Tabby Malloy is the local prostitute in Port Dechantagne and appears as a minor character in The Drache Girl.  An older, married Tabby also makes an appearance in The Two Dragons.

Walking north on the gravel road, which was officially Bainbridge Clark Street, Saba passed a road crew of five lizardmen and their human foreman.  They were moving very slowly in the cool morning air.  Within a month, most would stop showing up for work at all, and the repair of roads, building of sewers, and installation of gas lines would be suspended for the winter as the few Lizzies who did show up would be put to work on the docks.  Saba thought it fitting that the reptiles were repairing Bainbridge Clark Street, as Bainbridge Clark the man had been instrumental in stopping the lizardman army of King Ssithtsutsu, when it had attacked the colony.  He had later been Saba’s sergeant in the militia, and a friend.  Sadly, Saba’s first call as a constable had been to find Clark’s dead body, in bed, at the home of Miss Tabby Malloy; better than taking a lizardman spear or being eaten by dinosaurs.

Bainbridge Clark Street didn’t actually end at the Emergency Wall, because there was a road on the other side of the wall, and it too was called Bainbridge Clark Street, but the two were separated by the thirty foot tall structure.  Thirty feet to the left though was a small unobtrusive door that had been cut into the wall about two years before, after a particularly nasty problem with tyrannosaurs.  The door had been placed there specifically to allow emergency workers to move from one side of the wall to the other, without having to go all the way to the town square and through the big gate.  Relatively few had keys to the locked door, but Saba was one of those who did.  He unlocked the door, passed through, and then locked it once again with the key.

On this side of the wall, the road sloped down a hill toward the dock area.  A few small buildings, offices mostly separated it from the shoreline, while on the right were numerous warehouses and supply buildings.  At the top of the hill, Saba stopped to take in the view.  The Mirsannan freighter S.S. Meninia Impertinenta was docked and two large cranes were lifting freight from its cargo hold and setting it down onto the ground.  Half a dozen lizardman work crews were ferrying the freight from there to two different warehouses.

Walking down the hill a little way, the young constable turned from the bay and walked between a large warehouse on the left and a long row of small apartments on the right.  This area was the lowest rent district in Port Dechantagne.  The little two-story, four apartment buildings were constructed all of wood with dimensions of twelve by thirty six feet.  Each of the apartments had one room, either with a wood-burning stove, or a fireplace, and the entire block of apartments—one hundred buildings, four hundred apartments—were serviced by a block of twenty water closets.  When the apartments had originally been built, they had been built with outhouses.  Two years ago, these had been replaced by small block houses, each of which had six WCs and all of which had the latest running water facilities.  Saba stepped inside one of the WCs to relieve himself.  He luxuriously washed his hands and face, and then stepped outside to find a woman waiting.  She was slightly older than he was, about twenty, with bright red hair and a brightly painted face.  Under her pink dress, he could see she clearly wore no bustle.

“Miss Tabby Malloy,” said Saba.  “I was just thinking of you this morning.”

“Oh?  What were you thinking about me?”  She put her hand on her hip and struck a pose.  She really was attractive, considering—clean, nice, and as far as Saba knew, not a thief.

“I was just thinking about… well, about how pretty you are.”

“You know I would do a pretty young lad like you, a virgin and all, for free.”

“And you know I’m saving myself for marriage.  But it’s good to see you’re doing well.  Have a lovely day.”

“You have a lovely day yourself, lad,” she said.  “I expect to be seeing you soon, whether it’s before marriage or after.”