[ Even gods can have habits, it seems. Preferences. Places where they like to settle, echoes that they like to answer. Steve has reflected on this before as a reminder that despite his appearance, he does still have lingering hints of his humanity trapped beneath the impenetrable marble.

Memories are another big part of that, which is part of the reason that Steve tries to check in with his fellow Avengers when he can. They can continue to remind each other, over and over, so that the important things don't fade. ]

Around the Free Cities too?

[ He's surprised to hear that, though there's only a slight hint of it in his voice. Maybe he shouldn't be, though, since there's no reason for Rocket to remain in one territory anymore, and with his habits, of course people in the Free Cities would have started to make offerings to him too. ]

I'd like to see them, yeah. One day.

[ Of course, with gods, they can make plans and then not follow through on them for a few decades or so.

Steve moves to study some of the farming contraptions, finding them foreign in a way he can't quite explain. Probably just because he spends so much time in the Cities. As he lightly runs his hand over the carefully crafted materials, he asks: ] Have things been quiet here? I don't come out to Solvunn as much, except to check on the Witchwood.

[ And even that is further north. ]