"Really how could you ever have been so thoughtless and not planned just for us, every second, when you were picking what things to learn?" Jo's mouth has smoothed for serious toward a smile, and detoured right into a smirk that sets her copper eyes bright. She knows how to do this kind of easy banter at least.

It's a good kind of favor to have, especially when they have no clue what will actually come at the next. No one knows why it's abandoned, or why the creek is suddenly suddenly rising, she'd hazard already, given they haven't even had any rainstorms to proceed it. But that's all she has any clue about, and it could be something else.