If he'd founded the city with such principles that it survived? Yes, Cain's skill in that location very much might become useful. Raine nodded agreement.

"I have to wonder if something similar would have been the case, had our world been allowed to grow naturally," Raine said aloud, not quite a simply idle wondering. "Some things remain, of course, and the evolution in certain forms is easy to see, but for the most part..."

She shook her head, looked down at the map again. Italy, and Ireland. "And Egypt?"