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Clanluna
(In the pašt I’ve ušeđ funny letterš to inđičate Englišh with a Đumbleđore ačćent. I’m not using them when they speak their native language except for nameš and čertain worđš.)
Chapter 113: Grević’ član
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Earth’s Children is owned by Jean Auel
Zariz and his family rode the portkey back to the home of the Đumbleđore Član. He and his son, Želžum were the only ones who were not members of the Đumbleđores, so for everyone else this was going home for the last time. A Group of them were hiving off from the Đumbleđore član, and Zariz, who had gotten Đelđuma to mate him on the condition that after his magical training ended, they would move back to her član, was going with them. Seeing everyone else go back to their stone-houses. Zariz asked:
“Do we need to set up the tipi?”
“No, I’m certain we can stay with my mother tonight,” replied Đelđuma, before leading him into the cave.
The cave was much smaller than either his mother, Mariza’s cave, or the Luna’s cave. The Đumblđores had made up for their small cave by piling stones to make stone houses. Đelđuma was the daughter of the chief clanluna of the Đumbleđore član, and her mother’s mate was the Leader. So their hearth had room for two guests and a small child.
After they had settled and eaten dinner, Grević asked them out to the cave’s central fire. The rest of their proto-član was already present, sitting around the fire.
“I called you all together because we need to discuss a few things before we leave tomorrow,” began Grević. He had the brown hair and hazel eyes that most of the Đumbleđores had, but his Clan heritage showed in is decreased height and prominent brow ridges. “I think we are going to have to leave the boats behind.”
“You can’t be serious!” exclaimed Igača. “How will we fish?”
“I know. It will be a hardship.” agreed Grević “But a good place to live looks a lot different from a good place to fish. We’ll have to come back for them after we find our cave.”
“We’ve got four Weez-urs,” suggested Đeeš. “Once we find a good cave, we could apparate back, and make a portkey to bring back the boats.”
“Why don’t we just shrink the boats and take them with us?” asked Zariz.
“You can do that? Of course you can! Having four Weez-urs in our član is going to be great!” said Grević.
“Something you said earlier . . . do you mean you’re starting a new clan but don’t already have a cave picked out for it?” asked Zariz.
“No, and I’ll need all you Weez-ur types to sniff one out for us,” replied Grević.
“Has anyone besides me taken all five years of Divination?” asked Zariz.
The other three Weez-urs shook their heads.
“Then I guess I’ll do some readings and let the rest of you know,” announced Zariz.
When Zariz did his readings, he discounted the possibilities that were to the South. The Nott član was already living there were the river flows into the sea. He also discounted moving over the ridge and into the valley between the mountains. The Everarđ član already lived there. It had been recently discovered that the river nearest them was the same river that flowed into the sea where the Nott član lived. A član was hiving off of the Everarđs and was planning to live on the banks of the river, up stream from their old član. So Zariz concentrated his search to the North, along the coast. Not only would this bring him closer to his mother’s clan, he knew that the rest of his new član would want to be on the sea coast. After doing geomantic readings, scrying and reading the entrails of a ptarmigan, Zariz found an area where there was sure to be good place for them to live.
The next morning, Đelđuma helped Cover Zariz with Warming potion before he took flight on his broom. He flew North for several hours along the coast before he found the area where he had foreseen a cave to be located. Seeing it from the air, Zeen saw that there was a river flowing into the sea. Up stream a short way, there was a large waterfall and above the waterfall was a large lake.
Zariz landed his broom, then apparated back to the Đumbleđore član with a: Pop!
Now that he had been there, Zariz could make a portkey to the area. Once he had gotten dressed, gathered the rest of the član together. Now that he had been there, Zariz could make a portkey to the place. The whole član was able to travel there in an instant. The Weez-urs stunned and shrunk the animals, as well as the člans possessions, Then all the members of the Peverel član grabbed the mammoth hide, Zariz had turned into a portkey.
Once they had arrived, Zariz pulled out his divining rod and began dousing out the actual location of the cave. The other members of the član followed him as he doused, led by Grević the Leader, Ood the mog-ur and Đelđuma the clanluna. They had appeared on the shore of the Sea, where the river flowed into it. Some islands could be seen offshore. Inland, was a forest and the sound of a waterfall. As Zariz dowsed, he led them further and further from the river across rocky ground. Finally the group came to a stop as they reached their destination. There was a tall cliff with a large rock overhang.
“That’s it?” asked Androm.
“No, it’s perfect!” said Grević, “Look at all these rocks on the ground! We can build lot of stone-houses!”
“Or perhaps, one big one,” suggested Ood.
“Yes! If we add on to that rock overhang we could make a series of interconnected stone-houses, like the partitions in our old cave,” exclaimed Đeeš.
“Well the first thing we need to do is set up camp,” proclaimed Grević.
Using their wands, Ood, Zariz, Đeeš, and Zoub quickly cleared away enough of the forest to set up their tipis. They then used magic to assist in erecting the tipis and enlarging their possessions. The animals were enlarged and revived last.
After some discussion, it was decided to wall up the rock overhang and turn it into a ritual room. Attached to it would be a large central chamber, with six rooms attached to it. One for each family. When Zariz requested that his room be extra-large so that he could take care of patients, Ood wanted a bigger room for mog-ur things, and Grević wanted a bigger room because he was leader. In the end, it was decided to make each family’s room the same size, but to make them extra large.
Grević had feared that they would not be able to finish the complex before winter. But the four Weez-urs were able to levitate large stones that he had thought were possible to build with. By the end of the day, they had enclosed the rock overhang as a room, and built the walls of the large central chamber. Moving the stones was no problem with magical assistance. It was stacking them properly so that they would be air-tight that had delayed things this much.
After Đelđuma had fed her mate and child their dinner, she turned to Zariz and said:
“I need to discuss some things with Ood, can you watch Želžum?”
“Certainly,” replied Zariz.
“Thanks!” said Đelđuma, as she kissed her mate goodbye before stepping out of the tipi.
A few minutes later, Ood’s mates Igača and Đoročia entered the tipi, bringing their children with them.
“What brings you here tonight?” asked Zariz.
“Your mate wanted to talk private clanluna things with ours,” explained Igača.
Just then, Zariz heard Đelđuma gasp, in Pleasure. The wall of the tipis did not muffle sound very much and he could hear her in the next tipi. He didn’t need to be a seer to guess what they were doing.
“clanluna things . . . . Hmmmm . . . . Looks like I may need to get to know you two goddesses a little better,” said Zariz, with a wink.
Igača smiled at that, while Đoročia blushed and giggled.
In the next tipi, Đelđuma were Sharing Pleasures sitting, facing each other, with her on his lap. Very slowly she rocked back and forth as she kissed him and gazed into his eyes. Leaning back, but still gazing into his eyes, Đelđuma said:
“mmmm! . . . . I think I’m going to like having a male članluna in the same član! . . . . mmmm! . . . . so I wanted to talk about . . . . mmm . . . . our roles as članluna and mog-ur in the same član . . .”
“mmm . . . can we talk about this after we are done?” panted Ood. “I mean . . . mmm . . . I can’t think clearly while you do that . . . mmmm . . . right now I would give you anything you asked . . . .”
“mmmm . . . that’s why and wanted to discuss it like this,” moaned Đelđuma. “I’ll tell you a secret . . . mmm . . . right now I’m willing to let you have anything you want too! . . . mmm . . . so let’s just be honest about what we want and . . . mmm . . . try to make each other’s dreams come true. . . .”
“mmm . . . well in the Đumbleđore član, I felt like your mother did not let me be a proper mog-ur. . . . she had been the članluna of her član for so many years without a mog-ur that she did not know how to make room for a mog-ur. . . . That is why I persuaded Grević to start a new član. . . . so I could be the mog-ur. . . . I am not happy to have to share power with a članluna . . . well, I was not until now . . .” panted Ood.
“mmm . . . I know what you mean . . . I grew up with my mother as the članluna and no mog-ur or medicine woman . . . . but my time with the Luna’s član has opened my eyes on how to have both. . . . how about we share matings, and funerals . . . . I will name babies and you will find and announce their totems. . . . You will lead Mens Ceremonies and hunting ceremonies . . . . I will lead Women’s Ceremonies and Mother Festivals . . . . my mate, Zariz, will do healing, but we . . . will assist him . . . also, I want . . . . I want . . . . I want to do special clanluna only ceremonies . . . like this . . . and more Mother Festivals . . . .” moaned Đelđuma.
“mmmm . . . right now I want to give you every thing you want,” panted Ood.
“Oh Yes! Give it to me!” moaned Đelđuma
“mmm . . . we’ll see it I still feel that way when we have calmed down . . .” panted Ood.
When Đelđuma returned to her tipi, she had not bothered to get dressed. She’d washed off in the river and was carrying her tunic, leggings and boots in her hands as she entered the tipi.
Zariz, Igača and Đoročia were laughing. But their laughter abruptly stopped when Đelđuma entered the tipi.
“Well, looks like it’s time to go back,” said Igača. “Thank you for a lovely evening!”
“Yes, you’re right, we WILL have to get to know one another better,” added Đoročia, as she glanced at Đelđuma’s nakedness.
Once the two women and their children were gone, Zariz turned to his mate.
“Did you have a good discussion of clanluna things?” asked Zariz.
“Oh, Yes! It was very productive.” replied Đelđuma.
“Yes, we could hear you,” said Zariz.
“Jealous?” asked Đelđuma.
“Only if you are too tired for more,” replied Zariz.
“Not even close!” said Đelđuma as she lay back on the furs and gave her mate a sultry gaze. “Ood and I may have Shared Pleasures, but their was no Need Relieving. I think Ood's mates will be quite pleased with the state I left him in. . . . Now come down here and Relieve my Needs.”
The next night, Đelđuma paid a similar visit to Androm to negotiate his role as a male članluna under her.
It was 5 days before the multi-roomed stone-house was finished. The whole član cheered when Ood levitated to final stone into place. Everyone started heading to the tipis for their belongings where Ood announced:
“Grević should lead us on a hunt. If the hunt is successful, then we can make the new cave our home.”
For the rest of the evening, Grević organized hunting strategy. When they were in the Đumbleđore član, men and women had hunted together and weapons had not been segregated by gender. But in the decades since they had joined the clanluna, more and more women had adopted the bow and the sling. Of the hunters who were going. Grević, Đoročia, Androm and Lorka would all be armed with spears. Grević, Đeeš and Zoub had their wands. While Ood would be flying overhead on his broom scouting out game.
The next morning before they set out, the Weez-urs silenced their feet. Đoročia helped her mate with the warming potion before he took flight. As soon as he rose off the ground, Ood realized how difficult this might be. They hadn’t really had time to explore this area. But they didn’t appear to have a steppe or park-tundra where large herbivores lived. They had Sea and a lake and a river and forest. Lots of forrest. Trying to douse while flying was difficult, but soon, Ood found something under the trees. He signed to the others what he had found and where. But Grević didn’t understand. Androm had to translate his signs. Clan signs had been Androm and Ood’s first language, learned from their mother, Iga. Zariz and Zoub had both learned it at an early age too. Đeeš had picked it up during his years of training to be a Weez-ur. The others only knew bits of sign. But Grević was seeing how useful signing could be during a hunt. He resolved to learn more.
The hunters spread out so far that the could barely see each other in the forrest and headed towards the prey. They had encircled them before they saw them. The deer tried to flee, but there was no safe direction to run. With the spear wealders and the Weez-urs on opposite sides from each other. The Weez-urs could deflect any spears that missed their targets and the spear throwers didn’t have to worry about hitting each other.
There was a mass of confusion as people threw spears and Weez-urs cast spells. When the rest of the deer had escaped, it was found that Grević and Đoročia had each felled a deer. And Zariz had stunned another. Their work on the Stone-house had not been in vain!
The Weez-urs shrunk the deer and carried them back to camp, where they were butchered and cooked. But not before Grević buried the hearts where each deer had fallen and shared a piece of the liver with each of the hunters.
After the dinner feast, the hunters acted out the hunt in a dance with Đoročia and Lorka playing the part of the deer. At the climax of the dance, when both the deer were dead, a low growl emerged from the stone-house. Everyone look towards the entrance to see Ood coming out of the stone house. He was wearing a Clan-style wrap and a Cave Bear cloak and headdress that had been charmed to be animated like Zeen’s was. The eyes moved and it occasionally growled. In one hand Ood held his wand with the tip glowing. In the other the held a bowl of potion.
As Ood stood in the doorway of the Stone-house, Androm’s voice echoed from within.
“Long ago, when few remember, we were Clan, the Clan of the cave bear. The Clan had lived the same way unchanging for many lives, guided in the ways of the totems by the mog-ur.”
A soon as Ood the mog-ur stepped away from the entrance of the stone-house, Đelđuma was revealed. She had taken the red ochre used to mark a redfoot and covered her whole body with it. She wore nothing else. In her hands she carried another bowl of potion.
“But then the Luna came to us and we learned that there was true magic in the world.”
Ood shot a spell out of his wand that flew up into the air and exploded in a flash of light like a firework.
“And the Clanluna told us the secrets of the Great Mother Luna and her gift of Pleasures.”
Androm emerged from the stone-house, naked like Đelđuma, except his body was painted all in an iridescent white.
“And the Luna’s gift of Pleasures brought us much joy,” said Đelđuma, before kissing Androm and handing her bowl to him.
“And we became a joining of Clan and Other, Totem and Goddess,” said Ood before kissing Đelđuma and handing her his bowl.
“Today we spend first night in a new cave, a cave of our own making,” announced Đelđuma.
“As a reminder of our Clan origins, we will have Men’s and Women’s Ceremonies,” announced Ood, before beckoning to the men. Androm then turned and followed Ood into the Stone House, back to the chamber that was under the rock overhang. The men followed.
Đelđuma Shared the potion in the bowl with each of the women and the children. The recipe had changed since the Clan days. Iga had introduced sacred mushrooms to induce visions and Ayla had invented a pair of potion, each taylor made to suit that gender’s Ceremony. The men’s version was designed to induce visions and aid memory. The Women's version was formulated to make children sleep and women lose their inhibitions. Once all the women had put their children to bed, Đelđuma began tapping out a rhythm on the bottom of the bowl in the central chamber of the Stone house. Soon all the women were dancing frenetically in the Central Chamber.
As Zariz sat in a circle with the other men letting Ood guide them back though the memories to the time of their common ancestors of both Clan and Other, It occurred to him that four of the six men, like him were trained as mog-urs. He didn’t need Ood to guide him back through the memories. He could do it himself. . . . Zariz pulled away from the others and took a peek into Ood’s personal memories . . . his very recent ones . . . of Ood and Đelđuma Sharing Pleasures. . . . Seeing this memory, It occurred to Zariz that although they probably both be willing to re-enact this memory if he asked, Ood probably wouldn’t like him prying into this particular memory. . . . Zariz’ memory drifted back to a Charms class . . . Zeen had been discussing memory charms and made a brief mention of Legimancy and Occulomancy, a pair of branches of magic that no one knew how to do, but had existed in Luna’s future world. . . . Zariz was struck be the similarity between looking into someone’s memory who’s mind is linked with yours and looking into someone’s mind without establishing a link first. . . . He’d have to experiment with this first. . . . Shifting into Grević’ memories, Zariz took a peak at Đelđuma’s childhood. . . . He found looking for someone important to make it easier to find the memory. . . .
The next morning, the men emerged from the back chamber to find the women all sprawled naked in the central chamber. The women had apparently had a successful Ceremony. Zariz went into his chamber. Želžum awoke when he entered. His son was hungry. But Zariz didn’t want to wake Đelđuma. He picked up little Želžum and rocked him with one hand while the other used his wand to heat some water for tea. Perhaps that might hold him over until she awoke. He had just finished making the tea when Đelđuma returned to their chamber. She was still covered in Red Ochre. It had stained her skin and would not be coming off soon.
“Why haven’t you started a fire?” asked Đelđuma.
“Good morning to you too,” replied Zariz. “Put your tunic on and maybe you will be a little warmer.”
Zariz flicked his wand as her tunic flew at her. As soon as she’d put it on, he did the same with her leggings.
“I did not start a fire yet because I do not want to smoke up the chamber before I charge up the rune-stones,” said Zariz, as he handed Želžum to his mother. Who let him pull up her tunic so he could nurse.
Zariz then started carving runes in the hearth stones and the ones around the hole at the peak of the domed ceiling. He then began charging the runestones one by one.
“Didn’t you tell me your mother used Pleasures to do the same thing?” asked Đelđuma. “Why don’t we do that?”
“We could.” admitted Zariz. “I have experimented with the technique. But it would take too long. We would have to Share Pleasures separately to charge each runestone.”
“I don’t mind . . .” said Đelđuma, as she gave her mate a sultry smile.
“I though you were cold?” asked Zariz. “How about I save you one and we will charge the last one after you finish feeding him?”
Đelđuma nodded enthusiastically before turning thoughtful. “This gives me an idea! If all the Weez-ur did the same with their hearths and help the other two hearths, then we could use a Mother Festival to Charge the runestones in the Central Chamber!”
“You will find any excuse for a Mother Festival,” laughed Zariz.
After they had finished the last runestone of their hearth, Zariz lit a fire and watched the smoke form a ribbon out the top of the chamber. He then told the other Weez-urs of his mate, the članluna’s plan. Each of the Weez-urs did the same with their own hearth and Ood charged Grević’ hearth with the help of Knežjka. Zariz did the same with Đuča at Androm’s hearth.
That night, Đelđuma and Androm gathered the član together in the central Chamber. After explaining what they were going to do. Androm signaled for the children to start drumming. Đelđuma offered a sip of the Mother Festival tea, then began leading them in the Mother Festival Dance. Once the tea had taken effect, the women picked a partner and left the dance, except instead of going to their chambers, the women took their partners to the central fire circle to charge a runestone. Zariz had already charged the runestones in the ceiling hole and and enough of the fire ones that there was one remaining stone for each Weez-ur to Charge. Zariz was one of the first men picked . . . by Đoroča, Ood’s mate. He noticed that Đelđuma, who as clanluna got to pick last, had been picked by Igača, Ood’s other mate. Even with the tea, Zariz wasn’t certain he could Share Pleasures for a third time today. So he concentrated on Relieving Đorroča’s Need. When he sense it was about to be Relieved, he put his wand on her pleasure button and sent a surge of magic through her and into the runestone. Her scream of Pleasure, had even woman in the room stop for a second to look at him, hungrily. Once she had recovered, Đoroča insisted on resuming until Zariz’ Need was Relieved.
After the Mother Festival Ceremony, Ood lit the central fire and the smoke formed a ribbon to the ceiling hole.
Now that they had settled, There was still enough autumn for more hunting, gathering, fishing and exploring. Đelđuma no longer had her own boat. She planned to make a new one next spring and planned to make it on the lake. In the meantime, she often went fishing with Androm in his boat. Zariz had done a bit of exploring on his broom and found that the lake was fed by a river that went through a canyon to another waterfall and on top of that was yet another lake.
Zariz also practiced trying to look into Đelđuma’s mind. (with her permission)
By winter, it was apparent that Both Đelđuma and Zoub’s mate, Hađiča were Blessed. But when it came time to deliver Hađiča’s baby, she didn’t want Zariz to deliver it. She only wanted Đelđuma to be present. After some argument, Đelđuma relented. But as she helped Hađiča breath and push. A sudden gust of wind blew up the hide that acted as a door to the chamber. Đelđuma ignored it and didn’t call Hađiča’s attention to it when the appropriate potions levitated out of Zariz’s case and into her hand. But this was turning out to be a very difficult birth. Đelđuma had been trained as a članluna with the idea that she might be the only healer for her član. But she was not a Medicine Woman. Zariz, however, was a Medicine Man and knew more about healing than her. Finally, Đelđuma was forced to admit defeat.
“Listen Hađiča, the baby is not coming out,” said Đelđuma. “If I cut you open, I might be able to save the baby, but you’ll die. . . . Or I could give you this potion and the baby will die. You’ll still have to push it out. But you’ll be able to have another one someday.”
“No! Save my baby!” yelled Hađica.
“But you’ll die!” exclaimed Đelđuma.
“I don’t care! Save my baby!” yelled Hađica.
Peverell Clan of the Clanluna list
Grević (27) ½ Clan, Đelić’s son, Leader
---Knežjka (31) – Other, Željka’s daughter
------Krola (10) – ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s daughter,
------Kačunič (7) - ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s Son
------Đujmoviča (4) – ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s daughter,
------ (0) - ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s Son
Ood Ađ (26) – ¼ Clan, (Red-hair, gray eyes) Iga’s son, clanluna, Weez-Ur, mog-ur, N: C,T,D,R
---Igača Hđ (26) – Other, Čović’s Daughter, Ood’s Mate.
------Ijađič (8) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
------Đurič (4) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
------ (1) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
---Đoročia (18) – Other, Đihovilo’s daughter, Ood’s 2nd mate
------ (3) – ¼ Clan, Đoročia’s son, Weez-Ur
------ (0) - 1/8 Clan, Đoročia’s son, Weez-Ur
Zariz Ah (17) – ¼ Clan (Clan-brown hair, Sky-blue eyes) son of Mariza, Weez-ur, Medicine Man (Adopted by Thonda), N: C,T,D,R, Cr,H,Div,p
---Đelđuma Đ (17) – Other, Krstulović’s daughter, clanluna, Zariz’ mate
------Želžum, (2) – ¼ Clan, Đelđuma’s son, Weez-ur
Đeeš Ea (22) – ¼ Clan (Clan-brown hair, hazel eyes) Đišič’s son, Weez-Ur
---Žayljača Hđ (22) – Other, Željka’s daughter, Đeeš’ mate
------Đešpotošič (6) – ¼ Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
------ (3) - 1/8 Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
------ (0) - 1/8 Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
Zoub A (19) – ½ Clan son of Ebra, (Clan-brown hair, Gray eyes) Weez-ur
---Hađiča Hđ (23) – Other Đelić’s daughter, Zoub’s mate
------Zađ (8) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
------Đomič (5) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
------ (2) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
Androm A (17) - Iga’s 1/16 Clan son, acolyle
---Đuča Đ (17) – Other, Đeča’s daughter, Androm’s mate.
---Lorka Vđ (21) – daughter of Larnuira, Telton's 2nd widow and Vojkur's 3rd widow, Androm’s 2nd mate
------Vorka Vđ (6) - daughter of Lorka,
------ (3) - daughter of Lorka,
------ (0) - 1/32 Clan, Lorka’s son
------------Various Snorkacks
------------Various Push-me/pull-yous (Wool, Furs, Meat)
---------various Cave bears descended from Hug Giver
Clanluna
(In the pašt I’ve ušeđ funny letterš to inđičate Englišh with a Đumbleđore ačćent. I’m not using them when they speak their native language except for nameš and čertain worđš.)
Chapter 113: Grević’ član
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Zariz and his family rode the portkey back to the home of the Đumbleđore Član. He and his son, Želžum were the only ones who were not members of the Đumbleđores, so for everyone else this was going home for the last time. A Group of them were hiving off from the Đumbleđore član, and Zariz, who had gotten Đelđuma to mate him on the condition that after his magical training ended, they would move back to her član, was going with them. Seeing everyone else go back to their stone-houses. Zariz asked:
“Do we need to set up the tipi?”
“No, I’m certain we can stay with my mother tonight,” replied Đelđuma, before leading him into the cave.
The cave was much smaller than either his mother, Mariza’s cave, or the Luna’s cave. The Đumblđores had made up for their small cave by piling stones to make stone houses. Đelđuma was the daughter of the chief clanluna of the Đumbleđore član, and her mother’s mate was the Leader. So their hearth had room for two guests and a small child.
After they had settled and eaten dinner, Grević asked them out to the cave’s central fire. The rest of their proto-član was already present, sitting around the fire.
“I called you all together because we need to discuss a few things before we leave tomorrow,” began Grević. He had the brown hair and hazel eyes that most of the Đumbleđores had, but his Clan heritage showed in is decreased height and prominent brow ridges. “I think we are going to have to leave the boats behind.”
“You can’t be serious!” exclaimed Igača. “How will we fish?”
“I know. It will be a hardship.” agreed Grević “But a good place to live looks a lot different from a good place to fish. We’ll have to come back for them after we find our cave.”
“We’ve got four Weez-urs,” suggested Đeeš. “Once we find a good cave, we could apparate back, and make a portkey to bring back the boats.”
“Why don’t we just shrink the boats and take them with us?” asked Zariz.
“You can do that? Of course you can! Having four Weez-urs in our član is going to be great!” said Grević.
“Something you said earlier . . . do you mean you’re starting a new clan but don’t already have a cave picked out for it?” asked Zariz.
“No, and I’ll need all you Weez-ur types to sniff one out for us,” replied Grević.
“Has anyone besides me taken all five years of Divination?” asked Zariz.
The other three Weez-urs shook their heads.
“Then I guess I’ll do some readings and let the rest of you know,” announced Zariz.
When Zariz did his readings, he discounted the possibilities that were to the South. The Nott član was already living there were the river flows into the sea. He also discounted moving over the ridge and into the valley between the mountains. The Everarđ član already lived there. It had been recently discovered that the river nearest them was the same river that flowed into the sea where the Nott član lived. A član was hiving off of the Everarđs and was planning to live on the banks of the river, up stream from their old član. So Zariz concentrated his search to the North, along the coast. Not only would this bring him closer to his mother’s clan, he knew that the rest of his new član would want to be on the sea coast. After doing geomantic readings, scrying and reading the entrails of a ptarmigan, Zariz found an area where there was sure to be good place for them to live.
The next morning, Đelđuma helped Cover Zariz with Warming potion before he took flight on his broom. He flew North for several hours along the coast before he found the area where he had foreseen a cave to be located. Seeing it from the air, Zeen saw that there was a river flowing into the sea. Up stream a short way, there was a large waterfall and above the waterfall was a large lake.
Zariz landed his broom, then apparated back to the Đumbleđore član with a: Pop!
Now that he had been there, Zariz could make a portkey to the area. Once he had gotten dressed, gathered the rest of the član together. Now that he had been there, Zariz could make a portkey to the place. The whole član was able to travel there in an instant. The Weez-urs stunned and shrunk the animals, as well as the člans possessions, Then all the members of the Peverel član grabbed the mammoth hide, Zariz had turned into a portkey.
Once they had arrived, Zariz pulled out his divining rod and began dousing out the actual location of the cave. The other members of the član followed him as he doused, led by Grević the Leader, Ood the mog-ur and Đelđuma the clanluna. They had appeared on the shore of the Sea, where the river flowed into it. Some islands could be seen offshore. Inland, was a forest and the sound of a waterfall. As Zariz dowsed, he led them further and further from the river across rocky ground. Finally the group came to a stop as they reached their destination. There was a tall cliff with a large rock overhang.
“That’s it?” asked Androm.
“No, it’s perfect!” said Grević, “Look at all these rocks on the ground! We can build lot of stone-houses!”
“Or perhaps, one big one,” suggested Ood.
“Yes! If we add on to that rock overhang we could make a series of interconnected stone-houses, like the partitions in our old cave,” exclaimed Đeeš.
“Well the first thing we need to do is set up camp,” proclaimed Grević.
Using their wands, Ood, Zariz, Đeeš, and Zoub quickly cleared away enough of the forest to set up their tipis. They then used magic to assist in erecting the tipis and enlarging their possessions. The animals were enlarged and revived last.
After some discussion, it was decided to wall up the rock overhang and turn it into a ritual room. Attached to it would be a large central chamber, with six rooms attached to it. One for each family. When Zariz requested that his room be extra-large so that he could take care of patients, Ood wanted a bigger room for mog-ur things, and Grević wanted a bigger room because he was leader. In the end, it was decided to make each family’s room the same size, but to make them extra large.
Grević had feared that they would not be able to finish the complex before winter. But the four Weez-urs were able to levitate large stones that he had thought were possible to build with. By the end of the day, they had enclosed the rock overhang as a room, and built the walls of the large central chamber. Moving the stones was no problem with magical assistance. It was stacking them properly so that they would be air-tight that had delayed things this much.
After Đelđuma had fed her mate and child their dinner, she turned to Zariz and said:
“I need to discuss some things with Ood, can you watch Želžum?”
“Certainly,” replied Zariz.
“Thanks!” said Đelđuma, as she kissed her mate goodbye before stepping out of the tipi.
A few minutes later, Ood’s mates Igača and Đoročia entered the tipi, bringing their children with them.
“What brings you here tonight?” asked Zariz.
“Your mate wanted to talk private clanluna things with ours,” explained Igača.
Just then, Zariz heard Đelđuma gasp, in Pleasure. The wall of the tipis did not muffle sound very much and he could hear her in the next tipi. He didn’t need to be a seer to guess what they were doing.
“clanluna things . . . . Hmmmm . . . . Looks like I may need to get to know you two goddesses a little better,” said Zariz, with a wink.
Igača smiled at that, while Đoročia blushed and giggled.
In the next tipi, Đelđuma were Sharing Pleasures sitting, facing each other, with her on his lap. Very slowly she rocked back and forth as she kissed him and gazed into his eyes. Leaning back, but still gazing into his eyes, Đelđuma said:
“mmmm! . . . . I think I’m going to like having a male članluna in the same član! . . . . mmmm! . . . . so I wanted to talk about . . . . mmm . . . . our roles as članluna and mog-ur in the same član . . .”
“mmm . . . can we talk about this after we are done?” panted Ood. “I mean . . . mmm . . . I can’t think clearly while you do that . . . mmmm . . . right now I would give you anything you asked . . . .”
“mmmm . . . that’s why and wanted to discuss it like this,” moaned Đelđuma. “I’ll tell you a secret . . . mmm . . . right now I’m willing to let you have anything you want too! . . . mmm . . . so let’s just be honest about what we want and . . . mmm . . . try to make each other’s dreams come true. . . .”
“mmm . . . well in the Đumbleđore član, I felt like your mother did not let me be a proper mog-ur. . . . she had been the članluna of her član for so many years without a mog-ur that she did not know how to make room for a mog-ur. . . . That is why I persuaded Grević to start a new član. . . . so I could be the mog-ur. . . . I am not happy to have to share power with a članluna . . . well, I was not until now . . .” panted Ood.
“mmm . . . I know what you mean . . . I grew up with my mother as the članluna and no mog-ur or medicine woman . . . . but my time with the Luna’s član has opened my eyes on how to have both. . . . how about we share matings, and funerals . . . . I will name babies and you will find and announce their totems. . . . You will lead Mens Ceremonies and hunting ceremonies . . . . I will lead Women’s Ceremonies and Mother Festivals . . . . my mate, Zariz, will do healing, but we . . . will assist him . . . also, I want . . . . I want . . . . I want to do special clanluna only ceremonies . . . like this . . . and more Mother Festivals . . . .” moaned Đelđuma.
“mmmm . . . right now I want to give you every thing you want,” panted Ood.
“Oh Yes! Give it to me!” moaned Đelđuma
“mmm . . . we’ll see it I still feel that way when we have calmed down . . .” panted Ood.
When Đelđuma returned to her tipi, she had not bothered to get dressed. She’d washed off in the river and was carrying her tunic, leggings and boots in her hands as she entered the tipi.
Zariz, Igača and Đoročia were laughing. But their laughter abruptly stopped when Đelđuma entered the tipi.
“Well, looks like it’s time to go back,” said Igača. “Thank you for a lovely evening!”
“Yes, you’re right, we WILL have to get to know one another better,” added Đoročia, as she glanced at Đelđuma’s nakedness.
Once the two women and their children were gone, Zariz turned to his mate.
“Did you have a good discussion of clanluna things?” asked Zariz.
“Oh, Yes! It was very productive.” replied Đelđuma.
“Yes, we could hear you,” said Zariz.
“Jealous?” asked Đelđuma.
“Only if you are too tired for more,” replied Zariz.
“Not even close!” said Đelđuma as she lay back on the furs and gave her mate a sultry gaze. “Ood and I may have Shared Pleasures, but their was no Need Relieving. I think Ood's mates will be quite pleased with the state I left him in. . . . Now come down here and Relieve my Needs.”
The next night, Đelđuma paid a similar visit to Androm to negotiate his role as a male članluna under her.
It was 5 days before the multi-roomed stone-house was finished. The whole član cheered when Ood levitated to final stone into place. Everyone started heading to the tipis for their belongings where Ood announced:
“Grević should lead us on a hunt. If the hunt is successful, then we can make the new cave our home.”
For the rest of the evening, Grević organized hunting strategy. When they were in the Đumbleđore član, men and women had hunted together and weapons had not been segregated by gender. But in the decades since they had joined the clanluna, more and more women had adopted the bow and the sling. Of the hunters who were going. Grević, Đoročia, Androm and Lorka would all be armed with spears. Grević, Đeeš and Zoub had their wands. While Ood would be flying overhead on his broom scouting out game.
The next morning before they set out, the Weez-urs silenced their feet. Đoročia helped her mate with the warming potion before he took flight. As soon as he rose off the ground, Ood realized how difficult this might be. They hadn’t really had time to explore this area. But they didn’t appear to have a steppe or park-tundra where large herbivores lived. They had Sea and a lake and a river and forest. Lots of forrest. Trying to douse while flying was difficult, but soon, Ood found something under the trees. He signed to the others what he had found and where. But Grević didn’t understand. Androm had to translate his signs. Clan signs had been Androm and Ood’s first language, learned from their mother, Iga. Zariz and Zoub had both learned it at an early age too. Đeeš had picked it up during his years of training to be a Weez-ur. The others only knew bits of sign. But Grević was seeing how useful signing could be during a hunt. He resolved to learn more.
The hunters spread out so far that the could barely see each other in the forrest and headed towards the prey. They had encircled them before they saw them. The deer tried to flee, but there was no safe direction to run. With the spear wealders and the Weez-urs on opposite sides from each other. The Weez-urs could deflect any spears that missed their targets and the spear throwers didn’t have to worry about hitting each other.
There was a mass of confusion as people threw spears and Weez-urs cast spells. When the rest of the deer had escaped, it was found that Grević and Đoročia had each felled a deer. And Zariz had stunned another. Their work on the Stone-house had not been in vain!
The Weez-urs shrunk the deer and carried them back to camp, where they were butchered and cooked. But not before Grević buried the hearts where each deer had fallen and shared a piece of the liver with each of the hunters.
After the dinner feast, the hunters acted out the hunt in a dance with Đoročia and Lorka playing the part of the deer. At the climax of the dance, when both the deer were dead, a low growl emerged from the stone-house. Everyone look towards the entrance to see Ood coming out of the stone house. He was wearing a Clan-style wrap and a Cave Bear cloak and headdress that had been charmed to be animated like Zeen’s was. The eyes moved and it occasionally growled. In one hand Ood held his wand with the tip glowing. In the other the held a bowl of potion.
As Ood stood in the doorway of the Stone-house, Androm’s voice echoed from within.
“Long ago, when few remember, we were Clan, the Clan of the cave bear. The Clan had lived the same way unchanging for many lives, guided in the ways of the totems by the mog-ur.”
A soon as Ood the mog-ur stepped away from the entrance of the stone-house, Đelđuma was revealed. She had taken the red ochre used to mark a redfoot and covered her whole body with it. She wore nothing else. In her hands she carried another bowl of potion.
“But then the Luna came to us and we learned that there was true magic in the world.”
Ood shot a spell out of his wand that flew up into the air and exploded in a flash of light like a firework.
“And the Clanluna told us the secrets of the Great Mother Luna and her gift of Pleasures.”
Androm emerged from the stone-house, naked like Đelđuma, except his body was painted all in an iridescent white.
“And the Luna’s gift of Pleasures brought us much joy,” said Đelđuma, before kissing Androm and handing her bowl to him.
“And we became a joining of Clan and Other, Totem and Goddess,” said Ood before kissing Đelđuma and handing her his bowl.
“Today we spend first night in a new cave, a cave of our own making,” announced Đelđuma.
“As a reminder of our Clan origins, we will have Men’s and Women’s Ceremonies,” announced Ood, before beckoning to the men. Androm then turned and followed Ood into the Stone House, back to the chamber that was under the rock overhang. The men followed.
Đelđuma Shared the potion in the bowl with each of the women and the children. The recipe had changed since the Clan days. Iga had introduced sacred mushrooms to induce visions and Ayla had invented a pair of potion, each taylor made to suit that gender’s Ceremony. The men’s version was designed to induce visions and aid memory. The Women's version was formulated to make children sleep and women lose their inhibitions. Once all the women had put their children to bed, Đelđuma began tapping out a rhythm on the bottom of the bowl in the central chamber of the Stone house. Soon all the women were dancing frenetically in the Central Chamber.
As Zariz sat in a circle with the other men letting Ood guide them back though the memories to the time of their common ancestors of both Clan and Other, It occurred to him that four of the six men, like him were trained as mog-urs. He didn’t need Ood to guide him back through the memories. He could do it himself. . . . Zariz pulled away from the others and took a peek into Ood’s personal memories . . . his very recent ones . . . of Ood and Đelđuma Sharing Pleasures. . . . Seeing this memory, It occurred to Zariz that although they probably both be willing to re-enact this memory if he asked, Ood probably wouldn’t like him prying into this particular memory. . . . Zariz’ memory drifted back to a Charms class . . . Zeen had been discussing memory charms and made a brief mention of Legimancy and Occulomancy, a pair of branches of magic that no one knew how to do, but had existed in Luna’s future world. . . . Zariz was struck be the similarity between looking into someone’s memory who’s mind is linked with yours and looking into someone’s mind without establishing a link first. . . . He’d have to experiment with this first. . . . Shifting into Grević’ memories, Zariz took a peak at Đelđuma’s childhood. . . . He found looking for someone important to make it easier to find the memory. . . .
The next morning, the men emerged from the back chamber to find the women all sprawled naked in the central chamber. The women had apparently had a successful Ceremony. Zariz went into his chamber. Želžum awoke when he entered. His son was hungry. But Zariz didn’t want to wake Đelđuma. He picked up little Želžum and rocked him with one hand while the other used his wand to heat some water for tea. Perhaps that might hold him over until she awoke. He had just finished making the tea when Đelđuma returned to their chamber. She was still covered in Red Ochre. It had stained her skin and would not be coming off soon.
“Why haven’t you started a fire?” asked Đelđuma.
“Good morning to you too,” replied Zariz. “Put your tunic on and maybe you will be a little warmer.”
Zariz flicked his wand as her tunic flew at her. As soon as she’d put it on, he did the same with her leggings.
“I did not start a fire yet because I do not want to smoke up the chamber before I charge up the rune-stones,” said Zariz, as he handed Želžum to his mother. Who let him pull up her tunic so he could nurse.
Zariz then started carving runes in the hearth stones and the ones around the hole at the peak of the domed ceiling. He then began charging the runestones one by one.
“Didn’t you tell me your mother used Pleasures to do the same thing?” asked Đelđuma. “Why don’t we do that?”
“We could.” admitted Zariz. “I have experimented with the technique. But it would take too long. We would have to Share Pleasures separately to charge each runestone.”
“I don’t mind . . .” said Đelđuma, as she gave her mate a sultry smile.
“I though you were cold?” asked Zariz. “How about I save you one and we will charge the last one after you finish feeding him?”
Đelđuma nodded enthusiastically before turning thoughtful. “This gives me an idea! If all the Weez-ur did the same with their hearths and help the other two hearths, then we could use a Mother Festival to Charge the runestones in the Central Chamber!”
“You will find any excuse for a Mother Festival,” laughed Zariz.
After they had finished the last runestone of their hearth, Zariz lit a fire and watched the smoke form a ribbon out the top of the chamber. He then told the other Weez-urs of his mate, the članluna’s plan. Each of the Weez-urs did the same with their own hearth and Ood charged Grević’ hearth with the help of Knežjka. Zariz did the same with Đuča at Androm’s hearth.
That night, Đelđuma and Androm gathered the član together in the central Chamber. After explaining what they were going to do. Androm signaled for the children to start drumming. Đelđuma offered a sip of the Mother Festival tea, then began leading them in the Mother Festival Dance. Once the tea had taken effect, the women picked a partner and left the dance, except instead of going to their chambers, the women took their partners to the central fire circle to charge a runestone. Zariz had already charged the runestones in the ceiling hole and and enough of the fire ones that there was one remaining stone for each Weez-ur to Charge. Zariz was one of the first men picked . . . by Đoroča, Ood’s mate. He noticed that Đelđuma, who as clanluna got to pick last, had been picked by Igača, Ood’s other mate. Even with the tea, Zariz wasn’t certain he could Share Pleasures for a third time today. So he concentrated on Relieving Đorroča’s Need. When he sense it was about to be Relieved, he put his wand on her pleasure button and sent a surge of magic through her and into the runestone. Her scream of Pleasure, had even woman in the room stop for a second to look at him, hungrily. Once she had recovered, Đoroča insisted on resuming until Zariz’ Need was Relieved.
After the Mother Festival Ceremony, Ood lit the central fire and the smoke formed a ribbon to the ceiling hole.
Now that they had settled, There was still enough autumn for more hunting, gathering, fishing and exploring. Đelđuma no longer had her own boat. She planned to make a new one next spring and planned to make it on the lake. In the meantime, she often went fishing with Androm in his boat. Zariz had done a bit of exploring on his broom and found that the lake was fed by a river that went through a canyon to another waterfall and on top of that was yet another lake.
Zariz also practiced trying to look into Đelđuma’s mind. (with her permission)
By winter, it was apparent that Both Đelđuma and Zoub’s mate, Hađiča were Blessed. But when it came time to deliver Hađiča’s baby, she didn’t want Zariz to deliver it. She only wanted Đelđuma to be present. After some argument, Đelđuma relented. But as she helped Hađiča breath and push. A sudden gust of wind blew up the hide that acted as a door to the chamber. Đelđuma ignored it and didn’t call Hađiča’s attention to it when the appropriate potions levitated out of Zariz’s case and into her hand. But this was turning out to be a very difficult birth. Đelđuma had been trained as a članluna with the idea that she might be the only healer for her član. But she was not a Medicine Woman. Zariz, however, was a Medicine Man and knew more about healing than her. Finally, Đelđuma was forced to admit defeat.
“Listen Hađiča, the baby is not coming out,” said Đelđuma. “If I cut you open, I might be able to save the baby, but you’ll die. . . . Or I could give you this potion and the baby will die. You’ll still have to push it out. But you’ll be able to have another one someday.”
“No! Save my baby!” yelled Hađica.
“But you’ll die!” exclaimed Đelđuma.
“I don’t care! Save my baby!” yelled Hađica.
Peverell Clan of the Clanluna list
Grević (27) ½ Clan, Đelić’s son, Leader
---Knežjka (31) – Other, Željka’s daughter
------Krola (10) – ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s daughter,
------Kačunič (7) - ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s Son
------Đujmoviča (4) – ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s daughter,
------ (0) - ¼ Clan, Knežjka’s Son
Ood Ađ (26) – ¼ Clan, (Red-hair, gray eyes) Iga’s son, clanluna, Weez-Ur, mog-ur, N: C,T,D,R
---Igača Hđ (26) – Other, Čović’s Daughter, Ood’s Mate.
------Ijađič (8) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
------Đurič (4) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
------ (1) – 1/8 Clan, Igača’s son, Weez-Ur
---Đoročia (18) – Other, Đihovilo’s daughter, Ood’s 2nd mate
------ (3) – ¼ Clan, Đoročia’s son, Weez-Ur
------ (0) - 1/8 Clan, Đoročia’s son, Weez-Ur
Zariz Ah (17) – ¼ Clan (Clan-brown hair, Sky-blue eyes) son of Mariza, Weez-ur, Medicine Man (Adopted by Thonda), N: C,T,D,R, Cr,H,Div,p
---Đelđuma Đ (17) – Other, Krstulović’s daughter, clanluna, Zariz’ mate
------Želžum, (2) – ¼ Clan, Đelđuma’s son, Weez-ur
Đeeš Ea (22) – ¼ Clan (Clan-brown hair, hazel eyes) Đišič’s son, Weez-Ur
---Žayljača Hđ (22) – Other, Željka’s daughter, Đeeš’ mate
------Đešpotošič (6) – ¼ Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
------ (3) - 1/8 Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
------ (0) - 1/8 Clan, Žayljača’s son, Weez-ur
Zoub A (19) – ½ Clan son of Ebra, (Clan-brown hair, Gray eyes) Weez-ur
---Hađiča Hđ (23) – Other Đelić’s daughter, Zoub’s mate
------Zađ (8) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
------Đomič (5) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
------ (2) – ¼ Clan, son of Hađiča, Weez-ur
Androm A (17) - Iga’s 1/16 Clan son, acolyle
---Đuča Đ (17) – Other, Đeča’s daughter, Androm’s mate.
---Lorka Vđ (21) – daughter of Larnuira, Telton's 2nd widow and Vojkur's 3rd widow, Androm’s 2nd mate
------Vorka Vđ (6) - daughter of Lorka,
------ (3) - daughter of Lorka,
------ (0) - 1/32 Clan, Lorka’s son
------------Various Snorkacks
------------Various Push-me/pull-yous (Wool, Furs, Meat)
---------various Cave bears descended from Hug Giver
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