It was one in the morning. Everything was quiet and peaceful everywhere else, but here at Water Dock, things had only just warmed up. It was the most chaotic time of the day, when all kinds of colorful characters began to show up.
Joanna had come to Water Dock on her own, with nothing but a 'top-secret" map of the area that she bought at a high price from the second-hand market. She headed straight to Carmine Pawnshop.
Water Dock had indeed lived up to its reputation. It was every bit as much of the lawless, "no man's land" it was rumored to be, where burning, looting, robbing, and killing took place at almost every corner. Anything that was too sickening to be found in civilized society was nothing but a normal occurrence here. It was truly a dreadful place to be.
The whole area of Water Dock was actually not that large, but it was divided into three main zones- upstream, midstream, and downstream.
