A community without hierarchies, microchips or fences, Eden’s Cove has a rotating leadership called “The Elders”. They plan the community’s needs and render decisions on important cases. Every villager expects their neighbor to behave in the community’s best interest and follow the rules and guidelines for the collective good. Preoccupied mostly with farming, hunting, fishing, and handicraft tasks, the villagers devote time for recreation revolving around nature-based pantheistic festivals. Bartering and sharing is not merely a way of life out of necessity, but at the root of collectivist values they proudly embrace in order to survive.
As head of the Elders, Misty is the woman I knew as the mother who raised me, although all children considered their mother. If Eden’s Cove had a communal
