[ she chews the thought over. plucks at the fibers of the corn husk, a familiar and soothing fidget. few cultivated corn in the wilds, but that did not stop it growing wild in some of the wetter parts of the desert. ]
It wasn't as bad, before. [ she shuts her eyes, trying to remember life before exile. ] There weren't many of us in my clan. Maybe a hundred ... Not like here.
[ and then, of course, there were the nearly twenty years of silence in between. lack of exposure, and she was too sensitive to it now. would she have ever been able to return to the clan like this, she wonders. ]
IT'S OKAY FR
[ she chews the thought over. plucks at the fibers of the corn husk, a familiar and soothing fidget. few cultivated corn in the wilds, but that did not stop it growing wild in some of the wetter parts of the desert. ]
It wasn't as bad, before. [ she shuts her eyes, trying to remember life before exile. ] There weren't many of us in my clan. Maybe a hundred ... Not like here.
[ and then, of course, there were the nearly twenty years of silence in between. lack of exposure, and she was too sensitive to it now. would she have ever been able to return to the clan like this, she wonders. ]