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<blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2249736" data-attributes="member: 7280"><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Dogim! Mailasae! Miko! Gather up your brothers and sisters!</span>" Shuelsai shouted, probably a little bit louder than needful but his papa never spared <em>his</em> ears and it never gave a harm. Once everyone was gathered around the crude table in the tiny hut, he spoke paused. It was incredibly unfair of him, of course. Children need their parents. He frowned, thinking of the dream. Damned and double damned! He was too old to be called off on some task for the gods. Surely the powers misspoke or queered their aim when tossing portents, perhaps he had gotten the dream meant for someone else. He asked.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Dogim, you are growing to be a man now. Have you had any dreams from the gods telling you your path?</span>"</p><p></p><p>The young boy shifted uncomfortably and looked to his brothers and sisters for support or explanation.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Papa, I'm going to be a great fisherman one day - like you!</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">No! Foolish child, don't tell me what you think I wish to hear or what you think. Tell me if the gods have told you that they have a task for you!</span>"</p><p></p><p>Dogim looked at him like he'd been sleeping under a hala nut tree that afternoon.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">No Papa, unless they mean for me to finish knotting your nets for tomorrow like you asked me to?</span>" Dogim suddenly grinned with the pride of a young man scoring a barb upon an old sailfish. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I've finished those this morning Papa. I only went to the village to-</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">-To see that pretty Kiri that's been swishing her hips at you since the last moon,</span>" Shuelsai finished smoothly, causing the younger children to titter and Dogim's face to heat. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">The gods have whispered no more exciting plans for you then?</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">No, why would the gods speak to me at all? Who am I in the grand scheme of things that the gods would even notice me?</span>"</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Who indeed?</span>" Shuelsai murmured, as much to himself as to anyone else, as his children looked on with concern.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Dogim, your Papa is going away for a while. I do not know how long I will be gone or where I am going, but I shall endeavor to inform you more when I know more about my task. Miko, Mailasae? You must see that your younger brothers and sisters are fed and wash behind their ears properly. Do you understand? I know this is sudden, but I trust you all to show to me how grown up you all are and how obedient. All of you help tend the lines and the nets and watch out for the youngest ones. Keep on your letters and do as Dogim tells you to do. Dogim, no running off to flirt with girls or ignoring your brothers and sisters to meet with them on Misi Island. You hear me? I am going to leave you all some money to use for emergencies, but this isn't for sweet rice or beaded sandals!</span>" He looked each of the solemn and fearful-looking children in turn, nodding sternly at his eldest son until he suddenly broke out into an enormous grin.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">Cheer up! Without your Papa here, there's only your good sense to guide you - something of which I have every confidence I have raised you all to have in surplus. You are all the beats of and between my heart, I shall return soon and we will all share the tales of adventures we have had. Plus,</span>" he continued slyly with a wink, "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I promise to bring you all sweet rices aplenty when I return!</span>"</p><p></p><p>The children giggled, even the oldest ones who tried to hide it, and he gathered everyone in an enormous pile of squirming, smiling children.</p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">I will go to the village on my way of leaving and ask Essai the Builder to come out tomorrow. He owes me a favor for last year's mending and aiding the birthing of his goats, so maybe he will come to check on you some and maybe,</span>" he said looking at Dogim, "<span style="color: SandyBrown">Maybe he will help some of you young <em>nai</em> learn something of his craft in the evenings. That is, as long as you still see to your brothers and sisters and the melon fields as well.</span>"</p><p></p><p>Dogim's eyes grew wide and his mouth gaped, as he had been pestering his father to speak on an apprenticeship with the Builder since he was knee high to a pig.</p><p></p><p>The rest of the day was spent in specifics, and much crying from the youngest children and his daughters. Despite his own doubts and fears, Shuelsai smiled at each soothingly and ruffled their napes playfully in turn. As promised he turned his small craft up the river as he set sail and spoke with his cousin Essai before he left. Essai was less enthusiastic about repaying his debts than Shuelsai implied to his children. A quiet word to one of his pretty young wives settled things. The youngest sister of Shuelsai's second wife, he reminded her that his family and her own were joined like dobbers and sandfleas, and pinched her cheeks and tickled her like he did when she was a child with a wink. A man, even an important man like Essai, couldn't allow discontent to grow inside his own home. Reluctantly, and then graciously, Essai eventually even began to realize the potential benefits of having young boys around to aid him in his labors before his own sons were old enough.</p><p></p><p>It was late at night when Shuelsai stumbled out of the hut and waved drunkenly behind him to his hosts and the life he lived before. Stupid gods, no sense at all, calling an old man out of his sleep and telling him to leave his family. He heaved the lines to cast off. </p><p></p><p>"<span style="color: SandyBrown">I don't even know where I'm going!</span>" he said aloud to the sea, as he raised the sail. Then he grinned, his gap-toothed smile radiating amusement. "<span style="color: SandyBrown">I'm as crazy as they are, then.</span>" He laughed until a wheezing cough broke his revelry. </p><p></p><p>Ah well, he thought. Who am I to question the gods? A new dawn was just breaking the horizon as he lazily pulled a rag over his eyes to close his eyes some and let the tides take him where they will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Heard, post: 2249736, member: 7280"] "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Dogim! Mailasae! Miko! Gather up your brothers and sisters![/COLOR]" Shuelsai shouted, probably a little bit louder than needful but his papa never spared [i]his[/i] ears and it never gave a harm. Once everyone was gathered around the crude table in the tiny hut, he spoke paused. It was incredibly unfair of him, of course. Children need their parents. He frowned, thinking of the dream. Damned and double damned! He was too old to be called off on some task for the gods. Surely the powers misspoke or queered their aim when tossing portents, perhaps he had gotten the dream meant for someone else. He asked. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Dogim, you are growing to be a man now. Have you had any dreams from the gods telling you your path?[/COLOR]" The young boy shifted uncomfortably and looked to his brothers and sisters for support or explanation. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Papa, I'm going to be a great fisherman one day - like you![/COLOR]" "[COLOR=SandyBrown]No! Foolish child, don't tell me what you think I wish to hear or what you think. Tell me if the gods have told you that they have a task for you![/COLOR]" Dogim looked at him like he'd been sleeping under a hala nut tree that afternoon. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]No Papa, unless they mean for me to finish knotting your nets for tomorrow like you asked me to?[/COLOR]" Dogim suddenly grinned with the pride of a young man scoring a barb upon an old sailfish. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]I've finished those this morning Papa. I only went to the village to-[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=SandyBrown]-To see that pretty Kiri that's been swishing her hips at you since the last moon,[/COLOR]" Shuelsai finished smoothly, causing the younger children to titter and Dogim's face to heat. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]The gods have whispered no more exciting plans for you then?[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=SandyBrown]No, why would the gods speak to me at all? Who am I in the grand scheme of things that the gods would even notice me?[/COLOR]" "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Who indeed?[/COLOR]" Shuelsai murmured, as much to himself as to anyone else, as his children looked on with concern. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Dogim, your Papa is going away for a while. I do not know how long I will be gone or where I am going, but I shall endeavor to inform you more when I know more about my task. Miko, Mailasae? You must see that your younger brothers and sisters are fed and wash behind their ears properly. Do you understand? I know this is sudden, but I trust you all to show to me how grown up you all are and how obedient. All of you help tend the lines and the nets and watch out for the youngest ones. Keep on your letters and do as Dogim tells you to do. Dogim, no running off to flirt with girls or ignoring your brothers and sisters to meet with them on Misi Island. You hear me? I am going to leave you all some money to use for emergencies, but this isn't for sweet rice or beaded sandals![/COLOR]" He looked each of the solemn and fearful-looking children in turn, nodding sternly at his eldest son until he suddenly broke out into an enormous grin. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Cheer up! Without your Papa here, there's only your good sense to guide you - something of which I have every confidence I have raised you all to have in surplus. You are all the beats of and between my heart, I shall return soon and we will all share the tales of adventures we have had. Plus,[/COLOR]" he continued slyly with a wink, "[COLOR=SandyBrown]I promise to bring you all sweet rices aplenty when I return![/COLOR]" The children giggled, even the oldest ones who tried to hide it, and he gathered everyone in an enormous pile of squirming, smiling children. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]I will go to the village on my way of leaving and ask Essai the Builder to come out tomorrow. He owes me a favor for last year's mending and aiding the birthing of his goats, so maybe he will come to check on you some and maybe,[/COLOR]" he said looking at Dogim, "[COLOR=SandyBrown]Maybe he will help some of you young [i]nai[/i] learn something of his craft in the evenings. That is, as long as you still see to your brothers and sisters and the melon fields as well.[/COLOR]" Dogim's eyes grew wide and his mouth gaped, as he had been pestering his father to speak on an apprenticeship with the Builder since he was knee high to a pig. The rest of the day was spent in specifics, and much crying from the youngest children and his daughters. Despite his own doubts and fears, Shuelsai smiled at each soothingly and ruffled their napes playfully in turn. As promised he turned his small craft up the river as he set sail and spoke with his cousin Essai before he left. Essai was less enthusiastic about repaying his debts than Shuelsai implied to his children. A quiet word to one of his pretty young wives settled things. The youngest sister of Shuelsai's second wife, he reminded her that his family and her own were joined like dobbers and sandfleas, and pinched her cheeks and tickled her like he did when she was a child with a wink. A man, even an important man like Essai, couldn't allow discontent to grow inside his own home. Reluctantly, and then graciously, Essai eventually even began to realize the potential benefits of having young boys around to aid him in his labors before his own sons were old enough. It was late at night when Shuelsai stumbled out of the hut and waved drunkenly behind him to his hosts and the life he lived before. Stupid gods, no sense at all, calling an old man out of his sleep and telling him to leave his family. He heaved the lines to cast off. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]I don't even know where I'm going![/COLOR]" he said aloud to the sea, as he raised the sail. Then he grinned, his gap-toothed smile radiating amusement. "[COLOR=SandyBrown]I'm as crazy as they are, then.[/COLOR]" He laughed until a wheezing cough broke his revelry. Ah well, he thought. Who am I to question the gods? A new dawn was just breaking the horizon as he lazily pulled a rag over his eyes to close his eyes some and let the tides take him where they will. [/QUOTE]
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