T.K. Naliaka, Iron Mixed With Sand Salt Without Memory Quotes
If no one knew them well enough to trust them, then no one was going to speak with them, then they would never get the information that would have warned them to be cautious.
Green meant water, green patches meant farmers and farmers meant agriculture. Agriculture meant food to eat and food to sell, which meant towns and transport. They had reached civilization.
If rhetoric study was the military, grammar teachers would be the drill sergeants.