Originally published in shorter form in Clarion SF (NYC, 1972).
In the first book of the Kencyrath, Jame, a young woman missing her memories, struggles out of the haunted wastes into Tai-tastigon, the old, corrupt, rich & god-infested city between the mountains & the lost lands of the Kencyrath. Jame's struggle to regain her strength, her memories & the resources to travel to join her people, the Kencyrath, drag her into several relationships, earning affection, respect, bitter hatred &, as always, haunting memories of friends & enemies dead in her wake.