See those ruins over there, the shattered, wind-worn cairns peeking from the tall prairie-grass? Let me tell you how I built those towers, some two thousand years ago, what conspired to bring them down, and why nobody’s asked me to remake them since.
Josh: he/they
Score 3. Intriguing premise, but the book describing itself as ‘rambling’ makes me worry that the work will not respect my time.