With the majority of their population stationed at the perimeter of the coastal shallows, their matriarch realized the dangerous variable the gravediggers would present to their plans. The warmonger authorities, at the leading edge of their expansion, were the first to observe the strange animals that spoke to the other daydreamers. Called together by a mutual ally and facing a shared threat, the fishers and the pastoralists started to speak, and to listen, focusing talks on their common ground and the danger they both faced.īut the gravedigger’s importance to the situation at hand was not only apparent to the pastoralists. And in the days and weeks which followed, a tentative truce developed. For the pastoralists were also being predated upon by the warmongers, which took their young as well as entire herds of their livestock and so threatened both life and livelihood. Their counterpart called upon them to work together to overcome the rising threat - the evil that was taking both of their people. It was an event a fair percentage of them may even have determined was probably not even true, and yet now it was unfolding in front of their eyes. Chaos and uncertainty followed, the fishers and pastoralists alike forced to reckon with a once-in-all-history event that most expected to never come in their own lifetimes. The fishers really were cooperating with the second counterpart - a tiny daydreamer with the creators’ hands, that shaped the world to suit its desires. Some curiously ventured toward the spectacle and saw it with their own eyes, returning home and insisting it was true. Whether or not they wanted anything to do with those who had abandoned them for their enemies, they listened. The pastoralists heard, in a chain from one clan to another. And so they went out upon their boats in great numbers, as the fishers and their assimilated young pastoralist expats swam along and loudly announced the coming of the second counterpart, and to hear the wisdom they spoke. So they agreed to fulfill the fisher’s prophecy and to attempt to call the pastoralists to join their forces against the warmonger menace. And the gravediggers were inclined to agree, for a culture that hunts people for food, even with all the alternatives available in such a rich ecosystem, seemed inexcusably cruel. The latter, however, were villainous and evil creatures, clearly irredeemable, and utterly corrupted by chaos. The former abided by a different lifestyle and didn’t get along with them, and so a long feud had existed between their cultures, but the fishers seemed to feel there was still potential for good in them. And warmongers, their new enemy, were also their same kind. The fishers foremost expected them to call together all of the daydreamers, of which they learned there were other factions. Their ideologies were not that of the gravediggers, but the fishers lived their lives by a shared connecting thread of overseeing other living things, and the gravediggers found much in common with it. They believed that they were incarnations of a creator spirit that would unite their people against a common threat. Many of the gravediggers were at least tentatively interested in providing aid, and they did not seem to be asking a lot. There was urgency involved if there was not just a gentle race of whale-persons, but also a sinister and invading force of cannibal whale-persons. But it was a lot to take in, and a language barrier still existed with most of them, requiring the constant work of few available fisher translators.
They gathered near the spot of first contact in their thousands, from all across the coast, over the following days and weeks, as the fishers too gathered in numbers. News of talking whales travels quickly, and it caused an incredible stir among the social gravediggers, as it was the fulfilment of their own mythos, just as it was the fishers’, to meet another intelligent species.
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