DaveC426913
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I've checked thesauri and asked AI and I just cannot find the right word.
This is a story set in pre-history (20,000BCE), about a group (~ dozen) of children and youths between 4 and 14 who are fleeing their village.
I'm 16,000 words in and still no joy.
I am frequently writing how this person or that person catches up to the X, or how the X camped for the night.
The children would be great except they're not all children. And youths-and-children is too awkward.
Troupe is about right but it sounds too modern.
Same with party, company and band.
It's not a tribe (it's a fragment of a tribe).
Likewise clan.
Group is too generic.
Fellowship, of course, has been used.
I've checked synonyms for each of those words too.
Help?
Can I use brood to refer to the whole group of children and youths - even if the youths are the de facto leaders? It's kind of synonymous with family, but is it in the right way?
This is a story set in pre-history (20,000BCE), about a group (~ dozen) of children and youths between 4 and 14 who are fleeing their village.
I'm 16,000 words in and still no joy.
I am frequently writing how this person or that person catches up to the X, or how the X camped for the night.
The children would be great except they're not all children. And youths-and-children is too awkward.
Troupe is about right but it sounds too modern.
Same with party, company and band.
It's not a tribe (it's a fragment of a tribe).
Likewise clan.
Group is too generic.
Fellowship, of course, has been used.
I've checked synonyms for each of those words too.
Help?
Can I use brood to refer to the whole group of children and youths - even if the youths are the de facto leaders? It's kind of synonymous with family, but is it in the right way?