"Oh!" Anne chuckles at her own mistake. "I guess I hadn't expected sewing supplies to be just lying around. You didn't happen to find them in a cookie tin, did you?"

She nods. Seasonal animal migration habits; things Anne hadn't put much stock into when she was getting her law degree. "It might not be a bad idea to recruit some of the hunter-tracker types to find us some more animals, before they get too sparse."

Hunters could always get them pelts, but that was then one animal that wouldn't produce more; at least with a domesticated herd they could ensure a renewable resource of fibers.