[Those specks -- if they're visible at this distance, they must be enormous.
Is the moon -- the snake -- Jormungandr -- protecting them? It is a strange thought, a foreign one, utterly at odds with how Aaron has thought of the great animals until now. He has feared them since learning about them, but is it that they are meant to be protectors against something worse?
If that is so, what happens when that something breaks through?
His mind keeps returning to the word invasion.
Decisively:]
...you and I are going to eat and rest, and if the situation hasn't changed, we'll return to work. If it has...well, we'll deal with that when we come to it.
[They enter another room, where food from around the island has been collected and stockpiled and is being distributed. It won't be hard to request enough to eat: it'll be plain, meant to give nutrients and keep the population healthy. It's all organized into grains, fruits, meats, beans, dairy -- a meal will be given to them.]
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Is the moon -- the snake -- Jormungandr -- protecting them? It is a strange thought, a foreign one, utterly at odds with how Aaron has thought of the great animals until now. He has feared them since learning about them, but is it that they are meant to be protectors against something worse?
If that is so, what happens when that something breaks through?
His mind keeps returning to the word invasion.
Decisively:]
...you and I are going to eat and rest, and if the situation hasn't changed, we'll return to work. If it has...well, we'll deal with that when we come to it.
[They enter another room, where food from around the island has been collected and stockpiled and is being distributed. It won't be hard to request enough to eat: it'll be plain, meant to give nutrients and keep the population healthy. It's all organized into grains, fruits, meats, beans, dairy -- a meal will be given to them.]