Amiss (Napan)

Amiss was a Napan sailor.Deadhouse Landing, Dramatis Personae
She was described as young, wiry and full of nervous energy.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 3, UK HB p.65 Amiss was petite, with dark eyes, a pert nose and hair hacked very short and the youngest of the Napans around Surly.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 5, UK HB p.96/97 
==In Deadhouse Landing==
Amiss was part of the renegade Napan crew working at Smiley's in Malaz City. During a meeting Surly had with Dancer, Amiss passed on an all clear from perimeter guards.
Amiss accompanied Dancer into the city to confront Geffen's thugs about a shipment of liquor and unintentionally let slip that she had been with Surly for a long time. From which statement Dancer deduced Surly's aristocratic background as Sureth. After watching Dancer dispatch a large group of attackers, Amiss asked if he would teach herDeadhouse Landing,Chapter 5, UK HB p.96-99 close-in fighting.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 5, UK HB p.109-110 
Amiss informed Cartharon Crust of a batch of new recruits meant for the Twisted.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 10, UK HB p.190 
Cartharon sailed out to join Mock's Malazan privateer fleet with the Twisted, while Surly remained in the city. Crust insisted that Amiss, as well as Shrift and Tocaras, stay behind with Surly.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 11, UK HB p.215 
When Lee and her gang stormed Smiley's, they found it deserted apart from a dead Amiss who was laid out on the bar counter with legs and arms carefully arranged. Lee realized that the girl had been killed from behind by a thrust to the heart, probably earlier that evening. Lee believed that Amiss had been killed by the assassin mage hired by Geffen, a young Cowl.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 12, UK HB p.229/233
The death of Amiss left the other Napan's shaken.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 12, UK HB p.237/238 Her body was wrapped in canvas sail cloth and sewn tight. Then Surly, Shrift, Tocaras, Urko and Grinner, as well as the mage Nedurian, took a dory with the corpse out to sea, well beyond the harbour. Surly and Tocaras lifted the body to the gunwhale while Surly said a few words. After which they consigned Amiss to the deep.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 13, UK HB p.259
It later became clear that the Napan renegades had been betrayed by Shrift and that Amiss had actually been killed by her and not by Cowl. Shrift had killed the girl because Amiss had become suspicious and also so that Amiss' death would instigate a blood-feud between the Napan renegades and Geffen. The idea being the elimination of as many as possible of the Napan renegades.Deadhouse Landing,Chapter 18, UK HB p.351
==Notes and references==
Category:Females
Category:Napans
Category:Sailors