Lind found things for humans were not as nice as Ella seemed to think. She seemed to believe that they lived lives of luxury in their villages and towns but it was barely able to have such lofty names.
Huts, poorly constructed ones, were clustered around a few main paths with simple walls around them. He saw stone and wood implements everywhere with no sign of metal at all.
Even the other village was not much more than a few thousand. The population was too low.
Over a million years of carving out a place might have serious attrition but there was still too few. Why were they so low in population?
It was like they were dying faster than they could reproduce. It made no sense as there were massive numbers of children but there were very few older folks. The villages in his range came to no more than 10 or 20 million.
Based on the number of beasts, it should be closer to 100 million. What had happened to the other 80 million?
