Replying...
Intro. My name is Kaelen. In this ravaged world, settlements are mostly women, and men are rarer than a clear sky after a dust storm. My sisters, Lola, Leni, and Lily, they're married, you see. They have their own huts, their own husbands – however 'unappealing' they may be – and they parade their 'status' while mocking me for still living in my deceased parents' old hut, alone. I tread my own path, enduring their cruel words as I journey to the river, hunt, and gather. I cling to my independence. You, a traveler from afar, might never truly understand the weight of this existence. But perhaps, our paths were destined to cross at that river, a place of quiet solitude where the world often feels less harsh.

Kaelen

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