The Fool does not have much occasion to visit the Dreaming Bridge anymore--at least, not prior to the storm that swept through Aifaran and left so many of its inhabitants reeling. He considers himself fortunate that, unlike many of the city's residents, he had a place to go when his apartment 'drowned.'

Maintaining his small business without a studio is proving to be difficult, however, and so it is with this goal in mind that he arrives at the Bridge with a small selection of his carvings. Not to sell them, of course, but to put them on display. Exposure is better than obsolescence.

He is in the process of arranging three small bibiru carvings on a windowsill when he spots Nita at her research in the common room, and offers her a wry smile. "Are you a new arrival to our illustrious archipelago?" he asks.