She glanced between his arm and the sheer face of the cliff and chose to grab him any time she felt like falling. "It was much the same," she said, picking through the rocks carefully. "We harvest a lot of grain. Not much luck with cattle and animals, though. They always wander off."<br/><br/>Shie reached the top of the first rocky hill and peered at the horizon, seeing how the landscape curved down from where she stood. "We had a lot of children always playing. A lot of happy parents. Our bar was never as full as it is now... But now that the children are gone and the parents are depressed..."<br/><br/>She began to walk down slowly, skidding on the heels of her shoes alternately.