Chapter 21The first few months after Engalla left her mother’s Hogann had been difficult for her. If she traveled to one of the big cities she could probably make some money or find a job in a restaurant or café, but prices were too high there and the people were not happy. She would have a hard time finding friends. There were also so many homeless that she’d probably end up sleeping under a bridge or on a sidewalk grate.
So she stayed in the countryside where she found small jobs to earn credits to buy food and she could find safer places to sleep out of the wind and rain. People were always asking her who she was and where she came from, so she made up the story that she had been living halfway across the country but that her mother had died and she had no other relatives.
She had fin
