Chapter 5, Alegria Walks on Earth:
The caves of Alegria’s home-hold had been dug deep into the mountains. She preferred the outside. Even in the coldest months, she preferred to explore the outside world. She left the lower levels of the tunnels and halls to her brethren. They loved the under-earth and would continue digging as long as they found solid stone from which to pull the minerals.
The smelters ran day and night, creating the ingots of metal her people would trade with the other mountain people. Alegria was a stranger in her own home. Where the others in her cohort mostly went for the mining and smelting occupations, she focused on the animals and the great outdoors that called to her.
Most of those her age thought she was touched in the head. They hated the outside and the ope
