Kept her father's ledgers at sixteen because the clerk could not add.
FROM
the mayor's house, New Nilemah
HOW THEY LOOK
Ink on her fingers, hair cut short with kitchen scissors, a pewter pin on a cloak too plain for a mayor's daughter.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Ask me something that isn't about my father and I might answer.”
“Down here at least the rats know what they owe.”
BEFORE THE TALE
8 years ago · the town hall
Kept her father's ledgers at sixteen because the clerk could not add. She found the rat-catcher's line struck out.
a year ago · the mayor's house
Refused a wool baron's son twice. Her father accepted for her the third time.
this year · the river grate
Went down the river grate on purpose with the old bill in her pocket, to pay her father's debt herself.
this year · the Fountain below
Drank from the Fountain and found the Piper kinder than anyone upstairs.