The children eventually emerge onto the plane.

Bina and Laashya can be found back at the stream still. They've gotten a solid experiment in the beginnings of a camp going - someone's managed a loosely woven mat propped up on sticks. Bina is working on more weaving, while Laashya pulls apart some grasses to twist their insides together.

"Hi!" Bina calls. "We met some other kids who said water falls from the sky sometimes so we're trying to make a dry spot. How was the Forest? Who're the new kids?"

"Spooky Woods was kinda good and bad. Malen got dead, but she's back now. Turns out there's other places kids live and these two are from one."

Bina bites her lip. "Was it a vampire ghost?" 

Malen shakes her head. "Nope. A really long land minnow, apparently a snake? If you see one don't walk up to it. These guys are Hazel and Kenet. How's stuff coming along?"

"Lots of it's too scratchy to use, but we found one a couple hours walk from here that's good. It's not near water, though, but - I'm not sure how they get new plants but they all come from the ground so I'm planting a bunch of bits. There's a part of them that's food, too. It's slow going making a covering, though, we've got maybe two hands worth so far," Laashya says.

"Have you figured out fire yet?"

"No. What's that?" Laashya asks.

"Way of turning wood into hotness."

"It's plenty warm already though," Malen points out.

"We used it to cook."

"What's cooking?" asks Bina.

"Making food tastier by burning it just the right amount." 

"Does it work on fruit?" Malen asks.

He shrugs. "Dunno."

"Fruit is pretty tasty already. But it'd be interesting to try. We'll have to be careful with the fire though that it's not near the grasses, I think."

"Yeah. It'd suck to die and end up coming back to ashes."

"Would get lots of other kids in trouble, too."

"Yeah, come back to life, get beaten to death again."

"Kids around here are nice," Laashya interjects. "But it's still rude."

"Nice now..."

"Why d'ya think people will change?"

"War?"

"Why'd we go to war? There's plenty of everything."

"I think he's just adjusting."

"I am too, really. It's weird that it's so different here."

"Light!" Hazel remembers. "Fire also makes light. At night I mean."