The Price of Pity

The whole hillside erupted into activity.

Luckily, though the hill had weathered the drought and the megastorms, it had never been touched by wildfire, so dead trees stood everywhere.

As long as you had the muscle for it, throwing together a rough little shelter was no trouble at all.

In the span of a single day, the once-bare hill was crowded with huts of every size.

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