"That's when you came to WaterWay?"
"Not at first. I wandered a little, busied my hands at different jobs before I ended up in WaterWay. But the Cradle." Chang Chang shook her head. "They'd never seen a dwarf woman pretty as me who could fight as hard as the boys they bet their coin on."
Chang Chang smiled at Chang Chang's pleased expression. "No one ever tried to make you grow a beard?"
"And they know better than to touch my hair," Chang Chang said.
In the distance, Chang Chang could see the behemoth outline of Ferryman's Haven. Wraiths circled in an endless dance in the water, occasionally swirling up to curl their bodies sinuously around the broken masts of the inverted ship.
