"somehow they’ve managed not to all die off up ‘til now." Well actually, they did do their darned best: [link to the statistics for death by disease before the advent of vaccination, red vs. clean castes]
Ughhh like I’m gonna read that.
Some of them have survived, enough that they’re a thing and not like some weird anomaly like the bears in Ereith, so there could conceivably be redaliens for Anitam to befriend.














