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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 302544" data-attributes="member: 1125">He watched.The woman would come. Every evening she came, down from the village in the warm afternoons to swim in the lagoon, and then to bath the salt off in the pools.He remembered when he first saw her.Her people had come trading, bringing bags of kumara and taro, preserved pigeon and the sharp black obsidian stone, used for cutting blades and weapons. Obsidian was so abundant in her homeland that the island was named for it - Tuhua.From his perch beneath a coastal ledge he had felt the disturbance of the sea current which indicated a fleet of ships. Rising to the surface he had spied seven ships, and their in the leaders vessel he had seen her, a woman with beauty like none he’d ever seen before. A form supple and strong, an eveness of nose and eyes, a golden complexion, he was enchanted, he had to have her.Her people had stayed eight nights at Te Mafera before returning home, and he had followed, and at Tuhua had stopped and watched, learning her ways.He watched her now.Five nights he had waited here, spending the days planning his actions, and he had resolved to take her. He had found a split a peice of kelp to make a  poha, a watertight kelp bag big enough to envelop a human form, and tonight he would make his move.The woman Waitaiki  would be his.As for Waitaiki, she knew nothing of this scheme.Waitaki was happy, she was but recently married to the rangatira of Tuhua and delighted in the comfort and relative wealth which the black stone gave to the Leader of the Tuhua Islanders. Since marrying the rangatira. Waitaki had made it a ritual to come each day to the sea and swim in the lagoon before bathing in the fresh water pools. She loved the caress of the warm water over her body and each evening would first send her attendants away before closing her eyes to dream.It was while she dreamed that Poutini came. He was a great hulking thing a creature of the sea covered in green scales with large eyes and hair like strands of kelp. It had both arms and legs both ending in webbed and taloned claws and so could move about on land provided that its body remained moist and cool. This tipua was not usually antagonistic towards people and it was his overwhelming desire that drove him to seize the woman Waitaki in his great strong arms and subdue her as she struggled in terror and longing to escape some terrible fate.  Poutini Stats still to come. Probably just a normal Aquatic Ogre</blockquote>

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