"Once I finish med school and become a doctor?" Kathy said. "Then it's just a cycle of internships and trying to pay off loans until I'm dead."

And, like Anders, she paid no real attention to those words, far more intrigued by his book and explanation than the frustrations of her future.

"Was Leo from Kirkwall, too? Or just Carys?" she asked. "Have you discovered any compelling reasons?"

Beyond a clinic for the downtrodden in a mineshaft?