"A reasonable question." Compared to the dream, the chaos of Deer Country has taken on a much gentler tone. They can all feel it. "Perhaps it's not meant so much as entertainment or challenge... perhaps it's simply an element of the cyclical nature of this world. A repeating pattern, attuned to the changing of the seasons. It seems that the gods and their magic, in this place, turn with the calendar itself."

It's... almost unsettlingly familiar, put like that. Comforting to think that the Pthumerians are little more than forces of nature, moving in their own grand circles.