After the scouts had returned and a favorable report given, Emily Brooks passed the word to prepare for the move. There was some resistance to moving across the river by a third of the people present. Emily, not wanting to force anyone into anything, asked that those with specialized skills be willing to teach others those skills. Once agreements were finalized, they divided into a group of fifty that insisted on proceeding further downriver, with the remaining one hundred crossing the river.
Fording the river was accomplished without incident and Emily experienced some sadness at seeing the group split. It wasn’t something she wanted. She was thankful, however, that Roy White, the only medical person in the group that left the transport pod, had elected to stay with the majority.
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