Chapter 100: Light

Sara stared at the ceiling on her hammock. That was unexpected. She knew Litmus was bigger, stronger than them. But she never realized how big it was until Rebecca told her that any city could house the entire dovekin and batkin tribe anytime without any problem.

Litmus could even found an entire village just for them—a village where food was no longer an issue.

It would be the right thing to accept their offer. Litmus had done them an injustice and was willing to make amends. The batkin had the upper hand in diplomacy. Moreover, even if Litmus founded a new village just for the dovekin and batkins, it would hardly impact them as a nation. But if she accepted their offer, what was the point of these 500 years of hardship?

This empty, barren forest, where hardly anything grows, had become their home for half a millennium. Could they just leave