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Paying the Rent
And going with the flow
Several years after the great cataclysm the Jenhallo people, after years of wandering, returned to the land where they used to live. They were surprised to find new people living there — and they were surprised that the new people were thriving.
The great cataclysm had left the land uninhabitable. Their homes and crops were destroyed. Many perished. For the sake of survival they were forced to leave their homeland and search for a new home.
They had become nomads yet they maintained a deep-seated memory of the old times and longed for a homeland to settle into. The people felt joy in finding that their original homeland was once again habitable but they also felt anger to discover that it was inhabited by other people.
Camping a few miles away, the Jenhallo people held meetings. Discussion was rampant among everyone about what to do. Some wanted to attack the new people and drive them out so as to retake the land. Others wanted to resume their wandering in search of a new land.
Minganez, an old medicine woman did not partake in the debates. She went out into the nearby hills to meditate and feel the land. When she came back to camp everyone stopped their discussion and turned to hear what she had to say:
