"Exactly. Although existence is nearly always easier to bear if I have a project to give my attention." You're just not meant for idleness, Petryushka, Andrey used to say, in happier times before Vienna and Paris and the Town-on-Gorkhon. That mind of your always works better if it has a problem to whir away on. Perhaps it was even true.

"Think about who you'd like to have in it," he reminds Fever. "It's alright if you want to add more people later, but having a list would at least tell me where to start."