Yeah, definitely.

How're your tribes doing?

Pretty good - it's been kind of a sparse year for food, so we're mostly focused on that and getting all the new people settled in, but we're doing okay, no major problems.

We're doing okay on food if you need anything. And there's a spellform for it.

I'm not sure there's a way to take you up on that without worrying people - the mages won't want us gathering from enspelled plants, I'm sure. Little One'll have a better idea, though.

Rána? Can we help them with food any?

...yeah, probably. Logistics'll be tricky... hm. If I make some of those baskets that let you carry heavier loads, and then we put those somewhere with food in them for the Speakers to sneak in? It's a little risky, but they wouldn't have to do it often, if we find good spots to leave the baskets they can pick them up whenever it's safe.

Sounds good to me.

We might have to shift things around a little so we can give them things that won't look suspicious, but I'm sure that won't be a problem.

She tells the other kobolds about it. They're pleased; one of the ones who didn't want Tyelkormo knowing where their tribes would be changes their mind about that.

I don't need to know, you can be the one to drop off the baskets.

I still have to get there to learn the location, unless we can spare me for a week's hike for each tribe - flying isn't safe here, there're flying predators.

Okay, fair.

We're still helping them, anyway, the other Speakers will get their chiefs to let them have the best spots for gathering.

I'll trust you've got a system.

More or less, yeah. And then one of the kobolds goes "...wait, I thought Quendi were... um..." they look worriedly at Tyelkormo.

"They do ownership, yeah," Rána explains patiently. "That doesn't mean they never share anything."

We share lots of things. We can share because we can expect things to be where we need them.

This gets him a round of confused looks from the kobolds, and good luck from their green-skinned friend.

It might be a problem that only crops up in tribes bigger than yours.

"Maybe," says one.

"But tigerfolk do ownership, too," says another.

"Yeah," says the first.

Tigerfolk tribes are smaller than kobold ones, explains Rána.

Yeah, it has some uses even in small communities but it's really necessary in big ones.

"Seems like you should be able to come up with a friendlier solution than that if you really wanted to, though."

I'm not the one to explain why you're wrong but every attempted friendlier solution ends up being far, far worse. 

"...okay."

Like, tons of people pointlessly starving worse. 

"...how? That sounds like the kind of problem that that'd make worse, not better."