[ it raises hackles, that lacking term -

hardly a newcomer's fault. even so, his tone shifts brusque. petulant apprentice, meet dickbag professor: ]

Mapping the Fade is a fool's errand of generations. We war with one of the men to try. If you wish to fling yourself back into a Rift, you won't be the first, and I bid you every blessing -

[ but. lakshmi might not have returned at all, and a half-dozen with her, ]

But the chief consistency of incaution is getting others killed. Restrict your curiousity to your sleeping hours, and you'll spy landmarks enough.