For as long as she can remember, Asheena has lived on the streets of Korvosa, and like so many others like her, she worked for Lamm to earn her meal and roof for each day.
Lamm was a harsh master, who did not tolerate poor results. Beatings were frequent, and Asheena's tendency to wander off to explore the streets did not help matters.
But she couldn't help herself. The city seemed to call out to her. She loved to just get lost in the crowd, wander off into new streets, meet new people. She enjoyed talking to people, and most seemed to trust her easily. And sometimes she liked to just sit quietly and observe the way the people around her went on about their lives, learning about their routines and their worries, their dreams and their secrets.
Gamm eventually realized how useful these habits of her could be, and started asking her to observe or get to know specific targets. She couldn't understand his particular interest in some people, but he was overall more pleased with her results, even if he still got mad at her when she failed to uncover anything he found interesting.
But one day, her curiosity and tendency to listen in on people's conversations turned nearly fatal. She overheard Lamm talking about her with some of his shady friends, and decided to listen more closely. What she heard was horrifying. She heard Gamm boasting about killing her family, and how it had not only brought him a nice profit back then, but was paying off even now with all the juicy information she was bringing him. Anger took her, and she threw herself at him in rage, but was easily stopped. Gamm was furious, and her punishment was several times worse than any previous one, and he left her for dead in a garbage heap.
She would probably have died, had it not been for a kind witch she had befriended during her escapades and who lived nearby. She tended to her wounds, and came to a startling discovery. Asheena seemed to share a bond, not unlike the one a witch might have with her patron. But Asheena's bond seemed to be, for lack of better terms, with the city itself.
With a better understanding of her abilities, Asheena again turned her attention to Gamm and her family. She knew he was her best lead to her family's identity, and she wanted revenge. Asheena started to gather as much information as she could about him and his current whereabouts. Apparently, she was not the only one who had reasons to look for the man. If they could all team up, she was confident that their next confrontation would go quite differently than the previous one.
