"Very," Yelena agrees, amiably cynical as she always is on the relative sense and worth of the human race.

She places her own candles, evenly spaced, working in the opposite direction from Katrina so that they'll meet approximately in the middle. It's more efficient that way, and if there's no significance to where and how the candles are placed, beyond that they form a circle, efficiency is, to her, the key.

"Unless you're hiding a few wheelbarrows of salt, there won't be enough to do any lasting damage. But we can clean it up anyway, if you brought some shovels."