Adrestia surveyed the rubble that passed for a city in District 5. Though it was devoid of wealth she reflected that it wasn’t devoid of happiness. Swarms of children played games, while young men sprinted around each other in search of treats. A group of women were playing a game that involved kicking a ball. Everyone around her wore the kind of smiles one would only expect from the rich. Were in not for the foul stench one could be forgiven for mistaking this random day on the streets of the slums for a wonderful fair of some kind.

But when the Seer looked deeper, she saw all the scum and villainy capable by society. She saw young men perpetrate violence one another, she saw young women abducted on the street to be pressed in service as whores. She saw men stealing from one another. She witnessed drunks ejected by strong men from pubs, only in this environment can ignorance truly thrive, the Seer thought to herself. A hundred million police in a hundred years couldn’t make this area safe, a hundred million scrubbings couldn’t make the area clean. District 5 should clearly be avoided she thought to herself.

This awful balance is why Liath is present she continued in thought as she continued on in her way.