“Still, what a pressing issue: a capital city rendered unusable due to too many zombies. You’d think it’d be top-of-priority for resolution.”
There’s a perpetually annoyingly jokey tone to Strange’s voice, a pithiness that hadn’t ingratiated him with the locals even all the way back to his and Vanya’s first mission together to Cledwyn. But perhaps Vanya’s learned this much about the sorcerer since then: Strange is in fact taking this seriously, despite that light tone.
“I suppose…” he muses, as they walk. “When aliens attacked New York and left so much in rubble, reconstruction took ages afterward. Budgetary concerns balanced against all the other running costs of keeping a city going. Entire new departments had to be created to deal with all the debris and alien technology — like unvetted magical artifacts, strewn everywhere — and the construction contracts were a nightmare. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised at the delay. But I had no idea our preceding organisation was responsible,” directly or indirectly? “for the mess, though.”
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There’s a perpetually annoyingly jokey tone to Strange’s voice, a pithiness that hadn’t ingratiated him with the locals even all the way back to his and Vanya’s first mission together to Cledwyn. But perhaps Vanya’s learned this much about the sorcerer since then: Strange is in fact taking this seriously, despite that light tone.
“I suppose…” he muses, as they walk. “When aliens attacked New York and left so much in rubble, reconstruction took ages afterward. Budgetary concerns balanced against all the other running costs of keeping a city going. Entire new departments had to be created to deal with all the debris and alien technology — like unvetted magical artifacts, strewn everywhere — and the construction contracts were a nightmare. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised at the delay. But I had no idea our preceding organisation was responsible,” directly or indirectly? “for the mess, though.”