Editing The Journal of Veksvale (section)

=='''Ra-Zati'''==
A week after I i had chosen my site i got my first visitors.  A small group of the ''Ra-Zati'' arrived at night.  I awoke to 20 of them looking over my fire.  

Walking out i had prepared my spells for more mundane needs so i decided to depend on brute force if necessary. 

They didn't seem to eager for conflict.  Mostly they were interested in my bear jerky. They set up their tents among the trees away from my own.  Pole-less canvas suspended by ropes strung in trees.   They climbed the trees like gymnasts, in a manner i appreciated as a expert in such movement myself.   Hanging hammocks from trees they settled in for a short stay.  

At first glance they didn't look too different then the people downhill, and for good reason it seemed.   Over time as i dealt with their comings and goings i learned a great deal of their history.   Remnants of a defeated people near the low hills of the western water, they had fled east, going further up hill then many before them had.  A beaten people fleeing the attacks of people only slightly less desperate then they.  

In time they found the top of the Wall of the World. Spreading out they made small camps, for a year or a season, or a few days.  Despite having outrun their foes it had become a comfortable life for themselves by not becoming attached to places.  Not owning possessions they couldn't carry on their backs or on a few beasts of burden.  By not being afraid to step away naked and leave all their belongs behind.  

They were peaceful for the most part.  But they had been a warrior people and fleeing combat did not make them less able to defend themselves in need.  

I became friends with them over the years.  They never stayed for long.  Often they didn't say hello.  I would wake up to find their hammocks in the trees. Then they would leave without so much as a fare thee well.