I don’t check in on fic here as often as I should but I really liked this one! Signe has a real sense of humour, the way you’ve written her 
Wavewright, I liked that tale, and was pretty sure it was you. Now I wonder whether one of those traders was a descendant of the girl Coyote rescued......
Thank you very much *curtsey*
To answer Róisín, strictly speaking, probably not, even though I like the premise.
Darcie (I think that was her name, I refuse to go look it up arrrgggh) headed south and east, and I picture her ending up in northern Appalachia or some other mountains on the Eastern seaboard, with lots to scavenge from as well as squillions of grosslings to avoid. Betolam is further away still, and to the west and south, across the Rockies and the Sierras, albeit safer from trolls in between.
I definitely picture traders working between isolated patches of people (and also drifters whose only fictive purpose is to avoid inbreeding), but I also picture large divides between regions. Riverboats plying the Mississippi full-time become a thing again. Issues surrounding the survival of Americans have been far more exhaustively researched in the early days of the Forum.
