“If they eat their rations sparingly they will survive a month. Many communities will offer them food payment in return for music, or these communities will barter; but such largesse and trade is random. A week could pass and they might meet nobody—then lots of meetings all together. But if the food they acquire is perishable, it will not last. Hunting and trapping are tasks too sophisticated for them to countenance.Then there are the animals. The ponies can survive off grass. When there is snow..., the foursome can brush or dig it aside for the ponies to eat. But the whippets are different. They need meat and biscuits, though they have the advantage of eating any scraps they can find, including carrion.It is going to be tough, yet they must survive. They must continue the quest. They must experience every aspect of nature, of society, of culture, and from these things they must wring their songs.It is going to be tough.Despite the scorn Nulight feels for Deputy Smark, he does not deny—even in public, to the interloper's face—that the priest's knowledge of winter plants is essential.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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