River Blade, The

For Cass, it’s a place to escape the dull grind of her lonely life, a place where she can run its twisted laneways and live out her violent fantasies. For Detective Poe, it’s a beat to walk, a dark, dangerous environment to hunt down his clues and get closer to whoever, or whatever, is haunting its streets. For Adlai, sitting drunk in a bar on the border between the River and the real world, it’s a place to watch his creation transform from a theatre of heroism into, hopefully, something more…