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Clanluna
Chapter 48: Zeen comes of age.
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Everarđ Član of the Članlűna list
Radošević (22) – Other, Leader
---Hvarđa (19) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Mihovilović’s former slave, Hrda’s daughter, clanluna, Radošević’s Mate
------Nežžie (3) – Other, Hvarda’s daughter
Laušić (69) – Other, toolmaker (disappeared)
---Jekić (67) – Other, Laušić’s Mate (disappeared)
---Haža (49) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Laušić’s 2nd Mate
Šimič (61) – Other, (disappeared)
---Jukiča (55) Other, Šimič’s Mate, Winemaker
Ružićain (41) - Other
---Jukić (40) – Other, Ružićain’s Mate (disappeared)
------Ružić (10) – Other, Jukić’s son,
------Jukiča (2) – Other, Jukić’s daughter,
Mišić (36) - Other
---Joković (34) – Other, Mišić’s Mate (disappeared)
------Moković (11) – Other, Joković’s son,
------Điškovič (8) – Other, Joković’s daughter,
------Laušić (2) – Other, Joković’s son,
Skejić (30) - Other
--- Đukiča (27) – Other, Skejić’s Mate, (disappeared)
------Đejič (9) – Other, Đukiča’s daughter,
------Skekić (6) Other Đukiča’s son
------Đažača (1) –Other Đukiča’s daughter
------Ođa (1) – ½ Clan adopted Daughter of Đukiča
Nikolić (28) – Other (disappeared)
---Đoković (26) – Other, Nikolič’s Mate
------Niković (9) – Other, Đoković’s son,
------Űba (2) – ½ Clan, adopted daughter of Đoković
Miškpvić (27) – Other (disappeared)
---Huža (23) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Ružićain’s former slave, Miškpvić’s Mate
------Groobviča (3) - ½ Clan, Huža’s daughter
Pecotić (23) – Other (disappeared)
---Đuže (16) – Other, Đuča’s daughter
------Đišič (14) – Other, Joković’s daughter,
“Mother, is there any way that you can delay my taking a Mate?” asked Zeen.
“Why, don’t you want to mate a woman?” signed Luna, without thinking. Then, it dawned on her! “Oh! You want to mate a man?”
“What!” cried Zeen. “No! Why would this boy want to mate a man? How could this boy mate a man?!?”
“Well, you know how Ayla, and this woman, like to Share Pleasures, sometimes by ourselves?” asked Luna, as she watched her son blush. “Well, some women like to Share Pleasures only with women. It’s the same with men. There are some men who only like to Share Pleasures with other men.”
“Eeeeewwww!!!” said Zeen, with a shudder. “No, this boy liked his manhood training and plans to Share Pleasures with women after he becomes a man! It’s just . . .just . . . . Griga.”
“Griga?” asked Luna, in disbelief. “She’s not yet a woman and won’t be for several years.”
“This boy knows that,” admitted Zeen. “But this boy was kind of hoping that Griga would be my Mate when she does become a woman.”
Luna looked at her son, suspiciously.
“You haven’t tried Relieving your Needs with her, have you?” demanded Luna
“No! No! She’s too young for that!” waved Zeen, shocked. “We get along pretty well, considering she’s just a child and this Weez-Ur was thinking that since this boy is The Mog-Ur’s acolyte and she’s the Clanluna’s daughter and acolyte that she would make a perfect Mate for me.”
“It will be many years before she’s grown,” pointed out Luna. “What if you go without a Mate all those years and she picks someone else?”
“This boy is willing to take that risk,” admitted Zeen.
“How about this: if a woman chooses you, you tell her how you feel. If she’s willing to be your 2nd woman, even though she mated you first, you’ll take her as a mate?” offered Luna. “Of course, right now there aren’t any available women in our Clan, unless a woman leaves her mate. But you might meet a girl, next summer, from one of the other Clans.”
“This boy will think on it,” agreed Zeen.
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Late in the fall, Zeen was taken on his manhood hunt, and was successful!
After the Hunt dance and his Manhood Ceremony Goov escorted him back into the special chamber set aside for Men’s Ceremonies. Although Zeen had been present at many Men’s Ceremonies to help in his capacity as acolyte, this would be his first time as a participant.
It started off normal enough. The men drank their tea and started meditation on their memories. But then, Goov felt a presence seize his mind! He could feel minds of the other men linked together as they all viewed the same memories. At the center, was the shining presence of Zeen’s mind directing them back through the Clan memories that only some of them had, back to the common ancestor of the Clan and the Others. Then Zeen brought them forward through the Other’s memories of what turned out to be Ranec’s Mother’s line, then, back down the memories of Ranec’s father’s line to his common ancestor with Thonlan. Now they were going forward through the memories of Thonlan’s ancestors until they reached the man, born to the Zelandonii, then, back through his ancestors again until they reached his common ancestor with Zar. They came forward through the Other memories of Zar’s father’s line, Then, back through the Clan memories of Zar’s mother until they reached the Clan that shared an origin with their own. Now they found themselves going forward through the memories of Zeen’s forefathers until the paused briefly on Creb. The one-eyed Mog-Ur seemed to look deeply into Goov’s mind until they all came back to the present. It was morning now.
While the other men were able to return to their hearths and sleep, Goov stirred, restlessly! He glanced out the cave at the women sprawled naked where they’d passed out during their Women’s ceremony. Goov couldn’t get over what had happened last night! Even Creb had not been so good at taking them back into the memories!
Goov watched each of the women wake up, gather their wrap or dress and return to their hearths to sleep the rest of the morning. As usual, Luna was one of the last to awaken. When at last she stood up, grabbed her dress and walked back to her hearth, Goov went to meet her.
“Is something wrong?” asked Luna, when she saw The Mog-Ur approach.
He never needed to speak with her after a night of ceremonies. Her ‘sight’ and his posture told her he had something important to say.
“The Mog-Ur would speak with his Leader,” signed Goov, formally.
Luna laid her dress on the floor of the cave and sat on it, naked, patting the ground to indicate that The Mog-Ur should join her.
“What’s on your mind?” asked Luna.
“This is not a easy thing to discuss with a woman,” signed Goov. “What goes on at the Men’s Ceremonies, is not for the eyes of women, even if you are the Great Mother as Clanluna believes. However, during the Ceremony Zeen showed this mog-ur that he is more skilled than me . . . more skilled than Creb! It’s time for me to retire . . . Zeen should be our mog-ur . . . Zeen should be The Mog-Ur of all Clans, everywhere!”
It was only a few days away, so they waited until it was Creb’s time. Luna, Goov and Zeen went into the burial chamber alone. When they came out, Zeen was wearing Goov’s bear skin cloak, for Zeen was now, their Clan’s mog-ur!
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(That owl is getting old!) thought Luna.
“Mother could you help me?” asked Zeen. “Now that this Weez-Ur is mog-ur, he would like to make his Ursus Cloak, more like your Eagle Hat. I used transfiguration to repair the damage from years of use by my predecessors, Creb and Goov, but I’ll need some help with the Charms to animate the head.”
Luna turned her attention away from Ansalong, and her latest mouse capture, to smile enigmatically at her son. Although she and Ayla were teaching 4th year Hogwarts material to Zeen and Iza, What he was asking was N.E.W.T. level charms. When they were done, the finished product was impressive!
“This Leader thinks you should hide this until next time you perform a ceremony as mog-ur,” suggested Luna.
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Like his father before him, Zeen stayed away from the women and didn’t Relieve his Needs with them. When it came time for the Mother Festival, there was a bit of a scrum to see who would get to dance with him first, which Ruža won. She didn’t even wait for the mushrooms to take effect, but instead, drug him back to a guest hearth to have her way with him. Iga was a bit shocked that she would want to do that with her former son-in-hearth, but let it pass, so as not to disrupt the Festival.
The couple was late to go back to their hearths the next morning, and when they finally did, Ruža was glowing with happiness! As soon as she got back to her mate, she hugged herself before giving Broov the Signal.
Zar turned away from staring into Broov’s hearth to speak to his Mate.
“Ruža seems very happy this morning,” signed Zar. “Zeen must have treated her right, last night.”
“Of course, aren’t you supposed to treat your partner well at a Mother Festival?” replied Ayla. “From the sounds Luna was making, this woman is pretty sure you were treating her right, just as this woman gave her best to Ranec.”
“You did sound like he was Relieving your Needs, as well,” mused Zar.
“Yes, he is quite good at Pleasures, though no man has ever Relieved my Need as well as you can,” agreed Ayla, as her face flushed beet red.
“Yes, Iga has told this man that he is the best one at Relieving women’s Needs in this Clan,” replied Zar. “And she should know. Though, she did tell me that Zeen proved to be quite talented last summer.”
“Yes, did you know that she felt her totem get defeated by Zeen the first day of his training?” pointed out Ayla.
“She told, me,” signed Zar. “Luna thinks it will be a boy.”
“She’s probably right,” agreed Ayla. “Luna’s much better at Divination than this Weech!”
“This man has been thinking . . .” signed Zar. “ . . .This man is getting too old for 1st Rites . . . since he’s so skilled, perhaps Zeen should start performing them. . .”
“This woman thinks Ruža might agree with you,” snickered Ayla, as Ruža’s moans echoed through the cave.
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Luna turned out to be right. Iga delivered a boy with her red hair and Zeen’s gray eyes. She named him: Ood.
Luna had a girl with her dirty-blonde hair and emerald-green eyes that she named: Thonda.
Ayla had a red-haired, green eyed baby girl that look a lot like Iga.
“Looks like animals were not the only things you caught all those time you ‘went hunting’ with Sungaea men last summer,” joked Zar. “Let’s name her: Zara!”
Ova had another mixed daughter, she named: Ova.
Ona had a mixed son that was obviously of Ranec’s spirit, that she named: Grod.
Uma had a Clan son that was named: Boom.
Đukić had a mixed daughter that was named Đorča.
And the last birth of the winter was to Bona, a Clan son named: Borv
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When Luna, saw the woman swim over to where she was floating in the sea, after speaking with Iga. Luna lifted her head and turned to Hvarda, who was clanluna of the Everarđ Clan.
“You don’t have to ask Iga’s permission every time you want to talk to me” waved Luna. “Now what’s wrong?”
Hvarda flushed with embarrassment. She always found speaking with her Goddess to be disconcerting.
“We first noticed something was wrong when we returned from the Summer Gathering last year,” began Hvarda. “As you know, we hadn’t formally hived off of the Đumbleđore Član until the end of the Summer Gathering. When we arrived, we discovered that Đumbleđore Član’š cave had been ransacked. It’s fortunate that we’d returned with so many supplies.
Our Član moved to a cave we knew of, that was North of Đumbleđore Član’š. Our cave was a little closer to the local Član’š cave. As you know, we’d been adopting the mixed babies that the Član leaves exposed. When we sent Pecotić to scout for one, he didn’t return. We thought the Član was holding him hostage. So we sent a group to negotiate for his release. That’s when we discovered that the local Član was missing. Every man, woman and child was gone. And their possessions were ransacked, as ours had been.
Since then, more of our people have disappeared, nine in all. The only common circumstance is that each left our cave alone and never returned!”
“Bring all your possessions to the Summer Gathering,” commanded Luna. “This Weech will look into it, and the Council will discuss it.
Krstu?”
“Yes Luna?” called the clanluna of the Đumbleđore Clan, in a reverent tone that suggested she really meant: “Yes Goddess”
“Your Clan should do the same,” suggested Luna.
After the two Clans had gathered the possessions, Luna shrank them and portkeyed the Summer Festival, which her Abraxas Clan was hosting.
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The Clanluna Summer Gathering was the usual mix of hunting, gathering, competitions, and socializing. Zeen continued to give people Cave bear rides and when they found berries, Luna and Ayla made popsicles.
It was early in the Summer Gathering, when Zeen was called on to give 1st Rites to Đišič, an Everarđ girl. Luna gave a knowing smile when she saw the brunet, hazel-eyed girl being escorted into the teepee by the clanlunae. She’d seen Zeen with this girl before, in a vision.
Ura had become a red-foot this summer for Corg, Ika’s son. Durc was extremely jealous of her time spend teaching the Clan boy to Relieve women’s Needs. But he showed no outward sign as he knew her summer as a red-foot was part of her training as a clanluna. He wanted his Clan to have one, but since Goov had agreed to be his mog-ur, he was prepared to do without a clanluna it Ura wasn’t ready at the end of the summer.
Many of the Everarđ Clan had lost their mates over the winter and had waited for the Summer Festival to ‘officially’ become mated, so that their Goddess could be there.
Even before the Everarđ Clan members came out of their isolation, Luna had been convening the Leadership Council to discuss the situation back in the Đumbleđore and Everarđ lands. Since the Council was already meeting, this gave people a chance to use the council to settle other disputes. With this many people in one place, such disputes naturally occurred.
Luna spotted Groob dragging a pair of young women to where the Council was meeting by their arms that were both bruised. They were both trying to resist the Clan man but were no match for his powerful muscles. When he reached where the council was sitting in a circle, Groob released the two young women. They were both Brunets with Hazel eyes. One of them was the girl Zeen had performed 1st Rites for.
“These two were caught fighting,” signed Groob.
“What was this fight about?” inquired Luna.
“I overheard Jukičva telling another woman that she was going to ask Zeen to be her Mate and I told her she couldn’t have him, as I was already planning to ask for him!” rambled Đišič, of the Everarđ Clan, while the Đumbleđore woman, flushed with embarrassment at her actions.
“HELP!” signed Zeen, as his gray eyes pleaded with his mother’s.
“Fighting is not an acceptable activity for girl and certainly isn’t for young women!” waved Luna.
“Might this Clanluna suggest that we tie their arms together for the rest of the Summer Gathering,” offered Iga. “That’s how we handled these sorts of problem in the Sungaea.”
“Good idea!” signed Luna. “Groob?”
The toolmaker of Luna’s Abraxas Clan, tied left arm of the Đumbleđore woman to the right arm of the Everarđ woman.
“Now has anyone any ideas on how to deal with the disappearances amongst the Everarđ Clan?” asked Luna as everyone shook their heads.
The Đanađananđa extermination of the Harvatišaranaa had been an unplanned event. They didn’t have any professional warriors. They had simply turned the techniques they used for hunting to hunting people.
And Luna hadn’t brought any tactical knowledge with her from the future. She simply wasn’t very tactical minded. She didn’t like competitive games. That’s why she was never any good at chess.
“Ayla, Zeen, Aslan, Bangar, please stay,” commanded Luna as the Council Meeting Broke up. “Iga, could you go find Iza?”
“Yes, Luna,” signed Iga, before going to look for Iza.
“So what’s up?” asked Aslancles, in English.
“This Weech thought we might try divination as a way of looking into the Everarđ problem,” replied Luna, before pulling her crystal ball out of her pocket and enlarging it. “Since Zeen and Iza are studying their second year of Divination, this Weech thought it might be a good opportunity for them to practice.”
After Luna set the crystal ball in the center of the circle and most of them began staring into it, Aslancles extended a claw and began poking marks in the ground, starting the process of casting a geomancy chart. Once he had 16 sets of marks he added each set up to get odd or even numbers so he could make geomantic figures. The then, began combining the figures until his had computed 12 of them. He then scratched a square of house and put the figures in them. After converting the 1st figure into an astrological sign and progressively laying out the other signs from there, the sphinx then, converted each sign to it’s corresponding planet. Finally he drew aspects between the planets, before interpreting the chart.
When Iza arrived, she quietly joined the others in the circle and began scrying into the crystal ball.
“So, why are women attacking the Everarđ Clan?” asked Aslancles.
“I got an impression of wolves and women at the same time,” said Ayla, in English. “Do you think they could be werewolves?”
“And how come they get to eat people but I can’t?” asked Aslancles.
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After a couple of hours of Divination, Luna wanted to unwind before starting dinner for her family. Spotting Vođanović, a good looking man from Đumbleđore Clan, Luna sauntered over to him.
“Would you like to go hunting?” asked Luna.
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The two girls had kept to themselves for several days. Being tied together, they were constantly in each other’s company. And when seen, were always in deep, but increasingly friendly, conversation.
Zeen had his wand out, trying to use transfiguration to turn raw flint into finely knapped tools. He was so intent of his task, he didn’t see them come up until they spoke, in unison.
“Would you like to go hunting?” asked Jukičva and Dišič, in unison.
Zeen shattered the stone he had been working on!
“Uh- . . . with both of you?” stammered Zeen. “How are you going to wield a spear like that?”
“No! No! We don’t want to go hunting with you,” giggled Jukičva. “We want to go ‘hunting’ with you!”
“Oh,” said Zeen, not understanding. Then his eyes widened suddenly. “Ooooooh!
With both of you are once?”
Blushing, the women both nodded at him.
Chapter 48: Zeen comes of age.
Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling
Earth’s Children is owned by Jean Auel
Everarđ Član of the Članlűna list
Radošević (22) – Other, Leader
---Hvarđa (19) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Mihovilović’s former slave, Hrda’s daughter, clanluna, Radošević’s Mate
------Nežžie (3) – Other, Hvarda’s daughter
Laušić (69) – Other, toolmaker (disappeared)
---Jekić (67) – Other, Laušić’s Mate (disappeared)
---Haža (49) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Laušić’s 2nd Mate
Šimič (61) – Other, (disappeared)
---Jukiča (55) Other, Šimič’s Mate, Winemaker
Ružićain (41) - Other
---Jukić (40) – Other, Ružićain’s Mate (disappeared)
------Ružić (10) – Other, Jukić’s son,
------Jukiča (2) – Other, Jukić’s daughter,
Mišić (36) - Other
---Joković (34) – Other, Mišić’s Mate (disappeared)
------Moković (11) – Other, Joković’s son,
------Điškovič (8) – Other, Joković’s daughter,
------Laušić (2) – Other, Joković’s son,
Skejić (30) - Other
--- Đukiča (27) – Other, Skejić’s Mate, (disappeared)
------Đejič (9) – Other, Đukiča’s daughter,
------Skekić (6) Other Đukiča’s son
------Đažača (1) –Other Đukiča’s daughter
------Ođa (1) – ½ Clan adopted Daughter of Đukiča
Nikolić (28) – Other (disappeared)
---Đoković (26) – Other, Nikolič’s Mate
------Niković (9) – Other, Đoković’s son,
------Űba (2) – ½ Clan, adopted daughter of Đoković
Miškpvić (27) – Other (disappeared)
---Huža (23) - Other, (formerly of the Harvatišaranaa), Ružićain’s former slave, Miškpvić’s Mate
------Groobviča (3) - ½ Clan, Huža’s daughter
Pecotić (23) – Other (disappeared)
---Đuže (16) – Other, Đuča’s daughter
------Đišič (14) – Other, Joković’s daughter,
“Mother, is there any way that you can delay my taking a Mate?” asked Zeen.
“Why, don’t you want to mate a woman?” signed Luna, without thinking. Then, it dawned on her! “Oh! You want to mate a man?”
“What!” cried Zeen. “No! Why would this boy want to mate a man? How could this boy mate a man?!?”
“Well, you know how Ayla, and this woman, like to Share Pleasures, sometimes by ourselves?” asked Luna, as she watched her son blush. “Well, some women like to Share Pleasures only with women. It’s the same with men. There are some men who only like to Share Pleasures with other men.”
“Eeeeewwww!!!” said Zeen, with a shudder. “No, this boy liked his manhood training and plans to Share Pleasures with women after he becomes a man! It’s just . . .just . . . . Griga.”
“Griga?” asked Luna, in disbelief. “She’s not yet a woman and won’t be for several years.”
“This boy knows that,” admitted Zeen. “But this boy was kind of hoping that Griga would be my Mate when she does become a woman.”
Luna looked at her son, suspiciously.
“You haven’t tried Relieving your Needs with her, have you?” demanded Luna
“No! No! She’s too young for that!” waved Zeen, shocked. “We get along pretty well, considering she’s just a child and this Weez-Ur was thinking that since this boy is The Mog-Ur’s acolyte and she’s the Clanluna’s daughter and acolyte that she would make a perfect Mate for me.”
“It will be many years before she’s grown,” pointed out Luna. “What if you go without a Mate all those years and she picks someone else?”
“This boy is willing to take that risk,” admitted Zeen.
“How about this: if a woman chooses you, you tell her how you feel. If she’s willing to be your 2nd woman, even though she mated you first, you’ll take her as a mate?” offered Luna. “Of course, right now there aren’t any available women in our Clan, unless a woman leaves her mate. But you might meet a girl, next summer, from one of the other Clans.”
“This boy will think on it,” agreed Zeen.
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Late in the fall, Zeen was taken on his manhood hunt, and was successful!
After the Hunt dance and his Manhood Ceremony Goov escorted him back into the special chamber set aside for Men’s Ceremonies. Although Zeen had been present at many Men’s Ceremonies to help in his capacity as acolyte, this would be his first time as a participant.
It started off normal enough. The men drank their tea and started meditation on their memories. But then, Goov felt a presence seize his mind! He could feel minds of the other men linked together as they all viewed the same memories. At the center, was the shining presence of Zeen’s mind directing them back through the Clan memories that only some of them had, back to the common ancestor of the Clan and the Others. Then Zeen brought them forward through the Other’s memories of what turned out to be Ranec’s Mother’s line, then, back down the memories of Ranec’s father’s line to his common ancestor with Thonlan. Now they were going forward through the memories of Thonlan’s ancestors until they reached the man, born to the Zelandonii, then, back through his ancestors again until they reached his common ancestor with Zar. They came forward through the Other memories of Zar’s father’s line, Then, back through the Clan memories of Zar’s mother until they reached the Clan that shared an origin with their own. Now they found themselves going forward through the memories of Zeen’s forefathers until the paused briefly on Creb. The one-eyed Mog-Ur seemed to look deeply into Goov’s mind until they all came back to the present. It was morning now.
While the other men were able to return to their hearths and sleep, Goov stirred, restlessly! He glanced out the cave at the women sprawled naked where they’d passed out during their Women’s ceremony. Goov couldn’t get over what had happened last night! Even Creb had not been so good at taking them back into the memories!
Goov watched each of the women wake up, gather their wrap or dress and return to their hearths to sleep the rest of the morning. As usual, Luna was one of the last to awaken. When at last she stood up, grabbed her dress and walked back to her hearth, Goov went to meet her.
“Is something wrong?” asked Luna, when she saw The Mog-Ur approach.
He never needed to speak with her after a night of ceremonies. Her ‘sight’ and his posture told her he had something important to say.
“The Mog-Ur would speak with his Leader,” signed Goov, formally.
Luna laid her dress on the floor of the cave and sat on it, naked, patting the ground to indicate that The Mog-Ur should join her.
“What’s on your mind?” asked Luna.
“This is not a easy thing to discuss with a woman,” signed Goov. “What goes on at the Men’s Ceremonies, is not for the eyes of women, even if you are the Great Mother as Clanluna believes. However, during the Ceremony Zeen showed this mog-ur that he is more skilled than me . . . more skilled than Creb! It’s time for me to retire . . . Zeen should be our mog-ur . . . Zeen should be The Mog-Ur of all Clans, everywhere!”
It was only a few days away, so they waited until it was Creb’s time. Luna, Goov and Zeen went into the burial chamber alone. When they came out, Zeen was wearing Goov’s bear skin cloak, for Zeen was now, their Clan’s mog-ur!
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(That owl is getting old!) thought Luna.
“Mother could you help me?” asked Zeen. “Now that this Weez-Ur is mog-ur, he would like to make his Ursus Cloak, more like your Eagle Hat. I used transfiguration to repair the damage from years of use by my predecessors, Creb and Goov, but I’ll need some help with the Charms to animate the head.”
Luna turned her attention away from Ansalong, and her latest mouse capture, to smile enigmatically at her son. Although she and Ayla were teaching 4th year Hogwarts material to Zeen and Iza, What he was asking was N.E.W.T. level charms. When they were done, the finished product was impressive!
“This Leader thinks you should hide this until next time you perform a ceremony as mog-ur,” suggested Luna.
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Like his father before him, Zeen stayed away from the women and didn’t Relieve his Needs with them. When it came time for the Mother Festival, there was a bit of a scrum to see who would get to dance with him first, which Ruža won. She didn’t even wait for the mushrooms to take effect, but instead, drug him back to a guest hearth to have her way with him. Iga was a bit shocked that she would want to do that with her former son-in-hearth, but let it pass, so as not to disrupt the Festival.
The couple was late to go back to their hearths the next morning, and when they finally did, Ruža was glowing with happiness! As soon as she got back to her mate, she hugged herself before giving Broov the Signal.
Zar turned away from staring into Broov’s hearth to speak to his Mate.
“Ruža seems very happy this morning,” signed Zar. “Zeen must have treated her right, last night.”
“Of course, aren’t you supposed to treat your partner well at a Mother Festival?” replied Ayla. “From the sounds Luna was making, this woman is pretty sure you were treating her right, just as this woman gave her best to Ranec.”
“You did sound like he was Relieving your Needs, as well,” mused Zar.
“Yes, he is quite good at Pleasures, though no man has ever Relieved my Need as well as you can,” agreed Ayla, as her face flushed beet red.
“Yes, Iga has told this man that he is the best one at Relieving women’s Needs in this Clan,” replied Zar. “And she should know. Though, she did tell me that Zeen proved to be quite talented last summer.”
“Yes, did you know that she felt her totem get defeated by Zeen the first day of his training?” pointed out Ayla.
“She told, me,” signed Zar. “Luna thinks it will be a boy.”
“She’s probably right,” agreed Ayla. “Luna’s much better at Divination than this Weech!”
“This man has been thinking . . .” signed Zar. “ . . .This man is getting too old for 1st Rites . . . since he’s so skilled, perhaps Zeen should start performing them. . .”
“This woman thinks Ruža might agree with you,” snickered Ayla, as Ruža’s moans echoed through the cave.
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Luna turned out to be right. Iga delivered a boy with her red hair and Zeen’s gray eyes. She named him: Ood.
Luna had a girl with her dirty-blonde hair and emerald-green eyes that she named: Thonda.
Ayla had a red-haired, green eyed baby girl that look a lot like Iga.
“Looks like animals were not the only things you caught all those time you ‘went hunting’ with Sungaea men last summer,” joked Zar. “Let’s name her: Zara!”
Ova had another mixed daughter, she named: Ova.
Ona had a mixed son that was obviously of Ranec’s spirit, that she named: Grod.
Uma had a Clan son that was named: Boom.
Đukić had a mixed daughter that was named Đorča.
And the last birth of the winter was to Bona, a Clan son named: Borv
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When Luna, saw the woman swim over to where she was floating in the sea, after speaking with Iga. Luna lifted her head and turned to Hvarda, who was clanluna of the Everarđ Clan.
“You don’t have to ask Iga’s permission every time you want to talk to me” waved Luna. “Now what’s wrong?”
Hvarda flushed with embarrassment. She always found speaking with her Goddess to be disconcerting.
“We first noticed something was wrong when we returned from the Summer Gathering last year,” began Hvarda. “As you know, we hadn’t formally hived off of the Đumbleđore Član until the end of the Summer Gathering. When we arrived, we discovered that Đumbleđore Član’š cave had been ransacked. It’s fortunate that we’d returned with so many supplies.
Our Član moved to a cave we knew of, that was North of Đumbleđore Član’š. Our cave was a little closer to the local Član’š cave. As you know, we’d been adopting the mixed babies that the Član leaves exposed. When we sent Pecotić to scout for one, he didn’t return. We thought the Član was holding him hostage. So we sent a group to negotiate for his release. That’s when we discovered that the local Član was missing. Every man, woman and child was gone. And their possessions were ransacked, as ours had been.
Since then, more of our people have disappeared, nine in all. The only common circumstance is that each left our cave alone and never returned!”
“Bring all your possessions to the Summer Gathering,” commanded Luna. “This Weech will look into it, and the Council will discuss it.
Krstu?”
“Yes Luna?” called the clanluna of the Đumbleđore Clan, in a reverent tone that suggested she really meant: “Yes Goddess”
“Your Clan should do the same,” suggested Luna.
After the two Clans had gathered the possessions, Luna shrank them and portkeyed the Summer Festival, which her Abraxas Clan was hosting.
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The Clanluna Summer Gathering was the usual mix of hunting, gathering, competitions, and socializing. Zeen continued to give people Cave bear rides and when they found berries, Luna and Ayla made popsicles.
It was early in the Summer Gathering, when Zeen was called on to give 1st Rites to Đišič, an Everarđ girl. Luna gave a knowing smile when she saw the brunet, hazel-eyed girl being escorted into the teepee by the clanlunae. She’d seen Zeen with this girl before, in a vision.
Ura had become a red-foot this summer for Corg, Ika’s son. Durc was extremely jealous of her time spend teaching the Clan boy to Relieve women’s Needs. But he showed no outward sign as he knew her summer as a red-foot was part of her training as a clanluna. He wanted his Clan to have one, but since Goov had agreed to be his mog-ur, he was prepared to do without a clanluna it Ura wasn’t ready at the end of the summer.
Many of the Everarđ Clan had lost their mates over the winter and had waited for the Summer Festival to ‘officially’ become mated, so that their Goddess could be there.
Even before the Everarđ Clan members came out of their isolation, Luna had been convening the Leadership Council to discuss the situation back in the Đumbleđore and Everarđ lands. Since the Council was already meeting, this gave people a chance to use the council to settle other disputes. With this many people in one place, such disputes naturally occurred.
Luna spotted Groob dragging a pair of young women to where the Council was meeting by their arms that were both bruised. They were both trying to resist the Clan man but were no match for his powerful muscles. When he reached where the council was sitting in a circle, Groob released the two young women. They were both Brunets with Hazel eyes. One of them was the girl Zeen had performed 1st Rites for.
“These two were caught fighting,” signed Groob.
“What was this fight about?” inquired Luna.
“I overheard Jukičva telling another woman that she was going to ask Zeen to be her Mate and I told her she couldn’t have him, as I was already planning to ask for him!” rambled Đišič, of the Everarđ Clan, while the Đumbleđore woman, flushed with embarrassment at her actions.
“HELP!” signed Zeen, as his gray eyes pleaded with his mother’s.
“Fighting is not an acceptable activity for girl and certainly isn’t for young women!” waved Luna.
“Might this Clanluna suggest that we tie their arms together for the rest of the Summer Gathering,” offered Iga. “That’s how we handled these sorts of problem in the Sungaea.”
“Good idea!” signed Luna. “Groob?”
The toolmaker of Luna’s Abraxas Clan, tied left arm of the Đumbleđore woman to the right arm of the Everarđ woman.
“Now has anyone any ideas on how to deal with the disappearances amongst the Everarđ Clan?” asked Luna as everyone shook their heads.
The Đanađananđa extermination of the Harvatišaranaa had been an unplanned event. They didn’t have any professional warriors. They had simply turned the techniques they used for hunting to hunting people.
And Luna hadn’t brought any tactical knowledge with her from the future. She simply wasn’t very tactical minded. She didn’t like competitive games. That’s why she was never any good at chess.
“Ayla, Zeen, Aslan, Bangar, please stay,” commanded Luna as the Council Meeting Broke up. “Iga, could you go find Iza?”
“Yes, Luna,” signed Iga, before going to look for Iza.
“So what’s up?” asked Aslancles, in English.
“This Weech thought we might try divination as a way of looking into the Everarđ problem,” replied Luna, before pulling her crystal ball out of her pocket and enlarging it. “Since Zeen and Iza are studying their second year of Divination, this Weech thought it might be a good opportunity for them to practice.”
After Luna set the crystal ball in the center of the circle and most of them began staring into it, Aslancles extended a claw and began poking marks in the ground, starting the process of casting a geomancy chart. Once he had 16 sets of marks he added each set up to get odd or even numbers so he could make geomantic figures. The then, began combining the figures until his had computed 12 of them. He then scratched a square of house and put the figures in them. After converting the 1st figure into an astrological sign and progressively laying out the other signs from there, the sphinx then, converted each sign to it’s corresponding planet. Finally he drew aspects between the planets, before interpreting the chart.
When Iza arrived, she quietly joined the others in the circle and began scrying into the crystal ball.
“So, why are women attacking the Everarđ Clan?” asked Aslancles.
“I got an impression of wolves and women at the same time,” said Ayla, in English. “Do you think they could be werewolves?”
“And how come they get to eat people but I can’t?” asked Aslancles.
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After a couple of hours of Divination, Luna wanted to unwind before starting dinner for her family. Spotting Vođanović, a good looking man from Đumbleđore Clan, Luna sauntered over to him.
“Would you like to go hunting?” asked Luna.
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The two girls had kept to themselves for several days. Being tied together, they were constantly in each other’s company. And when seen, were always in deep, but increasingly friendly, conversation.
Zeen had his wand out, trying to use transfiguration to turn raw flint into finely knapped tools. He was so intent of his task, he didn’t see them come up until they spoke, in unison.
“Would you like to go hunting?” asked Jukičva and Dišič, in unison.
Zeen shattered the stone he had been working on!
“Uh- . . . with both of you?” stammered Zeen. “How are you going to wield a spear like that?”
“No! No! We don’t want to go hunting with you,” giggled Jukičva. “We want to go ‘hunting’ with you!”
“Oh,” said Zeen, not understanding. Then his eyes widened suddenly. “Ooooooh!
With both of you are once?”
Blushing, the women both nodded at him.
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