Gideon grins right back at the unfamiliar person—they must be new, she gets to know everyone by face, if not by name—and waves him over. "You won't see me turning down free help," Gideon says. Besides, Thirteen always like it when they help each other. It'll make it go easier for both of them, so check and check. Bonus points she gets to meet someone new.

"This reminds me of the game we played at Amrita's summer camp a couple years ago. I got a really good axe out of it," Gideon says. She has her two handed sword on her back and a rapier at her waist and another sword flying through the air after her. So it hardly looks like she needs an axe.

"I may not be a classic Ninth House cav, but my list has me ready to load up panniers and more," Gideon says. She means it. When Amrita says survival, that always means survival.