Explore some of the key locations that form the backbone of the allegory. Below are the central sites of power, resistance, and revelation that shape the journey of Fox and Kit.  

These locations are the foundational institutions that maintain the "Curtain."

1. The Curtain: The manufactured boundary of reality. It's the book's central metaphor.

2. Owl-Spire: The ivory tower of ideology. Where the official story is decreed.

3. Mind-Stump: The factory of consent. Where young minds are shaped for compliance.

4. Sweet-Mill: The engine of pacification. Represents addictive consumption and alienated labor.

5. Mint-Tree: The temple of fiat currency. The source of the "Golden Leash" of debt.

How the system extracts, watches, and burdens.

6. Pattern-Web (or Web-Loom): The neural hub of surveillance. Represents data collection and behavioral control.

7. Tilt-Mine: The ecological sacrifice zone. Shows the violent end-stage of resource extraction (the destruction of Wild-Grove).

8. Knot-Hall: The bureaucratic labyrinth. Where justice and access are defeated by procedure.

The geography of doubt, discovery, and alternative.

9. Sly-Path: The path of independent inquiry. Fox's first lonely step away from the "Free-Way."

10. True-Glen / New-Glen: The archetype & practice of freedom. Essential. The proof that another way is possible.

11. Spine-Ridge: The vantage point of perspective. Where Fox and Kit see the third crater, revealing the truth behind "Crater Day."