Caleb thought it was less about the trauma of the last month and a half. Wild cultists and haunting dreams were nothing specifically new for him. Elevators, though? A cin-ema? All the noise in this place. All of those things were very new, and he wasn't sure that he was adapting very well to it.

"I am sorry for your loss," Caleb said. He knew that people could, did, disappear, because it was a rubric of their arrival--but Elcin spoke about it differently. That made Caleb's heart lurch uncomfortably. Could that happen to anyone?

"I will make a valiant attempt, if it means I can peruse your supplies." That was only half kidding. Knowing what sort of herbs were being grown was important. At some point, he would need to replenish his components with fresh ones, even if he wasn't going through them at the same rate as normal. "And my--my friend will like to come along as well. I will show it to him."