Yes, that's how I understood it. The description seemed pretty clear to me:
Our ancestors foresaw a time when we might need such fluency, perhaps to bargain for our lives - and so they captured women of your tribes, and sometimes men, and forced them to interact with our young. Until your English took root here, and our few khrast families were established.
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Date: 2008-11-17 09:23 pm (UTC)Our ancestors foresaw a time when we might need such fluency, perhaps to bargain for our lives - and so they captured women of your tribes, and sometimes men, and forced them to interact with our young. Until your English took root here, and our few khrast families were established.