- [<] Status Log - created:: 2022-03-06 - status-updated: 2022-03-06 - status-updated:: 2022-03-08 published with [[2022.03.09a Exotic foods serve ritual purposes]] as the afterword. Only really rich people in places like Tal, a city Emily had only ever heard of but imagined constantly, were able to live without animals. Merchants brought them milk and eggs and new clothes and they never had to shoot swurdhounds to protect the peahens. She dreamed of it constantly.