( Is a honey badger another magical creature of this land, or something shared by both, like bears and horses? What are they? It’s a question for another time. )

I don’t know the mathematical probability of things being truly random, but there’s usually some kind of logic or pattern, even if we don’t have the viewpoint to see it.

( Like being drawn into a death match orchestrated by an ancient deity. There was bound to be some reason all of them were the ones subject to it, some pattern and probability. The scary thing was the growing concern that a mortal mind might never be able to comprehend it.
A week ago she couldn’t have told you when she’d even spared a thought to the Old Gods. They hadn’t been real.

If it was random that she was one of the people drawn into it, that might make it worse. )

Um— yes. My primary interest was mechanisms, but infrastructure demands after the last war meant I was doing a lot of work on mechanisms alongside rebuilding, new buildings, maintenance. Sometimes you need to figure out what the original purpose of something was so you can figure out the root cause of a new problem, like if catacombs have been converted to a sewer system.

What about you? Are you doing something different in the city to when you were in the mountains?