Mental illness. Ravka, Ketterdam, the Shu Han, and Fjerda are a far cry from recognizing such things in their people. But she finds it intriguing, regardless.

“What sort of illness affects the mind so much it’s a specialty?” Depression? Anxiety? She has them in spades, but she wouldn’t call them by those names, exactly. Such is the life of someone from vaguely Industrial Revolution Russia.