Chapter 307

Breeding was difficult and women did not conceive easily. The women were desperate to conserve the population that was left. Losing men was inexcusable.

“Ciara,” Rose called in quiet, sing song voice, “you do not appear to be concentrating,” she commented.

I had not been. The conversation with the men was in my head and distracting me. It was very difficult to be in several different places at once. Looking at her I smiled and resolved to pay attention to what I was doing.

“Read to me,” she offered shyly, “I will help you focus.”

I did as Rose asked and she was accurate. While I was busy reading and speaking, I was less distracted by Damien and his brothers.

Today’s reading was on the mountains we were currently in. For some odd reason the women had different names for things. While the men referred to this range as the blue mountains, the women called them the T’aran Mountains.

Soon I understood why the women had different names. The men’s term h