Wren

Palms Port people, right? I've heard the name. Can't help you there.

Gambling's not my world. Ask someone who's been to the gambling islands.

Catspaw gossip. I don't know cat-folk traders. Ships stop here sometimes, ask them.

Cat island chain. That's all I know. They say it's got all sorts of sailors.

Sailors talk about the Speckle Humps and pirates. I haven't been out that far.

One of the cat islands. Sellswords ship out of there, they say.

Another cat island. Storytellers, I'm told. I've never sailed out that way.

Benjamin's at the gallery now. He spends most days alone up there.

I've flown as high as I can get. Nothing up there but cold. That's all I know about sky islands.

Benjamin keeps the light at the gallery. It pulls fish up at night.

Gambling den somewhere. I don't know the gambling islands.

Palms Port has teachers for that kind of thing. I'm not one of them.

Wind's clean till evening. You'll want to be inland after that.

I'm up over the water every morning. I know before you do.

The shore gives up rope, floats, wood. Pick them up and someone buys them.

Marry worries a lot. She's got reason to.

I've seen Tommy at the cave mouth at dawn. He carries his dead father's sword.

Twenty people is the right size. Enough faces, not too many crowding you.

There's a hum from the hill at dusk. Tommy's heard it too.

Tommy carries it into the caves at dawn. His father's been dead a while now.

Far kingdom across the sea. People mention it on the quay. That's all I know.

Somewhere inland, past any water I fly. I don't know it.

That's in scholomance country somewhere. I don't know inland waters.

That's scholomance talk. Not my world.

Some story from inland. Sailors mention it sometimes. That's all I know.

Della cuts hair. She wants to get at my feathers. I won't sit for it.

You can sell the gems the water brings up. There are buyers on every port.

Victoria's king. I've heard the name. That's the depth of it.

A cat groomer out on the Creels, I've heard. Never met her.

NCS moves hulls and keeps the ledger. A dockhand can tell you more than I can.

Victoria royalty. I've heard the name and nothing else.

Victoria's queen. That's all I know about her.

I fly the tideline every morning. See what the sea threw back.

Work mostly. There's enough on the shore if you're willing to find it.