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Well ... whatever the answer is to that, you cannot imagine that it is pertinent to you right now. But is there anything else that is? Already, your memory of the specifics is getting a little hazy, but it does occur to you that these men could have been called in before ... the unpleasantness down at Oiler's Wharf. It feels like it was so long ago, but the Master Abbot - or was it the Inquisitor attending him - told you that a short-lived Construct made of human remains had been recovered. And as it follows that a short-lived Construct must have been made by a local Witch - your father, almost certainly - the Master Abbot could have summoned 'flocks of chickens' to augment a Hunt soon to be in the offing. Or they could have been summoned on account of the Refinery. Huh.
If Tinlance turned out to be fairly far away, then the fact that the Mitigators are already here would mean that they were summoned before anything happened to Gothorum-One. But for all you know, Tinlance could be just a few old-miles up the road from the Mount. You sigh as rain continues to fall, perhaps a little heavier than before on your picknick-parasol, though the sun is still shining through, and you would still characterize this as a light shower. As you stride towards the top of Spinster's Street, you try to roll your shoulder a bit, as much as your corset allows, in a bid to relieve your battered left arm. As you do, your head dips down a bit, and your eyes wander over to a gutter, slowly filling, steadily flowing - and all of a sudden, you realize that right now, you are looking at a prospect even worse for you than the presence of Mitigators on - or above - the Mount.
This rain will flow into the sewers - which you were planning on using to get your father's work and equipment out of the city. If this rain doesn't break ... oh, Maker's Mercy, what if the rain doesn't break? What if it gets worse? What are the sewers like now ... and what will they be like by the time you get back to the Belfry? This is another Trial, it has to be. But even as you are offering up a silent prayer, your mind is elsewhere, desperately wondering how you are going to overcome this.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> If the sewers aren't going to work, you need to know as soon as possible so you can figure out an alternative. As soon as you have a conveyance arranged and have once again taken possession of your hand cart, you are looking into it.
> The rain will continue to fall or it will break. The sewers will be a viable avenue of escape, or they won't. If sewer doesn't work ... well, whatever the case, it is out of your hands - but there are other things that you still can do. Focus on those, once you are done with buying the coach and team and retrieving your cart from The Hooded Heads.
