History of the Viera
Chapter 6: Journey of the 100
Myko had gathered a group of about 100 Viera who were very afraid of Humes and believed her about the planned destruction of the Wood. They decided to go deep into the Wood, deeper than any Viera had ever gone. They were going to live so deep in the Wood that Humes would never find them. The Viera that didn't believe Myko stayed in their villages.
Wandering through the Wood was difficult. There were Reena all through the Wood, and sometimes they'd follow the Viera hoping to make a kill. Most of the Viera the Reena ate were the kits of the slaves they had captured, even though a full grown Reena could eat a whole adult Viera.
It was spring, and these Viera knew the Reena were tracking them. The females only stopped to have their babies. Leaving the group was dangerous, so Viera never left alone. And Viera still had a high risk of dying in childbirth and somebody would need to care for the kit.
Myko believed that soon there would be no pure Viera outside of the Wood, that interbreeding with the Humes would eradicate all pureblood Vieras except for the descendants of the tribe she had gathered.
During the journey into the deep Wood, Myko herself finally managed to bear a single kit. Her daughter Lente was a rather healthy kit, but the worst part was Myko never got to see how strong her daughter would become. She had died having the kit, and Lente was raised by Myko's older sister Kele.
The Reena tried to hold up the Viera at every turn, setting traps and wards. Kele found that young Lente had a talent for breaking wards from the time she was three years old, and decided that once the Viera found a new home, she'd have the kit trained to break all wards as a job. This talent was very unique in Viera. There were very few who could break the Reena wards as well as Lente, and she was just a kitten.
The Viera finally found a good place, and Kele and Lente founded Eruyt Village. Not all of the Viera agreed about what Myko would've wanted and went and started their own villages according to their beliefs. The Viera were not safe from Reena, but at least they had homes again, so they could start breeding like the rabbits they used to be. If they could hold off the Reena, they'd have a fighting chance.