Redsand Canyon chaos is a ladder

Aquene had carefully considered all avenues, and she had discussed it with her husband. He had deferred the decision to her, so it really had just come down to what she looked to get out of her life.
 
The appeal of Epoch was great… it was an opportunity to teach, to keep her sons away from the violence… but Mereo had been her home, her safe haven, and she had scarcely left the canyon since she had arrived in it… she was of greater use there, she felt… when it came down to it, she was a healer, and so she needed to be where the violence was… as gruesome as it was, and as she worried for her sons and her husband, it was the truth of the matter.
 
A healer was needed where the injuries were.
 
And so she sought out @Germanicus, promising to impart her decision on him when it was made, and it had. She would be the next Matrona of Mereo.