Mar opened her eyes and there were now no tears in them.
She looked at Fern and Fern knew she had heard the words in her own heart.
‘You see!’ she said gently, releasing her from her embrace.
‘I see,’ the woman said.
* * * *
With Karne’s supervision and energetic work the stricken homes began to rise again, but almost without anyone realizing it the two villages that had been so separate and so different began to merge into one large straggling village with a great deal more open space between the houses than there had been before. Not everyone rebuilt their homes in exactly the same place, relatives in one village moved nearer to relatives in the other, some chose new land but some stayed with the old.
Also, without anyone realizing it, Karne was increasingly consulted on every deci
