which he and his team have been researching on. The Stalkers name is Shrike. Shrike tells Crome, that he must go after Hester and kill Hester and Tom and bring the bodies back to Crome. To find Hester and Tom, Crome supplies Shrike with a Guilds Goshawk 90 airship. Katherine later finds out, Crome is sending Valentine on a reconnaissance flight into the leading Anti-Traction city, Shan Guo. Katherine wants to join her father but he refuses and tells her its too dangerous.


 * __Chapter 8: The Trading Cluster__**-In this chapter, after meeting Wreyland and ate food that he gave them Tom and Hester find out that the food had been drugged by Wreyland, and that he was going to sell them both in the trading cluster. Shrike starts his mission to kill Hester and Tom on his ship the Gowshawk 90. Tom and Hester find a way to escape from Wreyland the cunning mayor of Speedwell(traction town).


 * __Chapter 9: The //Jenny Haniver//__- In this chapter Hester and Tom escape from the cruel mayor Wreyland, but now Wreyland has sent his guards to go look for them in the trading cluster. Tom and Hester meet Anna Fang a kind aviatrix and escapes on her ship which she made all by herself from items that she found in the dump. In the end of this chapter the successfully escape from the Trading cluster and head towards Air haven.

Chapter 10: The //13th Floor Elevator://** This chapter is when valentine goes off in his air ship. This air ship is called the 13th floor elevator, Hence the title. Katherine his daughter, is feeling very worried about his departure. At the end of this chapter Valentine finds katherines face and looks at her to reassure her. Then the 13th floor elevator takes off while everyone gathered there, at tier one, cheers.


 * Chapter 11: Airhaven:** This chapter is about the trip to Air haven taken by tom, Hester and Miss Fang. What happens is that miss fang wants to know where london is going so tom made up a story to tell miss fang so she wouldn't throw him and hester off her airship. This story was to go to the central hunting ground to get prey. Hester also told miss fang about what valentine did to her and her parents. They reach Air haven, which is a town that took to the air to escpe the hugry cities below, and then miss fang takes them to dinner at the Gasbag and Gondola.


 * Chapter 12: The Gasbag and Gondola

Chapter 13: The Resurrected Man:** Hester and Tom find out that a "Stalker" named Shrike was on their tale of whom was sent to eliminate them. Tom was shocked after he found out that Hester knew Shrike. They are in the balloon and flying away from Shrike. Not long after, they landed because they knew they would not stand a chance against Shrike in the air. On the ground, they could outwit him. So they get off and run using the stars as a navigator..

__**Chapter 14: The Guildhall:**__ Katherine's father has left on his 'expedition'. Katherine went to see the lord mayor to find out a bit more about how her father knew Hester and the connection between them. When Katherine reached the lord mayors' office and asked him about how her father knew Hester and why he was so worried the lord mayor replied, it is none of your business and you shouldn't worry about it. So she left and went to pray to the goddess [|clio] for help. On her way back home she got an idea. She remembered seeing a young apprentice engineer heading the opposite direction so he must know something.

In this chapter tom and hester have been wlakiking all night and discuss how the landscape is so much different than the mud plains. They spend the night at a shelter of stunted trees. Tom wakes up to see Hester guarding him, once awake they have a conversation on their parents and Katharine Valentine and then tom drifted back to sleep and dremt about Katharine. When he wakes up in the morning he notices hester shaking him. The Shrike has found them in the woods. They run away and went sprawling but seem to be going in circles. Hester stops and tries to talk to Shrike and tries to figure out why he is hunting her now. Shrike then gets crushed by an airship while tom hawls Hester to safety.
 * Chapter 15:** [|**The Rustwater marshes**]


 * Chapter 16: The Turd Tanks :** Katherine is determined to find out about Hester and her connection with her father Valentine. She travels deep down into the Gut to find Apprentice Pod who has been reallocated to Section 60. Section 60 is an experimental labour unit which is used to find new ways of creating food snacks with detritus, in other words poo. Katherine is horrified and disgusted when a worker (convict) stops working and is zapped by an apprentice engineer and has fallen and sunk beneath the detritus. No one is willing to help, afraid of the consequences, till a young man comes running and yells out to help the poor worker who has sunk down beneath the surface. The young man turns out to be apprentice Pod. As the Katherine approaches she is terribly upset that the worker is down there even when he is sick. After her burst of anger, she finally gets the chance to ask Pod about the night Hester showed up. Pod hesitates then says that he has nothing to say about the night of the attempted assassination and apologises. Katherine ends up leaving very upset and feeling useless at the fact that there are people down in section 60 that were not being taken care of properly and Pod apologises again before she leaves.


 * Chapter 17:** [|**The Pirate Suburb**]


 * Chapter 18: Bevis

Chapter 19: The Sea of Khazak

Chapter 20: The Black Island:** The surviving inhabitants of Tunbridge Wheels ( including Tom, Hester, Chrysler Peavey and Shrike ) set foot on the " Black Island ". While the islands inhabitants loot whats left of the wrecked pirate suburb. Even after all peaveys dreams have been destroyed he stubbornly trudges on in hope of capturing Airhaven and then possibly catching an even bigger town. While Peavey dreams about capturing Airhaven Hester discusses with Tom the great possibility that Airhaven's people will kill Peavey and his crew, save Hester and Tom and send them both to London. Shrike searches for Hester on the sunken town and then continues to look on the island. Just when Peavey and his crew get close to Airhaven the city lifts off into the air out of reach. Peavey stubbornly chases it and then gets stuck in a bog. As he slowly sinks into the deap bog and he cries for help from his crew but nobody helps him. Mungo ( one of his men ) shoots both him and his monkey finishing them off. Both Mungo and Maggs point their guns at Hester and Tom then suddenly Shrike appears.


 * Chapter 21: In the Engineerium

Chapter 22: Shrike

Chapter 23: MEDUSA

Chapter 24: An Agent of the League

Chapter 25: The Historians

Chapter 26: batmunkh Gompa

Chapter 27: Dr Arkengarth Remembers: Katherine is confused and thinks she may be falinng in love with Bevis. Also Katherine finds out the terrible truth about her father. That he killed pndora shaw and her husband thats why Hester wanted to kill Valentine. Katherine is now angry at her father and is running but she doesn't know where to run to.

Chapter 28: A Stranger in the Mountains of Heaven: Tom has realised that Valentine is at Batmunkh Gompa and runto tell miss Fang and Hester straight away.hester and Tom ran to try and find Valentine but heard that he had already set explosives. Tom lost Hester in the smoke and Hester went the wrong way. Tom came out of the smoke to see Miss Fang get stabbed but he couldn't save her. She told Valentine "Hester Shaw will find you. She will find you and -" and then she was gone.

Chapter 29: Going Home: Valentine had just killed Anna Fang after they had battled. Valentine ran off with the 13th Floor Elavator. Tom had finally changed his mind. He had regretted stopping Hester from killing Valentine but tells her he was glad as he wouldnt of met her and she wouldnt get away but now he can help her find him and help her run away after shes is done with Valentine. Hester and Tom hopped onto the Jenny Haniver and set a course west for london. They were going home. Chapter 30: A Hero's Welcome:

Chapter 31: The Eavesdropper

Chapter 32: Chudleigh Pomeroy Sees It Through**

**Chapter 33: Wine and Nibbles and the Dawn of a New Era**
valentine has just found out that there is a fight on tier two and realises that Katherine is there. He is stopped by Chrome as he wants Valentine to stay with him on the the top tier. Tom and hester have just found London and start circling around London.Hester gets onto London. When Chrome finds out he orders the capture of the intruder.


**Chapter 34: Idea for a Fireworks Display

Chapter 35: The Cathedral

Chapter 36: The Shadow of Bones

Chapter 37: The Bird Roads** This is the last chapter where the end of the story happens.