“A thousand years and more.”
“What were they?”
“Cliff-dwellers. Men who had enemies and made their homes high out of reach.”
“They had to fight?”
“Yes.”
“They fought for—what?”
“For life. For their homes, food, children, parents—for their women!”
“Has the world changed any in a thousand years?”
“I don’t know—perhaps a little.”
“Have men?”