"They left all the weak ones here," she said finally.
If there was time, and food enough to go around, she would try to help the weaker ones eat.
It is the weak ones who are too ashamed to come.
They simply killed off the weaker ones and used the survivors.
So that large strong people don't have any particular advantage over smaller, weaker ones.
The weak ones too often die, and the child with them.
This time she did not go for the weak ones.
And was that why she always chose the weak ones in the first place?
The Sage did stand by the weak ones of the people, the old and the young.
It often has a rhythm with a strong beat followed by two weaker ones.