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This is in part a side path to This, focusing extensively on the idea of the borrowers(along the lines of the fantasy stories by Mary Norton).
As a concept, Borrowers are a race of tiny, humanoid creatures that live in the shadow of "the Big People"(everything else). Because they are such a small race, they cannot build or manipulate the world around them to the same extent as "the Big people", so they instead live in the shadows of their civilizations, "borrowing" small objects and items to support their small colonies and havens. they "pay" the former owners of these objects with items and objects of their own. Since they are so small, they actually are at quite a risk from the "big people", with most encounters ending in swift and brutally violent deaths for the borrowers involved.
Yet some borrowers form actual bonds with the big people and help them with their problems, or are