[ Moonlight is what illuminates Kael as he leans in closer to the seeing stone, quiet for a moment even after Enver has stopped speaking to just look.

He's been told a few times now by his friends that staring at people without blinking makes them nervous, and so he tries not to cast his gaze so intensely on the other man for too long. Not that he really has a handle yet on what's too long and what's not long enough. ]

Slow. I thought we might have made more progress by now, but there was a shortage of able and willing workers.

Those who wanted to help the most had ailments they were unable to walk off. Some of the more 'in one piece' workers left the city without a glance back.

But... we do make progress even if it does seem to be painfully static some days.