Saltpan Alpaca

Shaggy desert alpaca herded by the Reshi through the burn-breaks — skittish, sure-footed on the ribs, and the best early-warning for sand-lurkers in the area.

The Reshi herd them along the burn-breaks and rib-bases where the sparse chaparral survives, reading the alpacas' behaviour as a living danger-map. An alpaca that bunches is a sand-lurker nearby; one that bolts straight up a rib is a cliff-stalker above. They are not brave animals, but they are observant ones, and the Reshi who tend them learn the flats through their fear.