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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argent Silvermage" data-source="post: 1011748" data-attributes="member: 4322">TatikiTatiki looked at the people around him and smiled. These people had found him adrift in the ocean and without any thought (at least that Tatiki knew of) took him in and raised him. He was tall and fair complicated next to the other islanders. His green eyes and light brown hair instantly giving away his heritage, Tatiki was Urukehu. Snapping from his reverie Tatiki pulled on the nets in his hand, bringing more fish up to the shore.“Tiki!” Cried his father Wuhari. “Those fish wont catch themselves. Roamu Give your brother a hand, He’s dreaming of the out lands again.” Roamu was everything Tatiki was not. He was a bit slow mentally and physically put a true powerhouse when it came to strength. He grabbed the fishing net and gave a pull toppling Tatiki into the surf and launching the fishing net and the fish in it into the air.Hiama Tatiki’s mother laughed watching her family. She was too busy with the cooking to help her sons but clearly the women of the village could accomplish nothing without her. Getting up from his backside Tatiki called to his father, “That’s the last of the nets Papa! I’m off to check the crab cages.” And dove into the sparkling ocean.As soon as he was in water more than 4 feet deep, Mou came to him. She was his trusted companion, a porpoise who had befriended him when he got her disentangled from his father’s nets. While he was not the swimmer she was, Tatiki tried his hardest to keep pace with her, proving why he was known as one of the great swimmers of his tribe. The traps were full and he and Mou brought them to the surface. He kissed Mou on the snout and took the traps out of the water. Handing them to his father. Wuhari took them and winced with pain. He was not well and even Tatiki’s healing charms were no match for the shark that took his father’s leg a week ago. Tiki cursed himself for not being there to aid his father until it was too late. But he did kill the shark and took its teeth and covered his fighting staff with them. The staff was a truly mean piece of work and Tiki was forbidden to bring it in the house for fear Roamu might play with it and harm himself. But over the week Tatiki had learned to master his new weapon, and even Chief Makea Takanui noticed the weapon and had requested Tatiki make him one, so Tiki had been working on another to gift to the Chief himself, a great honor. The Chief’s staff was made of polished coconut wood and had only the largest teeth Tatiki could find imbedded in it and the grips were wrapped in the finest lizard skins Tatiki could hunt. The whole thing was wrapped in the skin of the shark that had attacked his father, Tatiki having cured and fashioned it into a cloak for the Chief to wear.As he sat putting the finishing touches on some jewelry he was making for Shoshoi his girlfriend. Tatiki looked up and saw one of his friends approaching…</blockquote>

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