Her tone struck the altus as odd. If there were no natives, it served to reason people would need to hunt, fish, grow food and the like. Things didn't simply appear, after all. "How are you preserving the game? Are you salt-curing or smoking it?" His understanding of the processes was academic, of course, but he knew of their function.

"Are there truly so few here who know how to survive in the wilderness that a library was required?" And more importantly, who put it there. Libraries didn't just appear. "And does it not concern you that this library 'appeared' recently? Shouldn't it?"