Something stirs in the darkness of a rainy city, creeping through the gutters and hiding in the shadows.
Branded and abandoned, she crawls through the alleyways of the forgotten streets, looking for life and meaning in a city given shape by a spiderweb of competing interests and the lingering legacy of a long-distant tragedy.

This story is set in the Parahumans universe, created by John C. McCrae, though no prior familiarity with the setting is needed.