Tideglass opened with bells.
At dawn on the first day, the bell on the harbor master's tower rang out, and the whole waterfront came alive! Wine stalls threw open their shutters. Music started up down the harbor road. The smell of grilling fish rolled across the water.
[Ah, how festive.]
The opening market was the busiest the district got all year, and Katarina had timed everything to it.
She stood at the Montecardi stall on the main quay with forty-three cold containers stacked behind her and a crowd already gathering. Vessa was at her shoulder. Eva had sent a letter wishing her luck and demanding numbers on how the launch did. Brynn and Seris were somewhere in the crowd.
[Showtime, I guess.]
She'd done a hundred product launches in her last life. The nerves never fully went away, and she'd stopped expecting them to.
