Chapter XVIII: A COUNTRY IS BORNTheir settlement grew swiftly, beautifully, beyond Witon's hopes or dreams. It took but a few days to transfer all the supplies, wood, and stores to their permanent campsite in the teardrop-shaped section of land at the southern tip of the continent. The crew and the Council, working arduously side by side, erected a few shelters from the materials left from the Freedom and as they worked in the forest, they gathered materials to build more.
For the time being, the crew shared two large, half-walled, tent-like cabins among them, while Witon and Mitren lived with Nevod and Lydan, the Brownies with the Trolls and the Dwarves with the Faeries. Only the Centaurs remained without a structure.
“We have always lived among the trees,” Chiron told Witon. “We need n
