Piperka

Cities have a magic all their own. Take a few wrong turnings and you can come across a place you never knew existed within half a mile of your home.

And perhaps, if you're lucky, you'll even find your way back again.

Kaspall isn't here, though you can get there from here, and from other places too.

That's the first of this city's problems. People keep turning up, people from other worlds. They can't speak the language. They don't know the culture. They don't have a clue how to get back where they came from. So what do you do with them?

When you're alone in a foreign country, having to wash dishes for a living isn't the worst that can happen. There are still bills to pay, after all.

The worst that can happen?

That would be Kaspall's other problem