The 3 Seas

It turned out that Jace did not have even the smallest difficulty wrangling the position of cook for himself. He was not all hampered in his attempts to sample the better of the foodstuffs that were brought aboard the Chaser. He was not thanked for his efforts, either in preparing the food or for having procured it in the first place.
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Jace looked at the shopkeeper in confusion, but the man just returned his bewildered expression before going back to bluster at the woman again.
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Inside the store, Jace found a tall scaly woman dressed in black clothes, of a general style he recognized as having been fairly common in Keeper’s Cove: things that had once been fancy but now weren’t. She seemed to be quite engaged with the shopkeeper, a squat and spiny fellow.
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Jace felt excited when he first set off for the bookbinder’s. He was good at things like directions, and he kept them in his head rather than focusing on the strange and unfamiliar surroundings. The streets of Montport were narrow as only a few short alleys between buildings in Keeper’s Cove had been, and they were long and winding. Though the sky was blue, the sun was nowhere to be seen and the streets were shadowed.
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