Most of the people of the blistered land were harmless. They had eaten the wrong flesh and been punished for it. Some saw things that were not there. Some of them could not walk and their fellows helped them. Two had shared a fire with her, some nights ago, although she was careful not to eat their food, even though they offered. It was a cruel spirit that would punish starving people for what they had been forced to eat, but the spirits had never pretended to be kind.
