The First and Second Elder acted as vanguard and went ahead to search and clear a path whilst Dara and Elder Long brought the rear, with the rest of the experts guarding either sides of the Obuns as they marched via another random direction back to the tribe.
By the time they returned, the existing developments and expansions had all been completed and even the stores and the vault had been locked.
The Vault had only a single key which was a tag the size of a child's palm, with the flexible branches of the glowing flowers strewn to it to enable it to be worn on the neck like a jewelry.
This single key was given to Dara whilst the store on the other hand had five keys in total; One was given to Elder Smith for storing the products of the smithy, another was given to Aunt Lin for storing the farm harvest;
