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Hillmann is depicted as a well-maintained but eerily empty village, indicating a sudden and unexplained human departure.
1 chapter across 1 book
Lilith's Brood (1989)Octavia E. Butler
Chapter 58
In this chapter, Akin travels with a group of resisters through a dense river and forest landscape toward the village of Hillmann, hoping for trade and new human contact. Upon arrival, they find the village mysteriously abandoned with signs of recent Oankali presence and conflicting records indicating a divided human response to joining the Oankali. The chapter explores Akin's observations of the environment, the social dynamics among the resisters, and the unsettling silence and emptiness of the village.