Tomorrow the drilling for oil begins

But there is yet hope. Envoys have been exchanged between the human inhabitants of the region and those others, those we call the good folk. Astonishingly, a pause – perhaps something longer than a pause – has been negotiated in the endless border wars between our peoples, the wars which stretch back beyond memory. There is a surprising hope that we may yet unite against the appalling depredations of the Sunakians, who seek only to destroy the land we both, in our different ways, hold dear and use the profits to feather their own nests.