Vinegar didn't travel to the Cloudsong much; the clan had few dealings in Wind, particularly now, and she'd never been big on travel for travel's sake. In fact it was only for the clan's sake that she did it now. Lorenz had been in Fang's office nearly every day this week quietly freaking out about his new position and asking just
what was he supposed to do with only one other engineer? The place was sure to fall apart! Only with less emphasis, of course.
Fang's attempts to calm him had only made things worse, and he had made several long and technical speeches about flooded maintenance tunnels that neither he nor Ilhadro could safely navigate, and eventually Fang had come to Vinegar and asked her to please find them a third engineer, preferably from Wind to avoid the breathing problem, and preferably as soon as possible. Which was why, while Fang dealt with a flock of uncooperative diplomats, Vinegar was accompanying Sylvester on one of his mercantile trips. She didn't have any particular insight into that process, but she didn't want to make the trip alone.
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