190 Those Who Stay

The units all got back to the Den at roughly the same time, and they all brought different things back with them based on what was available and what they thought the new base could use.

The villagers would take anything else that they forgot, so they could trade for it later if it wasn't a high-priority item, so they weren't too worried. The witches and the mutants might not be able to talk to each other, but they had done a great job of working together today, and a friendly bond was beginning to form.

Especially among the group who had been in the furthest eastern location for the day. One of the witches was a prodigy with healing and had managed to stabilize the mutations of one of the villagers who had accompanied them, returning her body to nearly human looking and allowing her to speak a few broken words to the witches.