The site was over ten kilometers away, but that didn't dampen anyone's spirits.
Evelyn Ford took out twenty fertilized chicken eggs to incubate. After a moment's thought, she also took out ten fertilized duck eggs.
When she went out to haul back the rock salt this time, she could conveniently come up with an origin story for these duck eggs.
Ronan Kendrick built a pen for her downstairs to continue raising chickens, ducks, and geese. After everything that had happened, petty theft had vanished from the safe zone. Besides, this was a pen built by Ronan, so no one would dare touch it.
The next morning, everyone set out to haul back the rock salt. Those with carts used carts; those without used shoulder poles, wooden buckets, basins, bedsheets... anything they could to bring the rock salt back.
