Unsettled times is one way to put it.

So is an errand in the north. Bastien's curiosity is piqued, a creature lifting its head and sniffing the air, but he only reaches crossbody to pat Ellis on the broad shoulder with his dominant hand.

"This is why people find Wardens so attractive," he says. (Do people find Wardens so attractive? Surely some of them do, in between resenting and/or not seeing the point of them.) "All that mystery."