The next morning, the first thing Isabella encounters after her breakfast is a petitioner from a farm settlement to the south who needs rain.

She doesn't have to go - she still has several days of the assignment-free week - but no one else is jumping on it. She gets a number of miles and an exact compass heading and then she hunts up Micaiah to see if he wants to come along. He doesn't know the prayers, but she could hold him and he could listen.