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Hello! I'm looking for a book about a young girl adopted? apprenticed? by an older, somewhat cranky man. I can't remember if he was a mage. The most important aspect of the book was her exploration of a rather odd subterranean world. I remember (I think) something about knives, shopping in a marketplace, and maybe a basket. She had a rather bleak existence, with some sort of redemption at the end?