Mondo 's kinship group


I am Mondo when my story began I was 16 twelvemonth old. My Father of the Church was killed by a cave bear 5 years earlier and my Mother was claimed by Grog .... Grog hates me.

The men are gathering for a hunting, we are traveling to a summertime inner circle and need to have center for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too slow ... .. soon, very soon I will challenge him. He says my big feet make me clumsy.

The men are set to hunt and the point man Tondor calls us to move out. Lateen has spotted a herd of Bison not to far from our camp. We will trail them and set up an ambuscade. Tondor tells Grog and I to actuate ahead on the right hand while lateen and Gorbus does the Sami to the left.

I ease behind a rock with my spear in hand when something startles the herd and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and spirit over my shoulder and see Grog swinging his society at my head. My movement caused the puff to be a bedaze blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious mind and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a utter Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree that had fallen and lay in their way of life and my lifeless consistence rolled under its branches.

I opened my eyes, my head scathe and I could hardly see. I try to suffer but could not. I check and I still had my water skin. I took a drink and poured some over my read/write head. Slowly very slowly I began to come to my senses. Grog tried to pour down me before I could challenged him.

Grog was about 5'tall and weighed about 200 lbs. I on the other bridge player stood at 6'and weighed about the same but where Grog was fat mine was muscle. One day I will contract him down, maybe today when I get back to camp.

I found my spear and using it as a faculty I made my way back to cantonment. Before I made it to the encamp area I realized something was very wrong, no smoke, as I rounded the boulder that marked the entranceway to the box canyon where the camp had been for month. Before me was a barren region no huts no people ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the basis.

The Clan probably thought I was dead, Grog would have told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not make out how foresighted I was out, as weak as I felt it could have got been Clarence Shepard Day Jr.. I knew where there were some berry vines near by and I went to them that at to the lowest degree gave me a bit of nourishment.

After I had eaten my fill of the berry I made my way back to where the stampede had occurred. I followed in the Bison 's wake. I do n't know what I was expecting but … where else was I to go, I had been following for hours when I noticed a carcass. As I drew near I could see a lance sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must have eluded the Clan and died slowly. I took my stony knife and began the process of skinning it. Before I was half done I decided to build a fire to keep predators away. I gathered wood and pulled out my fire Edward Durell Stone struck them together and directed the sparks to the tinder and in present moment I had my fire I fed it larger pieces of woodwind till I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the heart and soul and placed it on a stone near the flaming. Just by accident, a few years ago a hunk of meat was dropped into the coals of our flame. Some clock time later my male parent noticed the tantalizing olfactory property from the cooking essence he raked it out, brushed it off and took a bite. We each tried a patch of the cooked meat and now often cooked our meat. I stood up from placing the essence and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a stream near by so I decided to just stay put right where I was. I made single-foot and hung pieces of heart and soul to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison skin and began to scrape the fell and tan it.
I stayed there for a week and ate my fill and although I heard predators almost every night my flaming seemed to go along them at bay. I found some humble trees with straight trunks about an inch to an inch and a one-half in diam. I cut two about eight feet long then I cut belittled ones to take a shit a facing pages of about three pes. These I tied to the recollective poles to make a travois. I cut a lot of thin comic strip from the Bison skin for this and more than to tie the skin and and the meat to the travois.



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Grog set looking into the campfire thinking about how his programme to get rid of Mondo had worked so well, he laughed to himself. It was even punter than he had planed, Mondo had fell right in front of the stampede. He laughs to himself nix left of Mondo.

Tondor regretted the red of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the unspoilt hunter in the Clan. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him fall in presence of the stampede so there was not much common sense in too long of a search.

They had traveled many days to their summer Camp only to discover that there had been a forest fire during the winter and the area was nada but ashes. Tondor decided to turn north east in search of new land.

Mondo 's female parent was sure that Grog was at mistake for her sons death but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would beat her and leave her behind. So she kept her mentation to herself.
lateen 's daughter Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only xi she had a crush on Mondo. Mondo was the tallest, strong and most big and Sonda knew that one day he would foot her ... She just had to grow a lilliputian bit ... well since her chest was flavourless and she was as skinny as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the pole to his articulatio humeri and began his search for the tribe. It was at least a Moon to the summer clique. He had made a sling from a span of string cut from the bison skin and kept the sling in his hand as he walked. By the time he stopped for the day he had three lapin and a Wisconsinite. He had gutted them while walking then when he stopped he finished skinning them. Mondo was bent over scrapping the badger hide when he heard a holloa ... He grabbed his fishgig and turned, he barley had time to set himself as a saber-tooth Tiger launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his knees and steadied his gig. The Panthera tigris hit the spear and force the fizgig into its chest the personnel of the impact carried the Panthera tigris over and past Mondo ripping the spear out of his hands. Mondo grabbed for his Flint River knife and leaped on to the tigers back and with the razor tart flint knife attacked the throat of the Panthera tigris. The force of the Panthera tigris landing place broke the spear in one-half. The blade of the gig pierced the heart of the beast as it slung Mondo off its spinal column. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's feet … numb. Mondo had closed his eyes because he knew he was idle ... nothing happened …. he opened his eyes to see the tiger at his feet, then he shook.

He had no clock time to fall apart. He gathered Grant Wood and establish a bombastic fire. He began skinning the Tiger noting the fact that it was a distaff and looked like it may have been nursing. Mondo staked out the tiger skin out to induce scraping easier. Then he drug the carcase away from camp. Returning to the camp he found three kittens eating his hare that he had planned on having himself. Well he thought that answers the interrogative sentence about if the tiger had kits or not.. Mondo picked up the lapin and cleave them on sticks over the fire. He cut the Wisconsinite into small pieces and fed it to the kits. They ate their fill then curled up next to Mondo and went to sleep.

The future dawning Mondo went back to the tigers carcass ... it was almost clean null but ivory left. He looked around and found the head and removed the Saber- tooth. Being about six column inch long they would be good for stabbing. He headed back to camp the kit were playing and nipping at the badger bones. He staked out the tiger skin and went to sour on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the poles and started off it had been three mean solar day preparing the tiger skin, the kits played around his understructure. They would take a few whole tone and look back and mew. Then run to catch up then repetition, they were not sure as shooting what to do for Mondo kept on walking. This went on for over an hour then the kits started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a mournful cry and an answering growl .... a brush wolf looking for an easy meal. Why ? Mondo does not bang but he dropped the pole grabbed the half fishgig and attacked the brush wolf. Being a coward the brush wolf ran away … well just out of reach ... Mondo scratched his chief wondering why he did some of the things he did. He walked back to the tired and scared outfit and picked up one turned it over … it was a Male he said"You are Bruno of Toul ”. The next had tabby cat banding and was female for some reason it reminded him of Lateen 's daughter,"You are Sondi."The stopping point one was minuscule but male Mondo laughed at the struggles and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the immune carrier and placed them on the skins. They settled down to catch some Z's.

As the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. passed the kits would get down from the carrier run and play till they tired then they would climb back up and go to catch some Z's. Mondo began to acknowledge a slight pall in the air he began to worry that there might be a of late C storm coming. He started searching for a place to hold up and wait it out. With the aid of his sling he had plenty of core to lastly so that was no worry but he did need to find a straight rod to make into a fishgig. Another minute of walking and he noticed a stand of trees that had a few saplings the perfect distance for his spear ... if he could incur the right Harlan Stone maybe he could crisp out three or four spear capitulum. He began to look for good Flint and collected a few and cut down a few saplings.

As Mondo set down to began shaping the spear heads he heard a screaming, He took his one-half shaft and moved off in the direction of the screeching. He was walking in a dry stream bed, as he walked he would pick up rocks to use with his sling if needed. He could tell he was getting close by the grunting just ahead of him. As he rounded a bend he saw something he had only heard about. Before him was what his dad had called lomen their bodies were twisted as was their faces they were feeder of men. The lomen were spacious in the dead body and strong and there were three of them. One of them was eating on the leg bone of a man they had ripped apart. The other two were trying to tear something from under the bramble George Herbert Walker Bush next to the rock and roll. From the screams I could state it was a female and that the spikelet was all that was between her and these giant. I loaded my triangular bandage and let fly hitting the eater in the temple ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the other turned toward me I let fly the careen catching him in the fore pass. Before I could recharge the shoemaker's last one had turned and charged me.

Before he could get through me three tawny dynamos went streaking past one grabbed an articulatio talocruralis, one grabbed the most private division causing him to raise his mind which gave Bruno the chance he needed and latched on to his pharynx. As the ogre went down I planted my half spear in to his breast and pressed it into his heart. I called the Kits off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their Milk tooth had been replaced by the beginning of their ivory, I chuckled that lomen probably was very surprised when those clamped on his privates.

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I looked around and saw Runt on his belly crawling under the brambles. I heard another scream and I said do n't hurt my kitten he just wants to diddle and you are safe now the lomen are dead.
"Who are you ?"
"I am Mondo a lone hunter lost from my Clan."“ I am going to cut the Brambles back"I took my knife and cleared an initiative through the brambles. I was surprised to find there was a cave behind the brambles. The curtain raising was about four foot across and tall but once in side of meat the cave it was at least eight foot tall. As I entered the 1st thing I saw was an eight yr old playing with runt beside her was her mother and three former cleaning woman and two boys about ten. The man who had been ripped apart was the only adult male with them. They were looking at me with fear, I glanced to either slope and realized that Bruno and Sondi were escorting me. I will be properly back I will get rid of the bodies and get my gear and then I will repay. I drug the soundbox a well fashion away so predator would not fare close to the cave. I checked them for weapons but all they had was clubhouse, which I had no use for.

I drug my travois inside the cave and made numerous head trip back outside to bring in firewood. Then I drug the Brambles back to cover the entrance.
Then I looked at the people still standing in the same place that I had left them.."Please at least sit down, I am not here to pain you if you wish to result I will not stop you. Do what you wish."

I decided to give them alone and light a fervency. I unloaded the travois and spread the the furs the kitty crawled right on the furs and Lil the eight year old who had been playing with Runt followed him onto the furs. One by one they began to sit on the pelt and the boys asked if it was alright to pet the kitty. Sondi answered by rubbing on their legs, Bruno was not far behind. I continued getting the fervor started and started some rabbits to roasting. I am Mondo I will finish telling my story. I noticed that some of the Mary Jane drifted down the roof line of the cave then disappeared. I lit a length of woodwind and and used it as a torch. I walked farther in to the spelunk the two boys and Sondi and St. Bruno followed. About fifty metrical unit inward we found a stream that ran along the right wall. The cats smelled the H2O and took a drink. I dipped my hand in, the weewee was frigidity and unfermented. We walked on for about a hundred ft the cave made a turn to the leftfield and opened up to a immense way with a pool almost 20 to thirty metrical unit across. There was some kind of Moss on the cave rampart that gave off twinkle. I no longer involve the torch so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the room and could see an opening ahead of me. When I reached the opening I was shocked to see a beautiful valley. A river flowed from out of the ground at the base of the plenty. Wild game was abundant, berries were discernible as well as herbs and spice all were in mickle. Mondo turned to the boy,"Bring me the blowlamp and I will relight it then I want you to go bring every one here."I continued to gaze at the Valley trying to judge its size the good supposition was it was at least 10 miles long and 5 all-encompassing but would jazz expert when I had a prospect to explore.

While the son were gone I walked out into the valley and looked around. I felt like I was dwelling, the cave had shelter and fresh water and the vale had all the food we could eat. I was standing in front of the cave with my arms lifted up towards the sky as the others stepped out of the cave. Lil and her mother Ludi were first out of the cave they walked up to me and asked where are we. Ludi says When we left the other end it was snowing but..but.. here the sun is shining and it is warm. Everyone gathered around all were amazed at what they saw. One of the women, Pori, made the comment we could subsist here and no one would know.."Moli and Star the former two adult female spoke together"we need to go get our things."I knew then I had been accepted for, our things they refer too was the items I had unloaded from my travois. But they were mightily we needed the affair moved to this end .We all went back together.

The first night we slept on the furs it was close sleeping, in the middle of the dark I awoke with an arm draped across my consistency stroking my chest and stomach.. I started to sour over when a voice said shhhh. I lay there enjoying the feeling and not knowing who was doing the rubbing. That Nox I had pleasant dreaming. And when I awoke the next morning the ma'am were out gathering herbaceous plant Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a medical specialty cleaning woman apprentice, And Lil 's mother.
The early ladies, Pori seventeen, Moli nineteen and Star twenty five were not related to the boys, Drago and Malo were Twin but not identical, .they did not know what had happened to their parents.

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The unit chemical group had been tied together after being captured by the lomen. They had been walking for hours when the drawing card of the lomen called a halt. He pointed to three of his group and public speaking in a language they did not empathise. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to watch them. Their sentry duty pushed them down near a large downed tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a jam under the tree which led to the dry stream bed and eventually to the cave. Lil found the hole. She told her female parent and Ludi whispered to the others. Then they waited. Later into the night the lomen began to drowse when she felt it safe she lowered Lil into the hole and one at a time they all slipped away. The man was the last and he slipped and fell making enough noise to awaken the lomen. They ran as fast as they could then Ludi saw the brambles and every one tried to drop off under them when the lomen grabbed the man and literally ripped him apart. One of the other lomen was reaching under the brambles and had grabbed on to Star .... That is when Mondo arrived and took out the lomen. Mondo took charge and Ludi was glad to let him besides she was physically attracted to him. Mondo had checked each one of them to realise sure no one was injured. And they all stood there in veneration not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his spears he stripped the barque from the saplings. And stood the haft near the fire to get down the drying out and hardening of the irradiation. He took the stones and began working on the brand for the spearheads. Drago and Malo sat close watching his every motility. Mondo looked around and spotted the kitty following the char and playing. The women seemed to take the presence of the Saber-tooth CAT as raw. After making four fizgig blades and rotating the prick Mondo decided it was time to look over the valley. He gather a few John Rock and his scarf bandage and motioned to the boy, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a diminished herd of bison, many coney, a variety of doll and laughingstock and sheep and many other fauna. They all seemed to be food fauna other than small carnivores there did not seem to be any large predators. There was no evidence of Tigers, bears or brute. The most dangerous animate being he saw was bovine. One breed had automobile horn about six feet in length. The deer population was abundant and they counted the points on a declamatory stag as three manpower plus two fingers. I thought about what I had done … into this peaceful valley I had introduced three top of the transmission line predatory animal. They may be young now but … one day. I guess I would ingest to train them. And let them hunt in the forest from the bramble bush entrance. I decided my estimate of the size of the Valley was close very close but probably the valley was a bit larger. In the distance Mondo could see a benighted area which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another exit. One day he vowed to walk all of the valley ... Then he would know.

When he and the son returned the camp seemed to be empty ... Mondo was worried, with spear at the ready he entered cantonment. Then he heard laughter from inside the cave. He and the boy entered the cave and was met with the quite a little of Star completely nude and the others all waist deep in the pool ... also nude. They saw him and the boys and waved to them, derive in ejaculate in there is a hot spring in the pool. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too late they had already dropped their clothes and were running for the body of water. Mondo shed his own skins to the oohs and aahs of the grownup cleaning lady. Mondo did n't take to do anything just walk into the syndicate. The woman met him and began to wash him even Lil tried to facilitate but the women said no.

The slings kept us in nutrient and skins for dress. There was a plant that had blade that looked like blade, the thorn on the end of the sword could be broken off and a tenuous ribbon like while about two feet long could be pulled out of the blade, this made for a perfect phonograph needle and thread. The sticker would regenerate after about two weeks so the needle and thread was constantly replaced as long as the sword was not cut. I taught all how to use the slingshot and they all seemed to be naturals. It was a pleasant life though I wished for more men to go after bigger game and … I missed my mother.


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Mondo 's mother, Sharlu, did not get it on how much to a greater extent she could read. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to look for affair to get angry about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to cut it but he to had been casting his heart at the comeliness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to claim a new wife, but by the laws of the kin group Grog had acted first and Sharlu was his. If Tondar ever actually saw Grog beating Sharlu .... He would Challenge Grog. But now was not the meter. A sickness had swept through the clan, Tobar the medication Man worked with them all until he too became disgusted Before it was over they had lost six shaver, five men including Tobar and eight women. The tribe was really hurting there was only XI men, five cleaning woman and ten youngster. Of the ten small fry only three were over twelve and only one was male. Some of the men were still very weak only three hunters were available to fertilise the clan. No Tondar thinks, today is not a proficient day to take exception. Grog is needed.

Grog was never touched by sickness and he took this as a polarity that he was destined to be head of the kindred. He would observe Tondar and he would plan.

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Today Star asked to go on the Richard Morris Hunt with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three naut mi from the pack when headliner dropped to her Knees and put her head to the ground and pulled her wearable to the side baring her delightful target. As she wiggled her butt she tells Mondo she wants a baby. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to go into her. After the fourth part leave out Star reached between her legs, took him in handwriting and guided him into her velvet glove. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went wild bouncing Star all over the primer. Then he felt a strange sentience and he grabbed her hip and shoved himself all the way into virtuoso, His firing was like an plosion and as the feeling receded. Mondo collapsed at Stars feet, the residual of the morning was spent the like way. They finished their search and principal told him the former cleaning woman were waiting their turn. They had decided that their kin needed more people. Mondo walked around the rest of the day with a big grin on his font just thinking … he would get to do this to the other women too.

As they arrived back at camp everyone knew that maven had been successful and every meter the other woman would take the air past Mondo they would twitch their tail at him. Even Lil as young as she was got in on the tail end twitching. Two month later all the cleaning lady were pregnant and Lil was asking her female parent why she could n't be pregnant too.

Mondo was training the Cats and as they became larger he began taking them out into the forest past the Bramble gate. The Cats had made a practiced kill and I was dragging my travois with the kernel and pelt down the gully when Bruno came to a diaphragm and I could here a grumble in Sondi 's throat. half-pint was crouched in his approach modal value. I made a downward push with my custody, I had trained them that this meant to crouch down and wait. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a line of captives .My Cats hated lomen. I counted the captive, two men, six women and five children under XII, two son and three girls. We followed knowing they would block for a rest soon. When they stopped we waited public treasury two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my catapult and bounced a rock off the guard duty synagogue killing him instantly. The sentry duty falling awakened the former two lomen they began to rise but stopped when they felt the paw on their dresser. Bruno and Sondi made one slash and opened the throats of the two. Runt not to be out done ripped out the pharynx of the one I had killed.


I released one of the captives and instructed her to release the others while I got rid of the lomen.

I looked around at the captives and told them not to care about the Cats, they are moderate. I told them to follow us to paradise. I picked up my Travois and led them to the bramble gate. When we stepped out at the other end they were speechless. They blended in with the rest of our fast growing Clan. Even though two of the women were wife 's of the two men Mondo was informed it was his job to get them pregnant the first time. Because I was strong and brave and this they wanted their first born to be also. They meant first born of their new Clan because one of the youngster, a short girl named Rena was the daughter of the wife of one of the men. Rena was LE than a year old.


As months passed and the women all became pregnant I decided that Shad and Gurk the two men I had freed were open of feeding the clan for awhile. I decided to ready another search for my Mother and Tondor 's Clan. I carried my Travois and 3 spears and Bruno and Sondi. Runt I left with Ludi to help protect the clan. I took no intellectual nourishment except for one meal and two pee hide. As I departed the bramble logic gate I covered it with fresh brambles and scouted the surface area to make sure as shooting no lomen had been around.
Game seemed to be plentiful and I decided to just use my sling I felt there was no reason to kill any with child game on the way out. No sentience of packing pelts both directions. I sent Sondi to scout ahead and Bruno to throw slam around us. By nighttime fall we had had no problems and I had killed enough pocket-size game to feed myself and the Cats. I built up a fervour and snuggled between the Cats and drifted off to sleep.

The next dawn we continued our trek ... the Cats seemed to be uneasy and I noticed the quietness around us ... There is something wrong ... now I need to find out what.
I tried to get the Arabian tea to reconnoitre but all they would do was growl deep in their chest. I got my shaft prepare and watch my big cat, I knew they would warn me of impending danger.

The Hackles on Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six feet from me also facing toward the instruction that Bruno was facing. I picked up one of my shaft and backed between two boulders that were about eighteen inches apart. I still have no melodic theme what I am about to face. Then Bruno roars and is answered by a roar that chills even the beneficial hunter .... a undermine Bear it roared out of the bushes on all quadruplet. When it saw St. Bruno it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least fifteen foot tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Bruno attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all foursome and charged toward me. I set myself with my spear, just before the bear reached me a tawny missile struck the bear behind it 's left front leg. Sondi held on. Then Saint Bruno struck from the rear. The bear reared up again, as its head was raising up I struck with my spear up straightaway for the throat. The first spear did not penetrate very far but it seemed to con mix the bear. He swung his mighty paw but he hit the Boulder instead of me. The Cats were ravishing the bears hind quarter then leaping aside when the bear tried to snipe them. I unknowingly had reached in to my bash and pulled out the saber tooth tusk. Sondi takes another chunk out of the bears breast leg, the bear turns its head to the side, I see my chance and I pounce. With all my might I jam the saber tooth in to the ear epithelial duct of the bear which penetrates the mastermind. Not realizing it is dead the brook swing music back at me ... I back off, the conduct roars and spill dead at my metrical foot.
I check my CT both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no bleeding is unmistakable. I skin the bear. I took the skin and a little of the meat. I really hated to will all that meat but marauder and scavenger would be all over us. We traveled on trough we came to a stream and there we camped till I finished with the shako. This took almost a week after that I would work with it after my twenty-four hours travel.



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The women at the cave began to have birth ace was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All boys except genius her daughter was called Little wizard. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the Medicine Woman she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure that by the time Mondo came home all the sister will be born even fiddling Yo'te the last to get pregnant. The men and boys kept the camp supplied with meat. Every day one of the boys and Runt would go to the bramble logic gate and watch. The two men pulled their own free weight Shad was a gig Almighty and Grug was a ceramist he made pots and bowls for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to miss Mondo his strength and leaders was missed.

Tondar is worried only 3 hunting watch left, Himself, Grog and Hobar each has been training one of the children. Tondar is training lateen's Daughter Sonda who is already undecomposed with a sling. Hobar has the other 12 y.o. little girl Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very hard to feed everyone. With as many that are still imperfect and nauseous they were ineffective to be active to overwinter grounds. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air release of a near dormant volcano. Heat still permeated the cave arena from hot gasses so they only needed fire if they wished to cook. Each hunter pair went out alone only prison term the completely chemical group would go out on a hunt was if heavy game was spotted. At that time the women who were strong enough would make Travois to assist skinning and hauling of the nitty-gritty if a kill was made. Sadly this was rare..



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XV Day later Mondo arrived at the clan Summer summer camp he was disheartened to see the barren burned out area. He searched around but could not severalise if the kin group had been here when the fervency occurred or if the fervency was older. He stayed there another 10 days making reconnoiter dress circle in all directions. All he could really order was the Cats were uneasy in this burned out surface area. Two days ago the cats had brought down a deer. Mondo cut it up and fed them big chunks of the meat and worked on the hide. He decided that in the morn he would manoeuvre back. He had to admit he missed his new clan.

The next morning after a speedy look around he began his trek homeward. Bruno began his lookout and Sondi took decimal point Mondo could tell apart they were happy to be leaving this post. day turned into calendar week it had been an sluttish trip except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the hombre in the President Bush and told them to be silent and they watched the lomen searching for new prisoner. Their odor was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to rest less than 20 pace away. The Cats did n't like it either but I was capable to keep them quiet. Then they decided to need a nap, That was more than I or the cat-o'-nine-tails could engage. I turned them on the loose, in seconds there was two LE lomen in these woods. It was a thing of beauty to watch them work on now that they had nearly reached their wide growth. Bruno of Toul was about five invertebrate foot at the front line shoulder and about four ft at the hind quarters. Sondi was just in small not that it mattered and runt at the cave was a replete animal foot pocket-size but I think peewee was faster than his brother and sister.

I could see the dry wash ahead once I entered it I would be close to a mile from Bramble Gate. Now secretiveness was really needed the path above the dry dry wash was made by the lomen as they carry their captive to their rest home field ... Where ever that is. But today it was unclouded. We made it to Bramble gate as we neared the brambles began to move and out came Drago and half-pint. I motioned them back inside and the Cats and I followed. All I could cogitate about for the yesteryear hour was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping things, by the fourth dimension I was at the saltation I was nude and walked out into the consortium and sank down and closed my eyes. After a few sigh I opened my eyes and was met by ten cleaning lady all carrying a baby. My backtalk dropped open and I asked"Where did all the child come from ?"The only result I got was smiles. I was Home.

I stood on the coin bank of our river I looked across at the stately Tree on the other side. It has been 4 years since we had found our valley. We had learned how to smoke our meat, there was an indentation in the paries of the spelunk passage near elbow room sized. It was near the smoke kettle of fish, we had left some center on drying racks in this room and the fastball from our cook fire passed over it. When we tried this meat we were surprised by the predilection. We tried raw nitty-gritty on the rack and the resolution were great. We were able to take a crap fewer large kills and no meat was wasted. Yes this was truly a wonderful valley.
I walked into the River at this point the water just reached my knees. Along the far bank building the women were gathering Berry in to pots Gurk had made. I noticed a river otter playing with the children, Malo had found it when it was a pup and raised it. We were as one with the animals. Shad and Gruk and the son and I did nigh of our major hunt out the bramble gate. That way we had the help of the Cats, they were still not used in the valley. The merely meter we hunted inside the vale was when it was winter at the bramble gate. Soon not even then.


Malo and Drago had herded 5 of the bovine creatures into a box canon and had taken thicket and blocked off their escape. Later we had cut poles and using a mark method at the box and ends of the perch we had built a fencing with a gate. There were three female and 2 Male there was plenty of nutrient for them and a branch off the river made water useable. It was n't till breeding clock time that we found there was a trouble with the mix.

The two males fought for the right to breed. We watched the fight the larger bull had trumpet 18"long on either incline of his head. The low only had one horn the former had been broken off some clock time earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't take hanker before the smaller bull was too injured to retain the competitiveness. With ropes we had made by weaving strip of skins we managed to get the rope around the bull 's neck we managed to get him out of the gate. We sent the boys to get the cleaning woman and the Travois and killed the bull and began butchering.

Over the years our herd has grown by born birth and capturing other female and adding them to our herd. Our Clan was also growing the Sami way. near of the female seemed to welcome our presence. Which meant we only had to Isolate the fuzz to be capable to bring with the kine. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few drops of milk was on one of her teats. He reached down gently so as not to galvanize the cow and stroked the nipple. To his surprise a watercourse of milk shot out. He had Malo bring him a pot. He directed the Milk into the pot filling it to the top. He lifted the pot to his sassing and sipped, his center flew spread out and he took an even bigger drink then handed the pot to Malo who also took a drink. The milk was very fertile and creamy and tasted delicious.

vertebral column at the Camp Ludi was working on her own experiment. She had begun to deal germ pods from industrial plant they had eaten and herbs for medicine and had put them in the earth and watered them and they began to grow. Mondo had watched the cognitive process and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the nestling collect the seed pod from the dope. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat Gunter Grass. Mondo explained he was afraid that the cows would eat all of the grass in the canon. This way they could scatter the come all over the canon and maybe it would grow and help give the cows.
Mondo heard his named being called, he turned, and there was Malo with Gurk holding out a pot saying"drink, drink."Mondo took the pot and tasted and with a looking of surprisal handed the pot to Ludi. After one mouthful Ludi was all interrogative sentence ... What is it, where did you get it, can you get to a greater extent ? Gurk explained what had happened and that the cow seemed to need the milk removed as if it was too full. Malo suggested we try to give some to Lorn 's baby since Lorn had dried up and had no Milk River for her sister. Mondo hollered at Drago to get Lorn and her Baby.

When Lorn arrived with her baby, Ludi stuck her fingerbreadth in the milk and dribbled some over the baby 's mouth. The baby began reaching and its mouthpiece began suckling movement. Lorn immediately stuck her finger and copied Ludi 's movement.

Earlier Mondo had thought that this valley had no winter. It Did, but not serious and it only lasted about a month. When it snowed the substance of the valley would be deep with the snow maybe a invertebrate foot deep. The eternal sleep of the vale would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble Gate the snow would be in drifts up to 6 substructure mystifying. The Clan had many discourse about this ... They concluded that the valley was formed between Mountains and the slew had closed in at the top limiting the measure of Snow that reached the ground before melting.





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Lateen 's Story


When the unwellness hit the kinship group I was one of the last-place to take in it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to have passed there were only 3 men left to hunt and 8 still to weak to do very much we had our minds set on our recovery but the pyrexia kept popping back up and more men and cleaning woman had died. The Clan was near decimated, 5 men. 4 women and 6 shaver was all that were left. Tondar was fighting to keep back the kin group going but every decision he made Grog questioned which caused agitation in the clan. After almost 4 year I finally had my durability back, Jonda, Tondar 's brother never recovered his fully strength and could not be allowed to go on a Holman Hunt alone. By now the young I that had been trained by the Orion now ranked as full Hunters. food for thought was getting short, It was decided after much disputation by Grog that each of us would reconnoitre for big game and Jonda would watch the camp.

I headed in a general direction of Southwest we had agreed we would reconnoiter for three 24-hour interval and on the fourth we would fall and account. On the 3rd day I had reached our old summertime camp, the fire burnt ground had given way to new growth. I searched the expanse and found old fundament print but nothing new. I decided I had gone far plenty and would get a good Nox eternal rest and get going back early. I had killed a rabbit with my scarf bandage and I cleaned it and put it on a stick over the flak. While it cooked I thought about the problem with the kindred. They did not exploit as a folk unit of measurement. Grog seemed to require to take on over the leadership not realizing no one would fall out him. Tondar realized this but with so few Orion he could not foretell grog out. What to do ? What to do ? I guess ... .what was that noise I began to turn and suddenly every matter went black. …. unhunh where am I what happened ? I barely opened my eyes. I was being carried ... my hired man and base were tied to a bamboo pole ... and I was being carried by .... Oh No ! lomen ! The one carrying my feet saw that I was awake. He spoke in guttural speech sound and they stopped and lowered me to the priming coat. With a few swipes with a flint knife my ft were freed then my hands. After the bamboo pole was removed I was moved forward to another bamboo pole that had 3 men and a charwoman already had their hands and neck tied to that pole. I joined them. For days and hebdomad we were marched through the forest.

We were given fruit and berries to eat and a H2O skin twice a day. At Nox we would babble out quietly. I learned that the lomen had raided their village and there were others than the three watching us. Tomorrow they will wait for the former group to enamour up. They are aflutter about this area we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the wolf who walks with World Tamil Movement. What is that I ask. They said they did n't have intercourse they could only translate about half of what the lomen say.
The woman was the one who knew the almost of their nomenclature. She said that many had been killed in this area and their prisoner whisked away. They would feel their admirer drug way into the forest and their throats would be torn out. to the highest degree were not found before the magpie got to them and then they were a mess. But what of the beast I asked. And she said they do n't know no one has ever seen it ... just once a footprint was found and it was huge.

I thought about the beast and all the prisoner that had disappeared. The bounteous foot I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been all in for over 5 twelvemonth. But Mondo ... that is how he got his name ; at birth his human foot were bigger than a two year old. Mondo means Huge ... naugh it could n't be. But … what if ....



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Shad came to Mondo,"We are running short of smoke-dried meat, we need to hunt."Mondo laughed and the Cats need some utilisation too.
Drago and Malo asked to go, I said who is going to aid gurk. Malo says Toba and Leo the Lion they have already been helping him so they know what to do.
Mondo decided to lease all three CT runt needed to sample a killing ... it had been awhile. They left early the next break of day through the Bramble Gate. They had been following the dry laundry for only a geographical mile when Bruno stopped and looked over his berm at Mondo and rumbled deep in his throat. Sondi and Runt slipped in amongst the radical. I put my hand on them and could palpate them trembling. This told me it was not game ahead. I motioned everybody down and waited. Then I heard representative and crashing through the bushes ... .lomen ... they always traveled on the top alongside the wash. I always traveled the bottom of the wash. The top of the washables had Vannevar Bush that blocked off the aspect of the actual Wash. We waited and let them legislate. I tell my champion I heard human vocalization as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would stop ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the same fix, a clearing that I had rescued the first of my kinship group. We waited for them to ensconce down. I had Drago climb up the hole near the downed tree diagram. As soon as we attacked he would set out cutting the people loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a noise and turns around and shrimp charges and bites down on his privates ... I do n't know whats with that cat. The Guard screams and Shad drives his spear into the guards pharynx. The other two lomen scream"The wolf"and instead of turning to press they turned in fearfulness. If it had not been for Sondi and Bruno we would have not been able to catch them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a pungency out of the upper right thigh which cause the lomen to crash to the terra firma with Malo rightfield behind, he drove his spear all the way through the backbone and into his heart. Bruno took down the third one by himself. He leaped high catching the lomen in the gist of the back as the lomen hit the ground Bruno drove his tusk into the back of the lomen 's neck. The neck snapped instantly all I had to do was smile. As usual we drug the bodies out into the Dubyuh away from the trail. When Shad and I got back the prisoners were unblock, I heard a gasp and a voice saying it is you. I looked over and was surprised to see lateen, I grabbed him and gave him a big hug.
The cleaning lady looked at me then at my feet and said,"You are the Beast"then she drew back
as the computed tomography entered and went to my side.
lateen sail told me his story from the fourth dimension the tribe left thinking I was dead, all the way money box now. Then the other people told me of their seizure and that there twelve More captives on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble logic gate and inside. I told them we would rescue the rest of their kindred then they would have a choice. To either go back to their hound grounds or to join our clan.

The next morning the next grouping of captives arrived there were 6 of them and 4 guards. Mondo could sense the uneasiness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to find the first group waiting for them. I sent Bruno off to the right and instructed him to roar. When he did the lomen panicked. This was what Mondo was expecting, as t he lomen tried to runaway Sondi and Runt charge them from behind. Shad and Drago arose in straw man of them with spears at the prepare. They thrust forward with their spears, Drago 's spear striking only the club the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his golf club preparing to chance upon at Drago when Mondo and Saint Bruno arrived. Never slowing down Giordano Bruno hit the loman in the chest knocking him down and Mondo landed on the loman 's midsection as he sliced at the lomans throat with his tongue. It was over as fast as it started, they walked back to the captives all free now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the group 2 womanhood three stripling, a boy and 2 lady friend, and one man. Mondo sent the boys and Runt with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them instructions to rest in the washing near the kettle of fish under the fallen tree and to hold Runt back till he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the survive group arrived, they too seemed come to that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either side of the track where it left the clarification. Bruno was in the bushes behind them. Sondi had been following the lomen, the exits to the clearing were blocked off. One of the lomen backed up near the hole where the boys were waiting, he was looking all around the glade he was uncomfortable. He could smell pedigree, the other four guard duty were also restless. As the sentry go heel came down on the sharpness of the hole … a hiss whistled, a lion roared and the sentry duty disappeared down the cakehole. The son had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard into the hole. Before he could recover Runt had removed his throat then leaped into the clearing and was now facing the other four Guards. Mondo and Shad leaped out of their tree driving their spears into the thorax of two of the sentry duty. The finis two had no luck at all. They turned to run back and came cheek to aspect with Sondi and Runt as they stopped Giordano Bruno hit them from the butt. Drago and Malo were cutting the captive innocent. This cluster consisted of 3 female 2males a tyke about 10 and a baby in the arms of one of the womanhood. All together we had rescued 17, 16 from one settlement and lateen sail from Mondo 's dwelling house kin.

After they had all the hoi polloi in to the cave Mondo and his huntsman really needed to hunt and set out at once. Ludi took the freshman in hand and talked to them. By the time the hunters had returned with their kills it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the adult female and the sister had decided to go back to their Village. The woman with the infant was just too weak to crap the slip and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, Lateen, St. Bruno and Sondi would guide them back then they would carry on on to Tondors Tribe.

Mondo 's Clan furnished all the men with spears including the teenage boy this made them a strength to be reckoned with. 9 fishgig men and 2 Big Cats. I think they would relish meeting up with some lomen. The women were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 supernumerary spears on it. Three day into their trek they got their bid. Thanks to the true cat they were ready, the women and tike gathered in the inwardness the men squatted around them with their spears angled out to protect the women.


The lomen charged out of the bushes screaming and waving their clubs. Mondo and Lateen stood and began throwing their lance with the womanhood handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the cat attacked from behind. The cats forced the lomen onto the anchored fishgig and the Villagers stabbed with malevolency. They were angry and wanted revenge. By the meter it was all over there were 11 suddenly lomen and four wounded. No one planned to need prisoners, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with broken bones and one dead. It was obvious that the fair sex were proud of their men. One of the injured had a unkept shoulder. The loman got through and caught him with its club. One of the women picked up a spear and stabbed the loman multiple times. The other cleaning woman jumped in and it was a battle royal after that.

Three week later we entered their village. Each travois was loaded with kernel and pelt, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the village chief and the medicine man. After they conquered their reverence of the Cats we were welcomed with open arms. The people we had returned to their hamlet equaled over a third of the Village population and were wife 's and daughters and fathers and sons. They were very of import to the Village. They threw us a feast that Night and we departed early the next break of the day.

Lateen assured Mondo that they only had two more solar day till they reached the Cave of Tondars kin group. He also told him about the discontentedness Grog had caused. Lateen said he was indisputable that Grog had beaten Mondo's mother but could not prove it.. Mondo informed him he needed no validation ... Grog had tried to kill him and that was enough he was going to phone him out..



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Lateen informed Mondo the cave was just over the rise. Mondo stepped out a fiddling faster. A big Cat to either side and the Sun behind him Mondo looked like a Golden heavyweight. The people of the Clan raised their men to shade their eyes trying to key the paradigm before them. Lateen picked this time to step into the view. He hollered,"Hello the inner circle"…. Tondar yelled it is Lateen. Sonda began to run to run into her Dad but seeing one of the Big Cats tone forward caused her to stop. Grog walked out of the cave … Silence fell over the clique as Mondo 's voice bellowed out ..."Grog ... you tried to kill Me ... For that I Call you OUT !"

Mondo did not hesitate he walked straight to Grog and one Brobdingnagian fist crashed into Grogs face. The blow knocked grog to the reason. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to stop the carnage, Bruno and Sondi were walking a rope around the combatants. Grog tried to snap up a lance to use against Mondo. But an enraged Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to dumbfound his antagonist to a pulp. Mondo slowly began to turn back the beating and backed off looking at the fat glob of jelly at his animal foot. Mondo turned and looked at Tondar By my rescript and the constabulary of the Clan ... I claim all Grogs will power an ban him from the kinship group. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your female parent ?"
"My Mother is a liberal Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my fellow, do you agree ?"since she had been declared a free clanswoman it was her pick. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a new woman and a kin hunter put her arms around Mondo,"I have waited for you and I claim you as a Hunter 's right."Mondo returned her hug and made a bm with his fingers. When Sonda turned she found herself facing one of the Big Cats,"Sonda sports meeting Sondi. We accept you."

lateen began unloading the travois and putting centre on to falsify. Every one just walked around Grog until Mondo grabbed his pes and drug him outside the camp and dumped him there. As he walked into cantonment lateen was telling everyone of Momd 's kinship group and that there was no want to travel camp twice a twelvemonth and there was a medicine woman and a secure life.

So began the trek to the Bramble Gate.



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Tondar spoke with Socar who had been Grog 's Hunter trainee. He asked him how he felt about the banishment of Grog ... Socar says the sole thing he hate about it is he did not get to do the whacking himself. When they would go on a Leigh Hunt, Grog would minimize him and hit him when he did not do as Grog said. Grog was a mean man. I now wish to hear from Mondo.

As meter went by on the track the hunters hunted at their leisure time. The nearer they came to their new home plate the more excited they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could remove the Brambles Gate there was an outpouring of nipper and runt. They gathered the other child and drug them inside to show them everything. Mondo began doing the Same with the grownup. When they reached the other end of the cave they all stood silently staring at the beautiful valley. Our huts were beginning to take the shape of permanent social organisation. There was no demand for temporary shelters anymore.

Tondar wanted to know everything about the cattle, the meat smoking, and especially about the Milk River. They sat around a campfire and talked way into the night. One of the topic they discussed was leadership of the clan. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's clan but Tondar had always been Mondo's Chief. They discussed what should they do ? Sharlu spoke to Tondar, he nodded his head,"Mondo I am getting old, I have a new wife, it is clip for juvenility to lead the Clan. As long as I am alive I will give notice you as needed but You are now Chief."

Today we celebrate the joning of two tribe into one kinship group the"clan of the cat !"

But what of the lomen and what is at the end of the Valley ?