159. Doing the farming right (1)- The First Rare Row

Carlos went toward the southern fields after breakfast and found Rowan arguing with Tarin about a rope.

The rope had been stretched across the new Rare Farmland. Tarin wanted to put it farther back, while Rowan kept pointing at the small water path beside it.

Sela watched both of them with a basket in her hands. Carlos had expected everyone to start planting already, but the three hundred square meters were still mostly empty.

"What happened?" he asked.

"He wants the walking path over the water," Rowan said. "Then somebody carrying seeds will step into it and we will spend our morning repairing something we made yesterday."

Tarin pulled the rope toward himself without answering. Carlos understood who had won that conversation.

Rowan looked different enough that Carlos still needed a moment whenever he saw him. His white cloth floated near his shoulders, and his bare feet were resting above the grass.