That's a big part of why Margaret's presence here is a comfort. She was a taskmaster back home, but nobody ran inventory and rationing like she did. Makes him think maybe next time a catastrophe hits, they'll have a better chance of handling it.

"I'd say... every once in a while. Not often enough to set your watch to. But when it rains, it pours. We had a uh- a flood a while back. The town got picked up by some sailors, and it seemed fine, only their ship was bug infested. Turned out they liked it that way, so much that they wanted to put bugs inside us, too."

There's no hint of Hawk's usual light-heartedness in the telling of it. It still weighs on him.

"Every now and again we get attacks from God knows what. Living constellations, big wolves- I think they told us there was a dragon wandering around a few months back. It's a madhouse."