"I have no idea," Cliff admitted. "To any of that. But if you go and find out and they need more help, well, I'm good at manual labor."

He wasn't even trying to be self-deprecating there, he just knew that he was pretty strong as a guy of his size and body type went, and he knew how to be careful with heavy lifting and doing work. He'd never been afraid to help his mom dig out her garden, with or without geomancy--though the latter did make it easier.