Barrow Fields She just changes her mind

It was proving a difficult thing— adjusting to their way of speaking. But the mountain woman listened intently, pushing to understand every word and its purpose.

We people strong like mountain. Why mountain chose us. They'd been the first born there, and the first to find settlement... or so the stories went. 

They were alike, as the child suggested. But in what way? Who your people? Earth people? Were they all like her?