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 //The Soakers are large and strong and cunning, but do not understand free will; they mistrust it in others and in themselves. And so, at the bidding of those they accepted as masters, they came out into the desert in response to the raids of the Burning Rock People: not to fight in the honorable manner of the People, but to destroy, seed and shoot. The oasis of our foremothers was attacked in the midst of night, and old and young and egg perished at their forepaws, and among them Je-najhwo; and the oasis was poisoned so that it could not be used. Many healthy adults of the Burning Rock People were spared because they had been out hunting; but they had no elders and no young, and no place to provide for either, and insufficient strength to withstand the Soakers should they return.//
-//A people without lands is no people, and the Burning Rock People were therefore no more. A great many of these, among whom was Je-xurro and her sister Je-lhorun, traveled east into the flat lands of the [[ethnicity:ixhwanlhai:Hidden People]], who dwelt in burrows in the time of the Burning Eye because they had no highlands to which to retreat. At first the Hidden People were welcoming and gave shelter to them; but there was not enough food or water for so many extra mouths, and at last the travelers were obliged to go forth again. They passed north, into the deep center of the wastes, and came at last to the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:Jaruk Heights]]. By reason of their remoteness, few passed that way, and yet there was game and some water, and by a wide pool between two arms of the Heights they made their refuge, and because it was Je-xurro that found it they named it Je-xurro's Rest.//
+//A people without lands is no people, and the Burning Rock People were therefore no more. A great many of these, among whom was Je-xurro and her sister Je-lhorun, traveled east into the flat lands of the [[ethnicity:ixhwanlhai:Hidden People]], who dwelt in burrows in the time of the Burning Eye because they had no highlands to which to retreat. At first the Hidden People were welcoming and gave shelter to them; but there was not enough food or water for so many extra mouths, and at last the travelers were obliged to go forth again. They passed north, into the deep center of the wastes, and came at last to the [[geography:sekhaa:region:Jaruk Heights]]. By reason of their remoteness, few passed that way, and yet there was game and some water, and by a wide pool between two arms of the Heights they made their refuge, and because it was Je-xurro that found it they named it Je-xurro's Rest.//
 //In time, the Hidden People heard of this place, and some of them came north to dwell there. And some of the travelers, among whom was Je-xurro, remembered their hospitality and welcomed them; and yet others, among whom was Je-lhorun, had not forgiven them for not keeping them longer as guests. And the discord between them became such that they could not reconcile, and there were battles between them, in which Je-lhorun was slain; and at last the dissenters were defeated, and departed to a further region of the Heights, where they named themselves the [[ethnicity:ixhwanlhai:Jagged Tooth People]] for the sharp ridges of rock there. And the people of Je-xurro, who remained with those Hidden People who had come to dwell by the pool, joined with them and called themselves the Flitting Hargh People, for the [[species:hargh|brightly colored insects]] that were found near the pool at dawn and dusk. And between the Flitting Hargh People and the Jagged Tooth People there remained enmity and strife ever after.//
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 ===== Wanderings =====
-The Jaruk Heights are at the very heart of the desert. Those who have traveled most say it lies equidistant between the four great walls within which is the preserve of the People: the [[geography:sekhaa:region:spine_of_sirdanth|Gray Highlands]] in the Far South, the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:Nest of the Sun]] in the East, the [[avishraa:geography:sekhaa:region:refuge_range|Pinnacles of Night]] in the West, and the cold lands in the North. In any of these directions I could have gone, and seen untold sights, and had a very different life as a result. But south I went, toward the lands held by the Soakers, for I was young and brash and I wished to see for myself the giants who were the tormentors of the People.
+The Jaruk Heights are at the very heart of the desert. Those who have traveled most say it lies equidistant between the four great walls within which is the preserve of the People: the [[geography:sekhaa:region:spine_of_sirdanth|Gray Highlands]] in the Far South, the [[geography:sekhaa:region:Nest of the Sun]] in the East, the [[geography:sekhaa:region:refuge_range|Pinnacles of Night]] in the West, and the cold lands in the North. In any of these directions I could have gone, and seen untold sights, and had a very different life as a result. But south I went, toward the lands held by the Soakers, for I was young and brash and I wished to see for myself the giants who were the tormentors of the People.
 I passed first into the lands of the Hidden People. Now because of the past contact and kinship that had arisen between these and the Flitting Hargh People, we knew of each other and were on cordial terms, and often the wandering males of nearby tribes went to them to learn their ways of avoiding the heat of the Burning Eye even in the lowlands. As I have said, they [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_(shelter)|burrow beneath the ground]] to accomplish this feat, and they do so in two ways.