The Nawa villagers were delighted to learn that they were the people, though they wondered since when. In their isolation, they had started to believe that they were just the Nawis, and that nobody was interested in their fate, much less their opinions. Nobody had ever asked them anything at all before, and nobody else had been here freezing during harsh winters when they lacked heat, wool, and shoes, and when the sight of little children walking barefoot in the snow broke the hearts of the powerless adults. Nobody came to Nawa. Well, almost nobody.
