Tress is a lower-class girl on Diggen’s Point, a tiny rock that barely qualifies as an island, but whose industry – salt mining – is too vitally important to the kingdom’s safety to allow anyone to immigrate elsewhere. Salt, in fact, is one of the few things (alongside silver) that keep people safe from the spores that fall from the moons and make up the seas that cover the world. Tress is a window washer, a collector of cups from faraway places, an adept bargainer, […]