Edda Vossk

An Old Lances outrider held in Hewngate's undercroft — Sevrin Vossk's niece, taken because the old guard pay best for their own, and the reason a retaking is coming.

Edda rode escort the day Hewngate's gate went up as a chain, and she has been in the undercroft since, because Bron Coldhand knows exactly whose blood she carries. She has not given him the satisfaction of breaking; she keeps a tally of the garrison's watches scratched in the mortar, in case anyone honest ever comes down the stair. She would rather be cut free than bought free — to Edda the difference is the whole of the oath — but she will take either, and she will remember which.