"Stick with me," AJ promised, "and I'll sort them out. There's only a couple we need to figure out, and we only need to figure out how likely they are to let us work with them... and how to take from them if it's the only option there is. Some of these assholes are clever, and some of them do shit you wouldn't expect from the looks of it. This place... they've only been here a month or so, and it's already pretty organized. That's not human work, all of it."

She cast him a shit-eating grin. "Anyways, I think you'll like the pug-nosed Norwegian lady who's been building things out of ice. So far as I've heard she can do it just like you do, like magic."