The were the first to suffer. Without rain, their high gardens withered. They cried out for water, but the Root-Tenders, bitter from years of being ignored, hoarded the deep-well reserves for themselves. "You have the sun," the Root-Tenders shouted up. "Drink that."
Should we focus a future story on a like "sacrifice," or The were the first to suffer
The built a network of hollowed-out bamboo pipes, a vertical veins system running from the canopy to the soil. but the Root-Tenders