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@ -137,4 +137,77 @@ Only a hand full of the doors had the grey rags that Katt and her sister used as
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Almost nobody from the tribe was currently able to be seen,
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which Andrew wasn't too sad about.
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On the other side of the large plaza some kids were playing,
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but Andrew went without looking at them closely.
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but Andrew decided he didn't want to look at them too closely.
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Even if he had gotten a taste of the tribe through Ratt, Liz, and the others,
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he felt it would be better to get to know the rest of the menagerie in homeopathic doses.
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Shortly before they left the plaza,
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Andrew stopped and looked around him.
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On the roof of the house next to where Katt and her sister lived a fire was still burning.
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It was too bright to really see the flames,
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but Andrew could see the column of oily black smoke that went almost completely vertical in the unmoving air,
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before it dissolved into the air thirty or forty meters up.
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He blinked questioningly.
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``She'll have her child today'', answered Katt,
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who had noticed his facial expression.
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``At the latest tomorrow.''
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``You always light a bonfire when one of you expects a child?''
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``Is it not like that where you're from?'', asked Katt blankly.
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Andrew laughed.
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``No.
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Our tribes are \dots a little bigger than yours.''
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``That much bigger?''
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Andrew nodded.
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``How many?'', asked Katt.
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Andrew thought about it for a moment,
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then he made a sweeping motion around himself with the empty canister.
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``Imagine this whole city were full of humans.
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A whole family would live in each room.''
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Katt's eyes widened.
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``I don't believe you.''
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``And then imagine it was a hundred times as big'', Andrew continued.
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``And there were a hundred of those cities.''
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Katt stared at him further in bewilderment and in her eyes a fear appeared that Andrew didn't understand at first.
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She laughed, but it sounded nervous and not real.
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``You're pulling my leg'', she said.
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``No tribe can get that big.
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What would they all eat?''
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Andrew mentally warned himself to be careful.
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It might not matter to him if Katt believed him or not,
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but maybe the danger was that she \textit{would} believe him.
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Maybe he wasn't the only one that needed the truth in homeopathic doses.
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``Yeah, you are probably right'', he said ambiguously and made motions to continue walking.
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She looked at him for a moment longer with such hopelessness and bewilderment that Andrew almost regretted his own words.
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As they kept walking Andrew mentally warned himself again to be much more careful with what he said.
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He really should be thinking about every word he says very carefully.
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They left the plaza and stepped on to a street that was mostly blocked by rubble and other debris.
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It continued straight for a good one and a half or two kilometers.
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The houses,
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even though they were destroyed,
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were still so tall that they held most of the sunlight back;
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At the floor of the brick ravine it was not only darker,
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but also noticeably cooler than on the big plaza where the tribe lived.
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only a small stripe on the left lay in the sun,
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but Katt avoided walking there,
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instead opting to march along the other side even though they were constantly forced to climb over frequent boulders and other rubble.
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Andrew was wondering why she was doing that,
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but he figured that Katt would know what she was doing and followed her without complaints.
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He also passed on asking how far they had to go.
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With two full water canisters the way back would be torture.
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While he was closely following Katt he took the time to really look around himself.
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