That strange little foreign nun had started all this, started Adini Smith Bronze and Savini Housekeeper Bronze on this trip, telling Adini she was meant for greater things. Adini didn't give her too much mind, except to worry about the Churchmen finding out she had been consorting with an unbeliever, because she had her own greater things to worry about: her Journeyman exams, finding a job and somewhere to live.

Then she took on the Examination Board on Savini's behalf when her own mistress wouldn't, bending them to her will somehow, when the Examination Board bent to no one except maybe the Church. Of course after that, Savini didn't have any more jobs or homes than she did, and the Industrial Towns don't have any patience with indigents. Without any other prospects, the two women left the town they'd been born and raised in, leaving behind everything and everyone they ever knew. Savini didn't mind so much because she was done with the whole culture of the Industrial Towns, but Adini was quite literally and figuratively lost.

And then she loses Savini too.

Bereft of everything and everyone she knows, Adini wanders the world, hoping for a place of her own, and to find Savini again.