Tamaraw Exodus

Chapter 33 - Taking root

After things had started to become better back at the colony after the venom crisis that much of the fleet was able to procure and even fix things for the time being. As much of the fleet had finally landed as a quarantine zone was made in what was now deem as the spider lands which was a quick and effective way to keep the people from exploring and becoming a spider's juice box. Yet as the antivenom has been started to be refined that much of the people were starting to feel safe enough to start making their new homes within the new biome that they found themselves to be. As while the cavern was great it lacked much of the sunlight and it was shared with the remainder of the megabats. 

While fresh fish was being shipped from the beaches when the various Badjaos had started to settle in and generate a constant stream of aquatic produces in exchange for credits to buy wood and labour when it comes to transportation creating a interconnected colony. As three villages were being formed while most of the administrative services were made back at the fleet where there was still power and much of the systems set and read. As it was three new locations were set up for the harvest of vital and needed produce. One that was the stilt villages forming just near the coast which they called Sulten net in honour of the gel fish that sustained the fleet in the duration of their voyage, the cliff villages called branchfall who was harvesting the fallen branches for wood and even the one responsible for developing farming techniques as it once cleared the land was quite fertile and it would seem that the branch bug offered insights to the scientist that were studying its make up along with developing ways for the cultivation of vital staple food like rice and corn that they had. 

Finally Maybagras as a nod to the mindanao's rainbow eucalyptus(Bagras) which fuelled its paper industry in the past. Though paper was something in the past due to much of the trees back home had become scarce and to preserve the oxygen level that much of them had switched to digital. Hence, why much of them have tablets of their own likely salvaged and even preserved by the family as a digital record. A momento of the past and an record of how things went badly in the span of two generations. 

 Pictures of the sun, jungles lush and bountiful, animals that only they knew now as myths themselves and most of all a vibrant and living ocean full of fishes to devour and even live off of. Things that they have now and the promised land under their feet as they developed and made things better. As it was it became a family heirloom and as it started to finally die down the memory cards were preserved and kept alive for them all to see them in the future descendants to see and partake in such history. 

As they worked as they promised. As the badjao dived, fished, and even took their chances to establish themselves a better place then the one they had before. As they imported dirt and soil from that of the mainland itself as they practise a new system that they haven't done before. As Tom and Lily would be part of a seminar held by Diego as he told them about a peculiar plant that most of them found quite early on in the past. An indigo plant that thrived within the salty oceans of their new home. As due to its bulbous size that one could cut and harvest a rather oily substance perfect as a natural lotion and shampoo one of which the anitos were quite happy about. Yet for the fisher men the lengthily roots that it had the perfect place for plenty of the fishes to live in. 

Thought as for what they we planning to do with such plants was the creation of fish farms. Namely nets around the said plants to keep the animals safe and the able to release excess amounts of fishes to avoid fish kill. As he was showing them a diagram which they found quite educational as the nets were small enough to let the smaller variants of fishes and their predators out. 

"So its a good way farm fishes and to preserve their numbers.." Tom Mumbled as he and Lily listened in. "If its like that then vibrant fur." Mumbled Lily knowing that the two were quite happy and eager for their own kinds of expectations. As Lily was eager to have something to make her skin and her fur much more lively while Tom was up for ensuring that his business and his pet were growing well. Yet as they continued on they would not help hear the other's intentions and soon enough smirk and laughed happily at the ideas itself.