24 | Putting one’s foot in it
Their conversation twisted and turned, sometimes only tangentially connecting to the next subject. “...when we emerged, every house on the street was flattened, but our house.” Jackie popped some food in her mouth as she closed out her tale. Verin was utterly rapt, the weather event she had described had sounded like something they experienced in his home world, but his people used great and complicated artificers to curtail them. The idea of it running rampant in this world to reap its destruction was astounding. “And your home still standing was deemed to be divine intervention?” Verin found it an interesting concept, an all-knowing and exacting god. Of his world and people, while the general belief that there had been celestial beings of some description, there was no belief in divin
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