[Don't eat? Alucard raises an eyebrow slowly.] Is that so?

[He'll wait for an explanation.]

Really it came back to the government itself, so far as I can recall. But I may have been too focused on the immediate reconstruction efforts, such as it was and as it continues with some performance venues.

[Construction isn't an instant thing, after all.]

I go into the desert if I need complete quiet. It's nice out there, and I can see how the woods would let you get away from the gods. We've had far too much of that lately, and I've enough of it from home.