Chapter Seventeen
Only two days’ trek from the ravine, the Storm had found a camping site that would suit them for the winter. Although they were accustomed to making a similar circuit around Broad Plain each year, they regularly chose new places for their seasonal camps. Part of the tribes’ lore was the necessity to walk lightly on the land, so they took care not to tread too often over the same ground.
Kilimanjara, in her last weeks with them, had urged them to return to simpler ways. The truth was that since the enormous upheaval of the PPA—the post-post aftershock that had ravaged the land and destroyed decades of work, apart from causing many deaths among the tribesfolk—nearly every one of the tribes had become more cautious and less certain about the wisdom of their chosen path. Fo
