Jone nods, realizes a nod can't actually be seen, and explains: "Yes. Videreyn has stone walls meant to bastion their crooked city, but the wood doors were rotten even last year. If better minds-- the sort I have never seen housed in that city-- have seen them replaced, a backup plan will be required."

She muses on that, on the Videreyn of old, on what it used to mean.

"The sewers can be traversed, but not in all this metal. Mark me: I do not complain, only speak of practicality."