The Others Author:Margaret Wander Bonanno The People's best artists, linguists, players, and all but one musician brought their talents to the Archipelago, and if it was true that People would never be the same, neither would we. The changes wrought were never painless, never without misunderstandings, handringing and stress, and no individual among us was unmoved by what was lost in wh... more »at was gained. We had survived the Thousand-Year and were perhaps better prepared for radical change. But some People found the changes intolerable, and the rift began.« less