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Clanluna
Chapter 70: a new Cave
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Mariza was begining to see that she was pushing too far. A comprimise needed to be reached. . .
“What if we were to make new caves for the animals?“ signed Mariza.
“How can you make new caves?“ asked Zezbrakran. “Is your Great Mother Luna so powerful she can just make caves appear out of the ground? Is YOUR magic so powerful you can make caves appear?“
Mariza's imagination was now running wild. She had been about about to propose the building of a couple of Đűmbleđore stone houses: one for the Cave bear and another for the wolves. But she really need to take care of the wolves at her hearth. . . .
“One of the Clans of this woman's people had a cave that was too small,“ signed Mariza. “But they had many stones. So they built new caves by piling up stones. This woman has seen them and thinks we could make one. This clanluna needs all the men to help her tommorrow to help her move the stones. We will make a new cave out of piled stones for this clanluna's hearth and her animals. This Weech is good with animal magic, so it would be good to separate her from the rest of the Clan.“
“That would be acceptable,“ signed Zezbrakran.
“But for tonight, Đak and the wolves need to stay at this Weech's hearth so she can watch over them,“ signed Mariza. “And everyone in the Clan, even the children, need to meet Đak and the wolf so that they will think the Clan is their pack.“
“Wolves are dangerous! “ signed Zezbrakran.
“Only to those who are not part of their pack!“ signed Mariza. “Are you saying you are afraid to meet the animals.“
“This Leader is afraid of no animal!“ signed Zezbrakran.
“Then come over here and let Đak sniff your hand,“ signed Mariza. “This is how wolves and blink-dogs greet people.“
There was quite a bit of tension as the whole Clan came forward, one at a time to let, first Đak, and then the wolf sniff their hand. The Wolf seemed to have decided that Mariza was the Leader of the Pack.
Once the Clan had met the canines, Mariza and the girls started preparing dinner. The men had successful hunts that day and the women had gathered some plants before they had found the wolf. There was enough plants to satisfy Međveđj and to season the meat. But Mariza recognized that they needed more spring greens in their diet. While dinner was cooking, Mariza started work on the hides today's kills. She showed the girls how to help and and they were able to finish the work after dinner. While they were working, Mariza could see the expectation on the eyes of the young men. So she motioned fo the girls to continue, washed her hands and crawled over to Zuradaz's furs.
“This redfoot promised that you would be first, tonight,“ began Mariza. “Now you saw me do this last night to the others. We start out with a kiss . . . a pressing of our lips together . . .No. You need to do what I do, back to me. . . kissing is important for giving women Needs. In order to Share Pleasures, the woman has to have Needs to be Relieved. You have to give her those Needs and kissing starts them building up. Now let's try again, only kiss this redfoot back, the way this redfoot kisses you.“
Mariza took things a little slower this time with each of the young men, but they still got so excited that they were finished in a short time.
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The next morning, after breakfast, Mariza reminded Zezbrakran of his promise. So instead of the men hurting, Mariza directed them in piling up stones in a circluar mortarless wall. But Mariza had underestimated the dificulty of the undertaking she had imposed on Zorg's Clan. During the Winter she had spent with the Đűmberđore Clan, she hadn't actually seen one of these stone houses being built. She'd only seen the finished product, Đučaviča's stone house that she'd lived in. It looked deceptively simple to build. But now the Clan found that the more they built, the further away they had to travel to find stones, as they used the nearby ones. Also, turning piles of stones into vertical walls had been a challenge. As a result, after a day's labor, the wall was only two feet high. The wolf's reaction to fire last night had not helped any either. And Zezbrakran's was adamant that the animals couldn't spend another night with the Clan. In the chilly nights of Ice age Italy, they need some way to keep warm. . . . Then Mariza remembered how the Haratmutoi had warmed the crowd by building many fires around the circle.
And so Mariza, directed the people of her hearth to build a series of small fires against the walls, outside of them. The resultant circle of fires was warmer than they otherwise would have been. But Mariza no longer had enough sleeping furs. She'd given one to Vojkovica to replace the ruined tunic and cut another up into a wrap for herself to wear. Also after working so hard, Mariza was too tired to teach Pleasures to the young men. They ALL were tired! So after dinner, Mariza directed them all to go to sleep. Mariza only lay there shivering for a few moments before Zurvgak reached out and pulled her and her daughter under his furs. It was much warmer with her back pressed to his chest with his arms around her. But then he proved to not be as exhausted as she thought. His hands began wandering over her body and he began showing her that he was learning from her lessons. But although he was touching her in some of the right places, he wasn't doing it in the right way. As she felt his organ hardening against her back, Mariza realized she would have to Relieve his Need is she wanted to get any sleep. So when her tried to reach around an Pleasure her, Mariza lifted her leg and let him get his fingers between them. He wasn't doing it right . . . but Mariza rocked back against him like she was enjoying his touch. When Mariza felt him ready, she moved up and guided him into her so he could Relieve his Need. He was able to do so surprisingly fast. And once he was finished. Mariza just lay there conjoined. She was asleep for Zurvgak was.
Mariza awoke still in Zurvgak's arms. She let Širiža nurse before getting up to use the trench. The girls were awakened by Mariza's return and after they had made their own trips to the trench, the three of them prepared breakfast. As each of the young men awoke, Mariza get them a kiss. She knew that whoever they mated would appreciate being treated this way. So she was trying to teach them.
Once the whole Clan was awakened, Mariza coaxed them into returning to work on her house. Yesterday had used up all the nearby stones. So it took longer to find each stone. On the other hand, they were better at placing them today. Still, they had only managed to double the size of the now, four foot tall wall by the end of the day. Mariza tried making fires outside, but it didn't help as must as last night. So she had to, over the wolf's protests, build a fire inside the stone circle.
After a day of moving rocks, Mariza was again too tired to teach the young men, and so, after dinner, she stood before them.
“This woman is too tired to teach you about Sharing Pleasures,“ signed Mariza, before giving each of them the Signal, in turn.
She then got in position so they could Relieve their Needs, Clan style.
“You can not give us the Signal, you are a woman!“ protested Zubgranev as Zuradaz knelt behind her and kissed the back of her neck while untying her wrap. After all three young men had Relieved their Needs, with the girls staring the whole time, Mariza crawled with her daughter to snuggle between Zurvgak and Zubgranev for the night.
The next day Mariza tried getting the Clan to build a roof of gradually tapering in walls. But it kept falling in. It took the rest of the day before Mariza had figured out how to make it work. And even after she'd gotten it to work, there were still several cave-ins over the next two days. Finally, it was complete! The walls were about 4 feet high before the walls started tapering inward to form a roof with a smoke hole in the apex. A gap was left in the wall, forming a doorway. The project took longer than expected and the Clan ended up spending six days building, rather than the one Mariza had expected. But Mariza had moved the hearth in the stone circle on the first night. On the 6th night, their first in a complete building, Mariza, after she had 'taught' the young men to sleep, lay on her back gazing up at the smoke hole. Their next home was alot less smoky than the cave. Maybe she could add some runestones to the smoke hole to draw the smoke out. But how would she charge them without a wand? The easiest way, would be by rechanelling Pleasures. . . But she'd have to figure out a way to get herself to peak for that. She was unlikely to reach that state with the young men she was teaching. Not only were they extremely bad at Pleasures, they were also men . . . and she didn't think this Clan, whom she had brought so many changes to thus far, were prepared for the idea that women could Share Pleasures with each other . . . even if any of the women were interesed in her. Mariza didn't even consider mastrubation. Iga had brought the Sungaea taboo against it into her Cult of Luna. Amoungst both peoples, mastrubation was considered selfish. . . Mariza was suposed to Share Pleasures with someone . . . anyone . . . rather than Pleasure herself. So since sexual energy couldn't be used to charge the rune stones, she'd had to use death. . . blood sacrifice. She need to somehow capture some small animals alive so she could use their deaths to charge the stones . . . she'd have to start working on a bow. . .
The next morning Mariza recieved her first owl of spring from her mother! She still didn't have ink or parchment. But this time she used a piece of charcoal to write a more detailed letter to her mother explaining what had happened on the back of the parchment from her mother.
I changed my mind and decided to re-write this chapter. Re-read the previous post for changes.
Now that she'd fed the people of her hearth and replied to her mother's letter, Mariza and the girls gathered their baskets and digging sticks to go foraging. At the cave Mariza went by the Hearths of Zuragavab and Zezbrakruk and invited the medicine woman and her daughter to go with them. Mariza noticed a man watched her as she walked through the cave. Like all the members of Zorg's Clan, he had blonde hair and sea-blue eyes like Mariza's mother, except a slightly different. All of them apeared to be people of the Others, but their wraps, tools and signs were pure Clan. He was sitting at Zuradanak's hearth, just finishing a meal. He had proved paricularly helpfull in building the stone house over the past through days. What was his name? . . . Zuradan? . . . Mariza couldn't figure out why he was staring . . . Didi he blame her because the stone roof nearly fell on him during one of the many collapses involved in construction? Was he resentful of her sudden insertion of the clanluna concept into his Clan's culture? The issue about whether or not she could hunt still hadn't been settled. The men didn't think she could actually kill something and she hadn't had time, or made it a priority to prove them wrong.
After leaving the cave, Mariza, Vojkovica, Vezava, Zurbgrana, and her adult daughter, Zurbgranaza, with their daughters Širiža and Zurbgranazaga under their wraps so their hands would be free, began searching the edge, where the forest met the grasses of the parktundra.
“Oh, Look! Here it is!“ signed Mariza. “This is the herb this woman told you about, the one that help you replenish blood. If you had given this woman this last winter, this woman would have recovered much faster.“
“That is very interesting!“ signed Zurbgranaza, as her mother snorted in derision.
“This medicine woman does not think you know as much as you think you do,“ signed Zurbgrana. “Like, for instance, that new cave of yours. You nearly got several of men killed with the frequent collapses when you were building it. We don't need you are your Luna to teach us. This Clan already has a medicine woman! And Zurbgranaza will be medicine woman after me.“
“Oh! And this herb here is used in skele-grow potion!“ signed Mariza. “If this Weech could find the other ingredients, we could heal the wolf's broken leg in one night!“
“You can't heal a broken bone in one night!“ signed Zurbgrana. “You don't know what you are talking about!¨“
“What is a poshun?“ signed Zurbgranaza.
“Potions are mixtures of plants,animal and mineral materials cooked together in a special way,“ signed Mariza “If you wanted to help, you could aid me in gathering the ingredients and preparing them. But if you tried to mix them, the potion wouldn't turn out right. You have to be a Weech, like me, a make potions. It's part of the magic of them.“
“So you want to share some of your medicine woman knowledge with us, but not all of it?“ Signed Zurgrana.
“No. It is no like that!“ signed Mariza. “You are perfectly welcome to watch this Weech make the potion, and this Weech will even explain to you how it is made. But because you have no magic, you will be unable to complete the potion yourself.“
“This woman would like to try for herself,“ signed Zurbgranaza.
“Then this Weech will show you how it is done,“ signed Mariza.
They continued gathering until their baskets were full before returning to the cave. The Wolf and her cubs still hadn't left the stone house, but Đak was full of energy. Mariza picked up a stick and threw it. The blink-dog chased after it, leaped into the air and caught it before it hit the ground, then brought it back to her.
“Me do! Me do!“ said Zariz, in English, as Mariza handed her son the stick.
Vezava gigled at the boy's antics as he played with the dog. She got up from the hide she and Voljkovica had been working on.
“Can I try it?“ asked Vezava, in her own language.
But Mariza had understood her meaning well enough.
“Yes. I try!“ said Mariza before signing to her son: “Let her have the stick.“
Vezava threw the stick a few times and the blink-dog brought it back to her hand before two of the other girls walked up to her.
“Could this girl throw the stick for the little wolf?“ asked Zuragakabaza.
“Would you like to try it?“ asked Vezava, as she handed her the stick.
Mariza watched the two girls play with he blink-dog. Zuragakabaza was one of two girls that look about Vezava's age. The other one, Zuragakadava had joinned them now. All three of them were not yet women, but looked old enough that they might soon be. If she counted Zuradan, There were four men who didn't have mates. Currently, Mariza and Voljkovica were the only two unmated women. But by this time next year, there would be five unmated women. Of course one could say that as the Clan's clanluna, Mariza was already mated to the whole Clan. Mariza would have to ask Zuradan about his status. Perhaps there should be four men training at her hearth?
Mariza's thoughts were interupted when Zurbgranaza's mate, Zuragavab ran back to the Cave.
“We just killed a horse,“ signed Zuragavab. “This man needs a group of women to go with him to the site.“
Mariza, Zurbgrana, Zurbgranaza, Zuragakadaza and Zuragakaba all grabbed knives and baskets and started following the hunter.
“Girls, stop playing with Đak and come help us,“ signed Mariza.
The girls looked disapointed as they went back into the cave to grab their baskets.
“Voljkovica, I think they want us to go with him,“ said Vezava, in her own language, as she pointed as the retreating women following the man.
“Then we'd better go help them,“ replied Vojkovica.
When Zuragavab led the women out of the forrest and onto the parktundra they found the men guarding the carcass from a pack of hyenas and the clump where the pack was thickest, was between them and the Hyena. After appraising the situation, Zuragavab raised his spear over his head and shook it as he ran at the hyenas shouting. Mariza followed close behind, waving and shouting, while Đak ran alongside barking and aparating. After a moment's hesitation, Volkovica and Vezava followed suit and also ran at the hyenas, screaming and waving. The Hyenas scattered and ran around to the oposite side of the dead horse, go the long way around to keep clear of the spears of the men. As soon as she got to the men, the Leader, Zezbrakran slapped Mariza so hard she fell to the ground!
“That was very foolish woman!“ signed Zezbrakran. “Next time let a hunter scare the preditors away! You could have been killed! What were you thinking?“
“Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!“ Đak imediatly sparted growling and Zezbrakran raised his spear and the blink-dog.
“ĐAK!“ Mariza made the sign that comanded Đak to roll over. Đak obediently rolled onto his back and wagged his tail, looking up at Mariza as she rose to her feet.
“First of all this woman is a woman-who-hunts!“ signed Mariza. “And this clanluna has told you before that it is no longer acceptable to hit women. As punishment, you will no longer have Needs to be Relieved for the next month.“
“This man will show you who's Need will be Relieved!“ signed Zezbrakran angrily, before giving Mariza the Signal.
Mariza just stared at him coldly for a moment until he raised his hand to hit her again.
“This clanluna will comply and Relieve your Needs,“ signed Mariza as she knelt before him. “But you will not have Needs again until this Weech decides to return them.“
Mariza then bent over and presented like a Clan woman would. She was very angry with the Leader and didn't what to do this. But she had already appointed herself the clanluna of Zorg's Clan. It was to duty to see that every wo/man had someone to Share Pleasures with. If she couldn't arrange for it to happen, she had to do it herself. But the Leader didn't know about Pleasures yet. At best, Mariza could Relieve his Needs. She knew, as a woman, she didn't have to do this. But she felt that if she wanted to remain the clanluna of these people, then she did have to. She believed it was Luna's will that she remain the clanluna of these people. And at this moment, in order to be the clanluna, she had to Relieve this man's Needs. . . . but he was not gentle with her. . . .it hurt almost as much and the Vanthonoi man had when he forced her! . . . . when Zezbrakran was finished, Mariza got up and looked him in the eye.
“This clanluna hopes that you enjoyed that . . . . because it will be a long time before you do that again . . . with anyone. . . .“
Mariza walked over to where the women were already at work on skinning and butchering the horse. Zezbrakran just shook his head. He didn't believe she had that kind of power of him.
“Who made the kill?“ asked Mariza.
“This man did!“ boasted Zubgranev.
“May this woman request that you take the stomach as part of your share?“ signed Mariza. “This Weech needs it.“
Zubgranev nodded his agreement.
After the horse was skinned and cut into small enough pieces, the women carried it back to the cave.
Outside the cave, the other women pulled out the racks to dry the meat, while Zezbrakruk when to go get a coal to start a fire. Mariza wadded up some tinder and pulled out her firestone.
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Mariza hit the firestone against her flint knife and a spark appeared and hit the tinder.
Mariza blew on the spark and it burst into flames just as Zezbrakruk arrive with holding a stone plate with a glowing coal on it.
“Where did this fire come from?“ signed Zezbrakruk.
“She made it with magic!“ signed Zuragakabaza. “This girl saw! She made fire from a stone!“
Mariza refrained from speaking. She didn't want to deceive these people. But she needed them to be a little in awe of her until her reforms had been adopted. Besides, until she could find another firestone, only one person at a time could make fire this way. She joined the rest of the women in hanging the meat to dry by the fire that Zezbrakruk built up bigger. Once this was done, She headed back to her stone-home with the horse stomach.
After cleaning out the stomach, Mariza put it on top of a tripod with each pole holding part of the open edge. Filling it with water, Mariza began heating stones in the fire to drop into the water in the stomach. Horse Stomachs did not a make as good a cauldron as a bison's one would. But it would be good enough for this potion. She had planned to brew some skelegrow for the wolf's fractured leg. She'd found enough ingredients. But after her earlier confrontation with the Leader, Zezbrakran had become a bigger priority. Many of the same ingredients in skelegrow, counld also be used for an impotentcy potion. Mariza decided to brew the permanent version . . . even though she was not certain she would be able to find the ingredients for an antidote . . . if she ever decided to give him his Needs back. She made a note to herself not to let any of the women cook food or them in the same stomach when she was done. It only took an hour and she was done. . . . she then added some vegatables and fresh horse meat to make a tasty stew for the Leader's hearth. Once she was done, she put it in a bowl and carried it over to the Leader's hearth.
“This Weech made this special stew for Zezbrakran,“ signed Mariza, as she handed the bowl to the Leader's mate, Zuragavaka.
After leaving the Leader's hearth, on her way back to her stone-home, Mariza took a look at where the sun was setting. She hadn't figured out what day it was yet. Back at the Abraxas Clan's cave, and also at the Đumbleđore Clan's, there was a series of markers that allowed one to calculate the exact day on the old chalander that Luna had used in her own time. It was still taught in astronomy class. But Mariza had lost track of time. Even though the stars told her what month it was. She'd have to watch until she saw the Summer Solstice happen before she would know the exact day.
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The next morning, Mariza took some of the sinews from the horse and hide and began working on a summer dress for Vojkovica, who was still wearing winter leggings and a wrapped cloak. The young woman was interested once she realized that Mariza was making some sort of garment. But when Mariza began threading her needle, Voljkovica's interest became more intense.
“Where did you get that needle with a hole in it?“ asked Voljkovica, in Vanthoni. (her native language)
“Weech make . . . magic make. . .“ replied Mariza as she mimed waving a non-existant wand. She then looked at her needle. Without her wand, she wouldn't be transfiguring any more needles out of splinters. She'd better figure out how to make one.
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It was a couple of days before Mariza had aquired to ingredients and made a potion the heal the wolf. The next morning. The wolf made her first tentative steps out of the stone-house. As soon as she was outside the entrance hole of the stone-house, Zuragavab spotted her.
“WOLF!“ shouted Zuragavab, as he ran for his spear. “Woooooollfff!!!“
As Spring turned into summer, their household became more established. The men hunted on the parktundra and made tools, the women gathered plants and processed hides. Mariza made Vojkovica a clanluna-style summer-dress, which the young woman wore as a tunic with her leggings. The wolf recoved enough to walk out of the house, which caused some consternation amongst the Clan. But they soon got used to the wolf and even called her by the name, Mariza had given her: Wolfie. But when she finished her bow, made some blunt headed arrows and tried walking out of the house with them, Zurvragun, the mog-ur's accolyte, spotted her.
“Clanluna! What do you have there?“ signed Zurvragun.
“This woman had made a bow and some baby spears,“ signed Mariza.
“Women are not allowed to touch weapons!“ waved Zurvragun. “Not even baby weapons!“
“They are amongst this woman's people,“ waved Mariza. “In fact, this is a hunting weapon that ONLY women use.“
The son of the mog-ur's mate took one of the arrows and examined the fletchings and the blunt end.
“You will not be able to kill anything with this,“ observed Zurvragun.
“This woman does not want to kill the animals,“ signed Mariza. “This woman wants to capture them alive.“
“More of your animal magic?“ asked Zurvragun?
“No, this Weech is using the animals for stone magic,“ signed Mariza.
Zurvragun made a dismissing sign at her, and Mariza retreated.
She was able to stun a few squirels with the arrows and brought them back to the house. Mariza was carefull that no one was watching as she cut the throat of the rodents, each over a different stone and chanelled the necromantic magic into charging the rune stones that she then places around the smoke hole to pull the smoke out of the house. Later rune stones warded the fire area so it couldn't ignite things outside the firecircle.
Summer grew hotter and Mariza was starting to teach the wolf and the cubs to help her hunt. But at this point, Đak and the cubs were too excitable and just scared off game.
Mariza and the young men were making progress at learning the Vanthonoi language from the girls. It had become so warm that Vojkovica had shed her leggings and now wore the summer-dress without them. And Vezava had taken to wearing Clan-syle wraps instead of her spring leggings and tunic, which was becoming too small. Mariza offered to make her a summer-dress, but the girl refused. Which was just as well, as Mariza's priority was to make them all Winter clothing for next Winter.
The young men of her hearth were learning to be better at Pleasures. And this was becoming a problem for her. She had an itch she couldn't scratch. When the young men did things to her that only men could do, it did feel good. She liked the closeness of joining with another person, even if he was a man. But was like scratching her foot when her hand itched. When they did things to her that a woman could do, she could close her eyes and imagine Đučaviča. But is someways this was worse! They could almost bring her to her peak, but not quite. If was like scratching right next to, but not on, the place that itched. And her upbringing combined with her recent religious fervor, meant she couldn't scratch that itch herself! Still, she was trying to teach these young men how to Share Pleasures. And so, in order to encourage them to do it right, she would emit fake moans at times that she thought most women usually would. It occured to her that she was faking it, just like Mara. Did Mara 'fake it' because, like Mariza, she thought she was serving Luna? Did Mara secretly prefer Pleasures with Women like Mariza did? It gave Mariza something to think about, as her frustration built.
So, when the shrinking charm on her broom finally wore off, Mariza was ecstatic! She threw off her wrap, skipped outside the house, straddled the broom and kicked off. Mariza thrilled at the feeling the wind caressing her body as she swooped and dove over the land! Looking down, she could see the member of Zorg's Clan looking up at her and pointing, before they decided she was a spirit and started ignoring her. After that, the Clan started treating her with more respect.
One summer day, when Mariza had gone off alone to forage for potion ingredients. Mariza heard the unmistakable sounds of a couple Share Pleasures. Mariza crept through the bushes until she saw them: Vojkovica was kneeling like a Clan women did when she Relieved a man's Needs, except her hands were held behind her back with her face on the ground. The back of her summer-dress was pulled up and Zuradaz was behind her thrushing into her as he tightly held her hands behind her back.
HOW DARE HE! Mariza had been thinking that the three young men of her hearth were almost ready to be mates with a woman and Share Pleasures with their mates. And She was going to ask one of them to perform Vojkovica's 1st Rites. But now, after all that work teaching them. . . letting them Relieve their Needs in her . . . sacrificing her body in her devotion to Luna for the good of the women of this Clan . . . . He was forcing her just like she had been forced! A murderous rage boiled through Mariza as she stomped forward to knock him off of her. She wondered would she be able to kill him? Or would he overpower her . . . perhaps even force her too? Mariza didn't care! She'd kill him or die trying!
Vojkovica (14) – Other, of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan
Vezava (13) – Other, of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan
Mariza (19) - Other, (Golden blonde hair, sky-blue eyes) Ayla’s daughter, Weech, , Đučaviča’s former 2nd mate. clanluna, redfoot, N: Cr,H,R,Div, Care prodigy (Stork totem)
---Zariz (4) – ¼ Clan son of Mariza, Weez-ur
---Širiža (0) – Other, Mariza’s daughter, Weech
------Đak (5) – blink-dog
------Međveđj (3) Cave Bear
Zurvgak (14) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava, future mog-ur's acolyte
Zubgranev (14) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurbgrana
Zuradaz – (14) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza
Zezbrakran (40) – 1/16 Clan son of Zezbraka, Leader
---Zuragavaka (33) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragava, mate of Zezbrakran
Zurbgun (53)-1/8 Clan son of Zurbga, mog-ur
Zurvragun (38) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvraga, mog-ur's acolyte
---Zurvgakava (29) - 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zurvragun
------Zurvgakun (11) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava,
Zezbrakruk (37) -1/8 Clan son of Zezbraka
---Zurbgrana (37) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zurbgra, medicine woman, mate of Zezbrakruk
Zuradanak (35) -1/32 Clan son of Zuradana
---Zurvgakaza (32) – 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zuradanak
------Zuradan (17) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza
Zuradavun (35) – 1/32 Clan son of Zuradava
--- Zuragakada (31) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zuradavun
------ Zuragakadava (13) - 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zuragavab
Zurvgav (34) – 1/8 Clan son of Zurvgava
--- Zuragakaba (28) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zurvgav
------ Zuragakabaza (13) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba
------ Zuragakabava (10) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba
Zuragavaz (18) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragavaka, future Leader
---Zuragakadaza (16)– 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zuragavaz
------ Zuragakadazad (1) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragakadaza, future leader
Zuragavab (15) – 1/32 Clan son of Zuragavaka
---Zurbgranaza (17) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgrana, medicine woman, mate of Zuragavab
------ Zurbgranazaga (2) 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgranaza
Chapter 70: a new Cave
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Mariza was begining to see that she was pushing too far. A comprimise needed to be reached. . .
“What if we were to make new caves for the animals?“ signed Mariza.
“How can you make new caves?“ asked Zezbrakran. “Is your Great Mother Luna so powerful she can just make caves appear out of the ground? Is YOUR magic so powerful you can make caves appear?“
Mariza's imagination was now running wild. She had been about about to propose the building of a couple of Đűmbleđore stone houses: one for the Cave bear and another for the wolves. But she really need to take care of the wolves at her hearth. . . .
“One of the Clans of this woman's people had a cave that was too small,“ signed Mariza. “But they had many stones. So they built new caves by piling up stones. This woman has seen them and thinks we could make one. This clanluna needs all the men to help her tommorrow to help her move the stones. We will make a new cave out of piled stones for this clanluna's hearth and her animals. This Weech is good with animal magic, so it would be good to separate her from the rest of the Clan.“
“That would be acceptable,“ signed Zezbrakran.
“But for tonight, Đak and the wolves need to stay at this Weech's hearth so she can watch over them,“ signed Mariza. “And everyone in the Clan, even the children, need to meet Đak and the wolf so that they will think the Clan is their pack.“
“Wolves are dangerous! “ signed Zezbrakran.
“Only to those who are not part of their pack!“ signed Mariza. “Are you saying you are afraid to meet the animals.“
“This Leader is afraid of no animal!“ signed Zezbrakran.
“Then come over here and let Đak sniff your hand,“ signed Mariza. “This is how wolves and blink-dogs greet people.“
There was quite a bit of tension as the whole Clan came forward, one at a time to let, first Đak, and then the wolf sniff their hand. The Wolf seemed to have decided that Mariza was the Leader of the Pack.
Once the Clan had met the canines, Mariza and the girls started preparing dinner. The men had successful hunts that day and the women had gathered some plants before they had found the wolf. There was enough plants to satisfy Međveđj and to season the meat. But Mariza recognized that they needed more spring greens in their diet. While dinner was cooking, Mariza started work on the hides today's kills. She showed the girls how to help and and they were able to finish the work after dinner. While they were working, Mariza could see the expectation on the eyes of the young men. So she motioned fo the girls to continue, washed her hands and crawled over to Zuradaz's furs.
“This redfoot promised that you would be first, tonight,“ began Mariza. “Now you saw me do this last night to the others. We start out with a kiss . . . a pressing of our lips together . . .No. You need to do what I do, back to me. . . kissing is important for giving women Needs. In order to Share Pleasures, the woman has to have Needs to be Relieved. You have to give her those Needs and kissing starts them building up. Now let's try again, only kiss this redfoot back, the way this redfoot kisses you.“
Mariza took things a little slower this time with each of the young men, but they still got so excited that they were finished in a short time.
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The next morning, after breakfast, Mariza reminded Zezbrakran of his promise. So instead of the men hurting, Mariza directed them in piling up stones in a circluar mortarless wall. But Mariza had underestimated the dificulty of the undertaking she had imposed on Zorg's Clan. During the Winter she had spent with the Đűmberđore Clan, she hadn't actually seen one of these stone houses being built. She'd only seen the finished product, Đučaviča's stone house that she'd lived in. It looked deceptively simple to build. But now the Clan found that the more they built, the further away they had to travel to find stones, as they used the nearby ones. Also, turning piles of stones into vertical walls had been a challenge. As a result, after a day's labor, the wall was only two feet high. The wolf's reaction to fire last night had not helped any either. And Zezbrakran's was adamant that the animals couldn't spend another night with the Clan. In the chilly nights of Ice age Italy, they need some way to keep warm. . . . Then Mariza remembered how the Haratmutoi had warmed the crowd by building many fires around the circle.
And so Mariza, directed the people of her hearth to build a series of small fires against the walls, outside of them. The resultant circle of fires was warmer than they otherwise would have been. But Mariza no longer had enough sleeping furs. She'd given one to Vojkovica to replace the ruined tunic and cut another up into a wrap for herself to wear. Also after working so hard, Mariza was too tired to teach Pleasures to the young men. They ALL were tired! So after dinner, Mariza directed them all to go to sleep. Mariza only lay there shivering for a few moments before Zurvgak reached out and pulled her and her daughter under his furs. It was much warmer with her back pressed to his chest with his arms around her. But then he proved to not be as exhausted as she thought. His hands began wandering over her body and he began showing her that he was learning from her lessons. But although he was touching her in some of the right places, he wasn't doing it in the right way. As she felt his organ hardening against her back, Mariza realized she would have to Relieve his Need is she wanted to get any sleep. So when her tried to reach around an Pleasure her, Mariza lifted her leg and let him get his fingers between them. He wasn't doing it right . . . but Mariza rocked back against him like she was enjoying his touch. When Mariza felt him ready, she moved up and guided him into her so he could Relieve his Need. He was able to do so surprisingly fast. And once he was finished. Mariza just lay there conjoined. She was asleep for Zurvgak was.
Mariza awoke still in Zurvgak's arms. She let Širiža nurse before getting up to use the trench. The girls were awakened by Mariza's return and after they had made their own trips to the trench, the three of them prepared breakfast. As each of the young men awoke, Mariza get them a kiss. She knew that whoever they mated would appreciate being treated this way. So she was trying to teach them.
Once the whole Clan was awakened, Mariza coaxed them into returning to work on her house. Yesterday had used up all the nearby stones. So it took longer to find each stone. On the other hand, they were better at placing them today. Still, they had only managed to double the size of the now, four foot tall wall by the end of the day. Mariza tried making fires outside, but it didn't help as must as last night. So she had to, over the wolf's protests, build a fire inside the stone circle.
After a day of moving rocks, Mariza was again too tired to teach the young men, and so, after dinner, she stood before them.
“This woman is too tired to teach you about Sharing Pleasures,“ signed Mariza, before giving each of them the Signal, in turn.
She then got in position so they could Relieve their Needs, Clan style.
“You can not give us the Signal, you are a woman!“ protested Zubgranev as Zuradaz knelt behind her and kissed the back of her neck while untying her wrap. After all three young men had Relieved their Needs, with the girls staring the whole time, Mariza crawled with her daughter to snuggle between Zurvgak and Zubgranev for the night.
The next day Mariza tried getting the Clan to build a roof of gradually tapering in walls. But it kept falling in. It took the rest of the day before Mariza had figured out how to make it work. And even after she'd gotten it to work, there were still several cave-ins over the next two days. Finally, it was complete! The walls were about 4 feet high before the walls started tapering inward to form a roof with a smoke hole in the apex. A gap was left in the wall, forming a doorway. The project took longer than expected and the Clan ended up spending six days building, rather than the one Mariza had expected. But Mariza had moved the hearth in the stone circle on the first night. On the 6th night, their first in a complete building, Mariza, after she had 'taught' the young men to sleep, lay on her back gazing up at the smoke hole. Their next home was alot less smoky than the cave. Maybe she could add some runestones to the smoke hole to draw the smoke out. But how would she charge them without a wand? The easiest way, would be by rechanelling Pleasures. . . But she'd have to figure out a way to get herself to peak for that. She was unlikely to reach that state with the young men she was teaching. Not only were they extremely bad at Pleasures, they were also men . . . and she didn't think this Clan, whom she had brought so many changes to thus far, were prepared for the idea that women could Share Pleasures with each other . . . even if any of the women were interesed in her. Mariza didn't even consider mastrubation. Iga had brought the Sungaea taboo against it into her Cult of Luna. Amoungst both peoples, mastrubation was considered selfish. . . Mariza was suposed to Share Pleasures with someone . . . anyone . . . rather than Pleasure herself. So since sexual energy couldn't be used to charge the rune stones, she'd had to use death. . . blood sacrifice. She need to somehow capture some small animals alive so she could use their deaths to charge the stones . . . she'd have to start working on a bow. . .
The next morning Mariza recieved her first owl of spring from her mother! She still didn't have ink or parchment. But this time she used a piece of charcoal to write a more detailed letter to her mother explaining what had happened on the back of the parchment from her mother.
I changed my mind and decided to re-write this chapter. Re-read the previous post for changes.
Now that she'd fed the people of her hearth and replied to her mother's letter, Mariza and the girls gathered their baskets and digging sticks to go foraging. At the cave Mariza went by the Hearths of Zuragavab and Zezbrakruk and invited the medicine woman and her daughter to go with them. Mariza noticed a man watched her as she walked through the cave. Like all the members of Zorg's Clan, he had blonde hair and sea-blue eyes like Mariza's mother, except a slightly different. All of them apeared to be people of the Others, but their wraps, tools and signs were pure Clan. He was sitting at Zuradanak's hearth, just finishing a meal. He had proved paricularly helpfull in building the stone house over the past through days. What was his name? . . . Zuradan? . . . Mariza couldn't figure out why he was staring . . . Didi he blame her because the stone roof nearly fell on him during one of the many collapses involved in construction? Was he resentful of her sudden insertion of the clanluna concept into his Clan's culture? The issue about whether or not she could hunt still hadn't been settled. The men didn't think she could actually kill something and she hadn't had time, or made it a priority to prove them wrong.
After leaving the cave, Mariza, Vojkovica, Vezava, Zurbgrana, and her adult daughter, Zurbgranaza, with their daughters Širiža and Zurbgranazaga under their wraps so their hands would be free, began searching the edge, where the forest met the grasses of the parktundra.
“Oh, Look! Here it is!“ signed Mariza. “This is the herb this woman told you about, the one that help you replenish blood. If you had given this woman this last winter, this woman would have recovered much faster.“
“That is very interesting!“ signed Zurbgranaza, as her mother snorted in derision.
“This medicine woman does not think you know as much as you think you do,“ signed Zurbgrana. “Like, for instance, that new cave of yours. You nearly got several of men killed with the frequent collapses when you were building it. We don't need you are your Luna to teach us. This Clan already has a medicine woman! And Zurbgranaza will be medicine woman after me.“
“Oh! And this herb here is used in skele-grow potion!“ signed Mariza. “If this Weech could find the other ingredients, we could heal the wolf's broken leg in one night!“
“You can't heal a broken bone in one night!“ signed Zurbgrana. “You don't know what you are talking about!¨“
“What is a poshun?“ signed Zurbgranaza.
“Potions are mixtures of plants,animal and mineral materials cooked together in a special way,“ signed Mariza “If you wanted to help, you could aid me in gathering the ingredients and preparing them. But if you tried to mix them, the potion wouldn't turn out right. You have to be a Weech, like me, a make potions. It's part of the magic of them.“
“So you want to share some of your medicine woman knowledge with us, but not all of it?“ Signed Zurgrana.
“No. It is no like that!“ signed Mariza. “You are perfectly welcome to watch this Weech make the potion, and this Weech will even explain to you how it is made. But because you have no magic, you will be unable to complete the potion yourself.“
“This woman would like to try for herself,“ signed Zurbgranaza.
“Then this Weech will show you how it is done,“ signed Mariza.
They continued gathering until their baskets were full before returning to the cave. The Wolf and her cubs still hadn't left the stone house, but Đak was full of energy. Mariza picked up a stick and threw it. The blink-dog chased after it, leaped into the air and caught it before it hit the ground, then brought it back to her.
“Me do! Me do!“ said Zariz, in English, as Mariza handed her son the stick.
Vezava gigled at the boy's antics as he played with the dog. She got up from the hide she and Voljkovica had been working on.
“Can I try it?“ asked Vezava, in her own language.
But Mariza had understood her meaning well enough.
“Yes. I try!“ said Mariza before signing to her son: “Let her have the stick.“
Vezava threw the stick a few times and the blink-dog brought it back to her hand before two of the other girls walked up to her.
“Could this girl throw the stick for the little wolf?“ asked Zuragakabaza.
“Would you like to try it?“ asked Vezava, as she handed her the stick.
Mariza watched the two girls play with he blink-dog. Zuragakabaza was one of two girls that look about Vezava's age. The other one, Zuragakadava had joinned them now. All three of them were not yet women, but looked old enough that they might soon be. If she counted Zuradan, There were four men who didn't have mates. Currently, Mariza and Voljkovica were the only two unmated women. But by this time next year, there would be five unmated women. Of course one could say that as the Clan's clanluna, Mariza was already mated to the whole Clan. Mariza would have to ask Zuradan about his status. Perhaps there should be four men training at her hearth?
Mariza's thoughts were interupted when Zurbgranaza's mate, Zuragavab ran back to the Cave.
“We just killed a horse,“ signed Zuragavab. “This man needs a group of women to go with him to the site.“
Mariza, Zurbgrana, Zurbgranaza, Zuragakadaza and Zuragakaba all grabbed knives and baskets and started following the hunter.
“Girls, stop playing with Đak and come help us,“ signed Mariza.
The girls looked disapointed as they went back into the cave to grab their baskets.
“Voljkovica, I think they want us to go with him,“ said Vezava, in her own language, as she pointed as the retreating women following the man.
“Then we'd better go help them,“ replied Vojkovica.
When Zuragavab led the women out of the forrest and onto the parktundra they found the men guarding the carcass from a pack of hyenas and the clump where the pack was thickest, was between them and the Hyena. After appraising the situation, Zuragavab raised his spear over his head and shook it as he ran at the hyenas shouting. Mariza followed close behind, waving and shouting, while Đak ran alongside barking and aparating. After a moment's hesitation, Volkovica and Vezava followed suit and also ran at the hyenas, screaming and waving. The Hyenas scattered and ran around to the oposite side of the dead horse, go the long way around to keep clear of the spears of the men. As soon as she got to the men, the Leader, Zezbrakran slapped Mariza so hard she fell to the ground!
“That was very foolish woman!“ signed Zezbrakran. “Next time let a hunter scare the preditors away! You could have been killed! What were you thinking?“
“Grrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!“ Đak imediatly sparted growling and Zezbrakran raised his spear and the blink-dog.
“ĐAK!“ Mariza made the sign that comanded Đak to roll over. Đak obediently rolled onto his back and wagged his tail, looking up at Mariza as she rose to her feet.
“First of all this woman is a woman-who-hunts!“ signed Mariza. “And this clanluna has told you before that it is no longer acceptable to hit women. As punishment, you will no longer have Needs to be Relieved for the next month.“
“This man will show you who's Need will be Relieved!“ signed Zezbrakran angrily, before giving Mariza the Signal.
Mariza just stared at him coldly for a moment until he raised his hand to hit her again.
“This clanluna will comply and Relieve your Needs,“ signed Mariza as she knelt before him. “But you will not have Needs again until this Weech decides to return them.“
Mariza then bent over and presented like a Clan woman would. She was very angry with the Leader and didn't what to do this. But she had already appointed herself the clanluna of Zorg's Clan. It was to duty to see that every wo/man had someone to Share Pleasures with. If she couldn't arrange for it to happen, she had to do it herself. But the Leader didn't know about Pleasures yet. At best, Mariza could Relieve his Needs. She knew, as a woman, she didn't have to do this. But she felt that if she wanted to remain the clanluna of these people, then she did have to. She believed it was Luna's will that she remain the clanluna of these people. And at this moment, in order to be the clanluna, she had to Relieve this man's Needs. . . . but he was not gentle with her. . . .it hurt almost as much and the Vanthonoi man had when he forced her! . . . . when Zezbrakran was finished, Mariza got up and looked him in the eye.
“This clanluna hopes that you enjoyed that . . . . because it will be a long time before you do that again . . . with anyone. . . .“
Mariza walked over to where the women were already at work on skinning and butchering the horse. Zezbrakran just shook his head. He didn't believe she had that kind of power of him.
“Who made the kill?“ asked Mariza.
“This man did!“ boasted Zubgranev.
“May this woman request that you take the stomach as part of your share?“ signed Mariza. “This Weech needs it.“
Zubgranev nodded his agreement.
After the horse was skinned and cut into small enough pieces, the women carried it back to the cave.
Outside the cave, the other women pulled out the racks to dry the meat, while Zezbrakruk when to go get a coal to start a fire. Mariza wadded up some tinder and pulled out her firestone.
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Mariza hit the firestone against her flint knife and a spark appeared and hit the tinder.
Mariza blew on the spark and it burst into flames just as Zezbrakruk arrive with holding a stone plate with a glowing coal on it.
“Where did this fire come from?“ signed Zezbrakruk.
“She made it with magic!“ signed Zuragakabaza. “This girl saw! She made fire from a stone!“
Mariza refrained from speaking. She didn't want to deceive these people. But she needed them to be a little in awe of her until her reforms had been adopted. Besides, until she could find another firestone, only one person at a time could make fire this way. She joined the rest of the women in hanging the meat to dry by the fire that Zezbrakruk built up bigger. Once this was done, She headed back to her stone-home with the horse stomach.
After cleaning out the stomach, Mariza put it on top of a tripod with each pole holding part of the open edge. Filling it with water, Mariza began heating stones in the fire to drop into the water in the stomach. Horse Stomachs did not a make as good a cauldron as a bison's one would. But it would be good enough for this potion. She had planned to brew some skelegrow for the wolf's fractured leg. She'd found enough ingredients. But after her earlier confrontation with the Leader, Zezbrakran had become a bigger priority. Many of the same ingredients in skelegrow, counld also be used for an impotentcy potion. Mariza decided to brew the permanent version . . . even though she was not certain she would be able to find the ingredients for an antidote . . . if she ever decided to give him his Needs back. She made a note to herself not to let any of the women cook food or them in the same stomach when she was done. It only took an hour and she was done. . . . she then added some vegatables and fresh horse meat to make a tasty stew for the Leader's hearth. Once she was done, she put it in a bowl and carried it over to the Leader's hearth.
“This Weech made this special stew for Zezbrakran,“ signed Mariza, as she handed the bowl to the Leader's mate, Zuragavaka.
After leaving the Leader's hearth, on her way back to her stone-home, Mariza took a look at where the sun was setting. She hadn't figured out what day it was yet. Back at the Abraxas Clan's cave, and also at the Đumbleđore Clan's, there was a series of markers that allowed one to calculate the exact day on the old chalander that Luna had used in her own time. It was still taught in astronomy class. But Mariza had lost track of time. Even though the stars told her what month it was. She'd have to watch until she saw the Summer Solstice happen before she would know the exact day.
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The next morning, Mariza took some of the sinews from the horse and hide and began working on a summer dress for Vojkovica, who was still wearing winter leggings and a wrapped cloak. The young woman was interested once she realized that Mariza was making some sort of garment. But when Mariza began threading her needle, Voljkovica's interest became more intense.
“Where did you get that needle with a hole in it?“ asked Voljkovica, in Vanthoni. (her native language)
“Weech make . . . magic make. . .“ replied Mariza as she mimed waving a non-existant wand. She then looked at her needle. Without her wand, she wouldn't be transfiguring any more needles out of splinters. She'd better figure out how to make one.
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It was a couple of days before Mariza had aquired to ingredients and made a potion the heal the wolf. The next morning. The wolf made her first tentative steps out of the stone-house. As soon as she was outside the entrance hole of the stone-house, Zuragavab spotted her.
“WOLF!“ shouted Zuragavab, as he ran for his spear. “Woooooollfff!!!“
As Spring turned into summer, their household became more established. The men hunted on the parktundra and made tools, the women gathered plants and processed hides. Mariza made Vojkovica a clanluna-style summer-dress, which the young woman wore as a tunic with her leggings. The wolf recoved enough to walk out of the house, which caused some consternation amongst the Clan. But they soon got used to the wolf and even called her by the name, Mariza had given her: Wolfie. But when she finished her bow, made some blunt headed arrows and tried walking out of the house with them, Zurvragun, the mog-ur's accolyte, spotted her.
“Clanluna! What do you have there?“ signed Zurvragun.
“This woman had made a bow and some baby spears,“ signed Mariza.
“Women are not allowed to touch weapons!“ waved Zurvragun. “Not even baby weapons!“
“They are amongst this woman's people,“ waved Mariza. “In fact, this is a hunting weapon that ONLY women use.“
The son of the mog-ur's mate took one of the arrows and examined the fletchings and the blunt end.
“You will not be able to kill anything with this,“ observed Zurvragun.
“This woman does not want to kill the animals,“ signed Mariza. “This woman wants to capture them alive.“
“More of your animal magic?“ asked Zurvragun?
“No, this Weech is using the animals for stone magic,“ signed Mariza.
Zurvragun made a dismissing sign at her, and Mariza retreated.
She was able to stun a few squirels with the arrows and brought them back to the house. Mariza was carefull that no one was watching as she cut the throat of the rodents, each over a different stone and chanelled the necromantic magic into charging the rune stones that she then places around the smoke hole to pull the smoke out of the house. Later rune stones warded the fire area so it couldn't ignite things outside the firecircle.
Summer grew hotter and Mariza was starting to teach the wolf and the cubs to help her hunt. But at this point, Đak and the cubs were too excitable and just scared off game.
Mariza and the young men were making progress at learning the Vanthonoi language from the girls. It had become so warm that Vojkovica had shed her leggings and now wore the summer-dress without them. And Vezava had taken to wearing Clan-syle wraps instead of her spring leggings and tunic, which was becoming too small. Mariza offered to make her a summer-dress, but the girl refused. Which was just as well, as Mariza's priority was to make them all Winter clothing for next Winter.
The young men of her hearth were learning to be better at Pleasures. And this was becoming a problem for her. She had an itch she couldn't scratch. When the young men did things to her that only men could do, it did feel good. She liked the closeness of joining with another person, even if he was a man. But was like scratching her foot when her hand itched. When they did things to her that a woman could do, she could close her eyes and imagine Đučaviča. But is someways this was worse! They could almost bring her to her peak, but not quite. If was like scratching right next to, but not on, the place that itched. And her upbringing combined with her recent religious fervor, meant she couldn't scratch that itch herself! Still, she was trying to teach these young men how to Share Pleasures. And so, in order to encourage them to do it right, she would emit fake moans at times that she thought most women usually would. It occured to her that she was faking it, just like Mara. Did Mara 'fake it' because, like Mariza, she thought she was serving Luna? Did Mara secretly prefer Pleasures with Women like Mariza did? It gave Mariza something to think about, as her frustration built.
So, when the shrinking charm on her broom finally wore off, Mariza was ecstatic! She threw off her wrap, skipped outside the house, straddled the broom and kicked off. Mariza thrilled at the feeling the wind caressing her body as she swooped and dove over the land! Looking down, she could see the member of Zorg's Clan looking up at her and pointing, before they decided she was a spirit and started ignoring her. After that, the Clan started treating her with more respect.
One summer day, when Mariza had gone off alone to forage for potion ingredients. Mariza heard the unmistakable sounds of a couple Share Pleasures. Mariza crept through the bushes until she saw them: Vojkovica was kneeling like a Clan women did when she Relieved a man's Needs, except her hands were held behind her back with her face on the ground. The back of her summer-dress was pulled up and Zuradaz was behind her thrushing into her as he tightly held her hands behind her back.
HOW DARE HE! Mariza had been thinking that the three young men of her hearth were almost ready to be mates with a woman and Share Pleasures with their mates. And She was going to ask one of them to perform Vojkovica's 1st Rites. But now, after all that work teaching them. . . letting them Relieve their Needs in her . . . sacrificing her body in her devotion to Luna for the good of the women of this Clan . . . . He was forcing her just like she had been forced! A murderous rage boiled through Mariza as she stomped forward to knock him off of her. She wondered would she be able to kill him? Or would he overpower her . . . perhaps even force her too? Mariza didn't care! She'd kill him or die trying!
Vojkovica (14) – Other, of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan
Vezava (13) – Other, of the Vanthonoi, abducted by Zorg's Clan
Mariza (19) - Other, (Golden blonde hair, sky-blue eyes) Ayla’s daughter, Weech, , Đučaviča’s former 2nd mate. clanluna, redfoot, N: Cr,H,R,Div, Care prodigy (Stork totem)
---Zariz (4) – ¼ Clan son of Mariza, Weez-ur
---Širiža (0) – Other, Mariza’s daughter, Weech
------Đak (5) – blink-dog
------Međveđj (3) Cave Bear
Zurvgak (14) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava, future mog-ur's acolyte
Zubgranev (14) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurbgrana
Zuradaz – (14) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza
Zezbrakran (40) – 1/16 Clan son of Zezbraka, Leader
---Zuragavaka (33) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragava, mate of Zezbrakran
Zurbgun (53)-1/8 Clan son of Zurbga, mog-ur
Zurvragun (38) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvraga, mog-ur's acolyte
---Zurvgakava (29) - 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zurvragun
------Zurvgakun (11) - 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakava,
Zezbrakruk (37) -1/8 Clan son of Zezbraka
---Zurbgrana (37) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zurbgra, medicine woman, mate of Zezbrakruk
Zuradanak (35) -1/32 Clan son of Zuradana
---Zurvgakaza (32) – 1/8 Clan daughter of Zurvgaka, mate of Zuradanak
------Zuradan (17) – 1/16 Clan son of Zurvgakaza
Zuradavun (35) – 1/32 Clan son of Zuradava
--- Zuragakada (31) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zuradavun
------ Zuragakadava (13) - 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zuragavab
Zurvgav (34) – 1/8 Clan son of Zurvgava
--- Zuragakaba (28) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragaka, mate of Zurvgav
------ Zuragakabaza (13) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba
------ Zuragakabava (10) – 1/16 Clan daughter of Zuragakaba
Zuragavaz (18) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragavaka, future Leader
---Zuragakadaza (16)– 1/32 Clan daughter of Zuragakada, mate of Zuragavaz
------ Zuragakadazad (1) – 1/64 Clan son of Zuragakadaza, future leader
Zuragavab (15) – 1/32 Clan son of Zuragavaka
---Zurbgranaza (17) – 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgrana, medicine woman, mate of Zuragavab
------ Zurbgranazaga (2) 1/32 Clan daughter of Zurbgranaza
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