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Evabon Habiliments and Food

Taking another stop on her way to meeting Gard, Cheetara watched some Evabon women and children making clothes. Evabon habiliments, though brief, were made of the inmost cortex of a certain wilderness tree that became a downy, fine cloth after being pounded on with a branch. After the cortex fabric had been stenciled or colored in gay colorations achieved from radicles, it was then designed, cut and basted.

As she watched this, she wondered why just the cortex of that tree? Surely other materials could be used. She remembered being a child and seeing clothing made of all sorts of materials and yet the Evabon made their habiliments out of the cortex of a single tree.

"Why that tree?" Cheetara asked one of the women.

"It grows within a day's time." Replied one of the women. "Because of that we can grow them without fear of ever depleting them. If you is cut down a new one grows in its place a day later but it grows so fast that it can kill one while it grows."

Cheetara shuddered at the thought of that. A tree so useful and at the same time so dangerous. She then turned to a woman who was making pudding.

"What is it made from?" she asked.

"Plantains, roe and the flesh of a certain seed." Replied the woman.

Cheetara could only frown. That was not helpful. She remembered having followed Gard through the entwined arms of the trees that formed aerial expressways throughout the wilderness. Stretching for miles in all directions, they had offered Gard uninterrupted travel. The seed could have belonged to any of those trees. It might not have belonged to a tree at all.

A cortex of one tree made clothes, another tree's big yet empty bole provided a natural silo for storage and it was possible a seed of a tree was used in pudding. The use of tree was greater than just for the making of boats and houses it would seem.