The Pack's Rebels
“Not surprising considering the isolation.”
“They live just within the forest, and scrape an existence from the forest floor,” she brushed her fingers along her sleeves, visibly trying to shed her distaste of the situation. “But what I was able to understand from them is that this is not the place to settle. They described dry seasons and lightning storms without rain, which set fire to the grasses, creating a blanket of fire as far as the eye can see. They wait until that season had passed, and then, in soil made fertile by the fire, and easier tended due to the grasses being burned away on the surface, they plant the few crops that they do grow. They get a couple of good months of growing,