On the Streets

Before the infections...Before finding a place with a new family in the Weave...Chels is a twelve-year-old orphan living on the streets of the fabled Spire City. Beetle-drawn carriages pass her by, and chained singers on the roofs sing above her head, but Chels has no time for such wonders or cruelties. She must survive, begging coin by coin.As her hopes are dashed one by one, she keeps running into a boy her own age. He calls her Tatter Girl, and he's probably some kind of criminal, but he seems to have found a place where he belongs. Could she still hope for the same?