The Adamant's mission. [ she glances back at him. ] This land was prepared for the building. Not a surprise, I suppose, given their pipes.

[ no one assembled aqueducts for anything less than a real settlement. no one could do it if they were without substantive city-building resources. still, it's so far beyond what yennefer can imagine being a hail mary pass that it's hard for her to imagine. ​]


Actually ... [ she walks back towards the shower where she'd come down. the pipes are leaking water into the earth. a little puddle of mud, for now, but it's still trickling out the open pipe that's linked up with the system that runs under and through the showers that hadn't caved in. ]

Not ideal climbing conditions, I'll admit.

[ but it's somewhere to start. ]