On the Edge
Dec. 4th, 2018 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigThey had always lived on the edge.
Iai had heard of other families where they did not; on occasion, they had wandered inland and met such families. They traded in things that one could farm in a stable, calm environment; they sold things that required land and water in different ratios and
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Iai had heard of other families where they did not; on occasion, they had wandered inland and met such families. They traded in things that one could farm in a stable, calm environment; they sold things that required land and water in different ratios and
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Date: 2019-05-31 12:55 pm (UTC)If they're trading for chickens, I can only guess that iaini-birds are either not good to eat or there are so few that eating some would damage either the population or the egg collection that Iai and family do.
There's a fair bit of human history that involves cliff dwellers (e.g. the Pueblo), or building villages on top of defensible hills (e.g. many of Italy's ancient villages). It sounds like the family here doesn't actually need to build like that — that there's flatter, stabler land nearby, which they could travel from to do their cliff work — but they wanted to for some reason. (That may go back to the "not the same species" thoughts.)