It is always amazing to her that there seems to be a season when people just show up at their doorstep unannounced. Sometimes it is slaves who have managed to walk barefoot for many pasangs, then managed to get past hundreds of out riders to show up at their fires, not a hair out of place. Strange.
But right now, it is dwellers. Now just how do they get to where they get? What is a pampered dweller woman doing traveling without guards or anyone to accompany her? Now somehow, the story of raiders having taken one then just dumping her off, in tact, by the way--
no collar, no rape, no rhyme no reason, just does not quite wash either. The fact that she did not last is not surprising. The sleens dined early.
Now, the other one is Kaeli's daughter. She is happy that Kaeli is reunited with her daughter, because she cannot even begin to imagine being away from any of her children for any reason, but she does know that it happens, so there is that part of her that is happy to see mother and child together; however, there is that other part, that sees the girl as a stranger, an outsider.
There has been a lot of splitting of verr hairs over this situation. She is Kaeli's daughter, that makes a difference. No, it doesn't. She has not been living in a city, but in wagons outside of a city? And what difference does that make? She is still dweller tainted. Well, she is one quarter Tuchuk.
What?
That makes her better than someone from the outer wagons that is full blooded Tuchuk?
Some Ubar promised Kaeli and her children a place in the tribe, supposedly, long ago. Huh? So, if this is so, why do the year keepers not know of it, why does there not seem to be a record of their names? It is easy to invoke the name of someone who is either no longer here, or who rides the skies.
The bottom line is this. The girl is a stranger, a dweller, someone that has not been living her life on these plains and in this camp. She will have to make her place just like any other dweller would have to. She will receive no special treatment because of who she is related to. And if she cannot do this on her own, and learn on her own, and stand on her own two feet...............
Then she is not Tuchuk and has no business being here.
But right now, it is dwellers. Now just how do they get to where they get? What is a pampered dweller woman doing traveling without guards or anyone to accompany her? Now somehow, the story of raiders having taken one then just dumping her off, in tact, by the way--
no collar, no rape, no rhyme no reason, just does not quite wash either. The fact that she did not last is not surprising. The sleens dined early.
Now, the other one is Kaeli's daughter. She is happy that Kaeli is reunited with her daughter, because she cannot even begin to imagine being away from any of her children for any reason, but she does know that it happens, so there is that part of her that is happy to see mother and child together; however, there is that other part, that sees the girl as a stranger, an outsider.
There has been a lot of splitting of verr hairs over this situation. She is Kaeli's daughter, that makes a difference. No, it doesn't. She has not been living in a city, but in wagons outside of a city? And what difference does that make? She is still dweller tainted. Well, she is one quarter Tuchuk.
What?
That makes her better than someone from the outer wagons that is full blooded Tuchuk?
Some Ubar promised Kaeli and her children a place in the tribe, supposedly, long ago. Huh? So, if this is so, why do the year keepers not know of it, why does there not seem to be a record of their names? It is easy to invoke the name of someone who is either no longer here, or who rides the skies.
The bottom line is this. The girl is a stranger, a dweller, someone that has not been living her life on these plains and in this camp. She will have to make her place just like any other dweller would have to. She will receive no special treatment because of who she is related to. And if she cannot do this on her own, and learn on her own, and stand on her own two feet...............
Then she is not Tuchuk and has no business being here.
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