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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6670593" data-attributes="member: 20323">The Verguenzas (Arawak family)Luca nods cautiously to Etienne's words then raises his head off the hammock to look curiously at the calumet pipe. "Council? Maybe back in the day. But now there's only one cacique left. He's out on the boats, but should come in soon for midday meal." As he speaks, a young woman and her boy depart the old green house, nodding thankfully to a shape in the doorway before setting onto the road up the valley. Raises his brows, Luca rolls out of the hammock. "Come on, fur hat. Grandfather is done with his patient. Komiauk! Komiauk!" He calls out as he approaches the house with the stranger, waving to his grandfather.The man in the doorway is neither bent with age, nor shriveled by time, nor is he missing teeth or losing his hair. Despite being in his elder years, his body remains strong and his light brown eyes almost shine against the backdrop of clear white eyes. He speaks in perfect English as he wipes his hands in a cloth smelling of alcohol, "What is it Luca? Ah, fur hat, I knew it was only a matter of time before our paths crossed. The halaso (sea turtle) told me you were coming." Standing aside to let Etienne in, he gestures impatiently to Luca, "Keep an eye out when the cacique lands and let me know at once. Come in, come in."While on the exterior the house seems like many family homes in Nassau, there are a distinct lack of chairs, with cushions on the floor for seating, and a central stone hearth rather than one placed on the side. Dozens of totems hang from the walls, along with a prominent crucifix, and a table with several physician's tools, English medical texts, and alembics that are quite surprising to see in such an environment. Pouring an earthen cup of tea smelling of mint and mushrooms, Komiauk the piaiman hands it to Etienne and then lights a ceremonial bundle of dried tobacco. Waving it down Etienne's front and back, he performs a ritual cleansing before setting the tobacco down in an earthen vessel to smolder. "Why have you come, fur hat?"</blockquote>

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