The elders came in and took up their initial position on the chairs. With the inclusion of three additional members from the youths.
The three included Ricus who is elder Burke's child and acting on behalf of the infrastructural groups. Lyla who is representing the farmers, and then Finn a member of the wide range of yet-to-be-explored talents available.
Layla being the only adult female representative in the group is a funny case so to speak.
Per say, she is not the only female adult in the entire village. Amongst the group of people who left the village in search of greener pastures by following Count Grayad, there remain a handful of them who are of the opposite gender.
The number of women that left cannot be compared to the men, but it is a good thing that there appear women among them still!
This will leave room for reproduction and an increase in population as Mikeal foresees it happening when they have all settled down.
