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(I was thinking machinery, maybe a human invasion
Maybe not so early on...
)
"The last time this happened, an earthquake almost split the ground open," she said worriedly, as nearby trees started to quiver. "Take the nuts, we'll probably need them if everything's going to be crushed."
( No! That'll cause us to revert to fighting. No, we need something that cannot be stopped, but only coped with.)
Tanleaf knew that, she would always be able to find that she needed, but she took the nuts anyway, stuffing them into her wing. "And what about you? You can't fly!"
(Yeah, I was thinking a natural disaster like a tornado, flood, fire, so on.)