That does largely take care of my concerns, yes. Winter's specific problem is college, but college is handily not compulsory - she can wait until things (hopefully?) calm down in Locke and start later, or possibly apply to UNLV in hopes of starting in the spring there. (Or to a school in the third Echo barrier, if one exists... might need to pull up Google Earth and do some research later, cough.)

I think that's everything I need that's mod-powered, at any rate, but if I think of something else I'll edit this. Thanks~