Need follows. There's something ungainly about her very medieval-seeming presence in a modern-style kitchen, especially since in an enclosed space the faint scorched odor that clings to her is more evident. She also tends to end up in the way, no matter how many times she moves.

"I see," she says, currently half blocking the sink and looking, not even at it, at the cabinets. "Was that luck, carelessness, does luck cause carelessness?"

When Tarma and Kethry had had that Lurchan talisman they'd been able to mitigate some of the effects by being absolutely exacting in checking and re-checking everything but there had been a few times when they'd spontaneously forgotten or assumed something, Need remembers.