"The neighbors said that Bale hadn't always been a drinker, at least not until the Kurasiti came to the city. That had happened when Jire was only four years old, and her father had found his way to drink ever since. All the older folks said nothing in the whole city had been the same after that, but she didn't know any different. What she did know was that she needed money for food tonight, and her father wasn't going to get it for her."Jire is one girl in a city of thousands; a city ruled by invaders who take everything they can and leave nothing for people like her. But none of that matters for her. Not when Bale can't be bothered to give up drinking long enough to work for a living, or when the need to eat every night outweighs her every other concern. If Jire is going to survive today, just as she has every day that came before it, then she will have to do it just as she has so many times before: alone.
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