Mikotsuhime
Nonbinary Forest Hermit
Anya shrugged her shoulders, and Erik sighed.
"We don't really know, is the thing. We can only judge the jungle from the outside, after all. It's difficult to get answers without getting a good look at it," Anya said, and Erik nodded.
"It's frustrating, and hard to know how it works," he agreed. He had been studying it for two years, and didn't feel any closer to an answer now than he did when he started.
Hector and Anya shared a look at Rowan's question, before they both shrugged their shoulders.
"That's another tough one," Anya said. "But we think it was for defense. Say, if somebody found a way to trick past the jungle's defenses, if the way in and out were they same, they could just hop back over to the North and tell all their buddies, and then we'd just be invaded again."
"You have to understand, that war was a dark spot on our history," Hector continued. "We lost a lot. Many people thought that our country wouldn't survive. The jungle was a last-ditch effort to save us and start rebuilding. It worked, but they had no way of knowing if it would at the time. It was very much an act of desperation."
"We don't really know, is the thing. We can only judge the jungle from the outside, after all. It's difficult to get answers without getting a good look at it," Anya said, and Erik nodded.
"It's frustrating, and hard to know how it works," he agreed. He had been studying it for two years, and didn't feel any closer to an answer now than he did when he started.
Hector and Anya shared a look at Rowan's question, before they both shrugged their shoulders.
"That's another tough one," Anya said. "But we think it was for defense. Say, if somebody found a way to trick past the jungle's defenses, if the way in and out were they same, they could just hop back over to the North and tell all their buddies, and then we'd just be invaded again."
"You have to understand, that war was a dark spot on our history," Hector continued. "We lost a lot. Many people thought that our country wouldn't survive. The jungle was a last-ditch effort to save us and start rebuilding. It worked, but they had no way of knowing if it would at the time. It was very much an act of desperation."