"Couldn't live there if it wasn't, could I?" She grins at him. "But yeah, it's pretty good. We had an architect an' a couple of builders an' that with the first lot who joined, which got us started. Lea got shot a couple of months in, but she left the plans and we've got it pretty well sorted these days."

The alleyway opens out, at this point, into a little enclave of market stalls whose contents are markedly more sharp and metallic than the rest, and whose proprietors are generally more masculine if not necessarily more male. Nix looks rather like a child in a toy shop.