[ WP ] A tribe has been migrating for so long that generations have been born and died knowing only travel . The only thing guiding them now are legends and stories .

`` Papa?'' 
 
 `` Yes, my boy?'' 
 
 `` Papa, where do people go after they die?'' 
 
 `` Well son, two places actually. Our bodies become useless for a time so we give them back to the ground where they can become a part of the Earth again.'' 
 
 `` But why, Papa?'' 
 
 `` Hmmm... you see boy, the reason we move east is so that our western brethren, those following in our footsteps, may reap the blessings of our souls as we have from our easterly brethren, those who move before us.'' 
 
 `` But I've never seen a blessing before..nor our eastern or western brethren'' 
 
 `` Oh, but you have. You see them everyday in the food we gather and the game we hunt. We nourish ourselves upon the bodies of our people who have met their fate further East than us.'' 
 
 `` What's the other place, papa?'' 
 
 `` Oh, right. Well, our souls are too reunited with the nourishment we sow. But, unlike our bodies, those souls never lose their form and are ingested by the mothers of our western brethren.'' 
 
 `` So mama has hundreds of souls of our eastern brethren inside her?!?'' 
 
 `` Not quite. Bodiless souls require nourishment as much as our own, my son. So, every time a soul is ingested, it borrows a bit from the woman, who is become its mother.'' 
 
 `` So babies are souls of our eastern brethren? Am I an eastern brother?'' 
 
 `` We all are son. You are our brother to the east as our brother to the west will one day be you.'' 
 
 `` D-d-does that mean we... we wo n't always be t-t-together?'' 
 
 `` Oh, do n't cry my son. We will always be together. Just remember, this is why we move. We will be together forever as long as we keep moving East just as our eastern brethren before us and our western brethren after.'' 
 
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