The day that Zhenzi was found out by the Vessel had started just as inconspicuously as any other ever since she had, by sheer luck, secured herself a job in the tavern instead of a beating for shamelessly ransacking the dumpster behind it along with Cash.
It is funny how hunger eventually obliterates everything else, including position and power. The Ruhavkian might have been a prominent soldier once, back at home, but after such a catastrophic journey and a week of near starvation while fruitlessly roaming those cold shores, his glory days must have seemed to him like a thousand years ago.
By the time they had fearfully wandered into the busy village, severely malnourished and wrapped in rags, the intimidating man, whose mere sight had once made Zhenzi shiver, was practically gone. So
