Mondo 's clan


I am Mondo when my storey began I was 16 years old. My Padre was killed by a cave bear 5 age earlier and my Mother was claimed by Grog .... Grog hates me.

The men are gathering for a hunt, we are traveling to a summer bivouac and penury to possess centre for the trek. Grog kicks me because he says I am too slow ... .. soon, very soon I will gainsay him. He says my big feet make me clumsy.

The men are ready to hunt and the foreland man Tondor calls us to locomote out. lateen sail has spotted a herd of Bison not to far from our camp. We will train them and set up an ambush. Tondor tells Grog and I to displace ahead on the right hand while lateen and Gorbus does the Saame to the left.

I ease behind a sway with my fishgig in script when something startles the ruck and they began running towards me. I hear a grunt and looking at over my shoulder joint and see Grog swinging his nine at my head. My movement caused the gust to be a stunning blow instead of killing me it knocked me unconscious and I fell in to the stampede. Luckily there was a utter tree that had fallen and lay in their course and my lifeless soundbox rolled under its branches.

I opened my eyes, my head scathe and I could hardly see. I try to tolerate but could not. I check and I still had my body of water skin. I took a drink and poured some over my caput. Slowly very slowly I began to derive to my senses. Grog tried to wipe out me before I could challenged him.

Grog was about 5'tall and weighed about 200 lbs. I on the early hand stood at 6'and weighed about the Saami but where Grog was fat mine was muscle. One day I will take him down, maybe today when I get back to camp.

I found my spear and using it as a staff I made my way back to camp. Before I made it to the bivouac area I realized something was very wrongfulness, no weed, as I rounded the boulder that marked the entrance to the box canon where the refugee camp had been for calendar month. Before me was a waste expanse no huts no people ... I was alone ... I collapsed to the ground.

The Clan probably thought I was utter, Grog would suffer told them that I got caught in the stampede. That was when I also realized that I did not eff how long I was out, as debile as I felt it could have been days. 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 berries 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 spear sticking out of the Bison 's belly. It must receive eluded the kindred and died slowly. I took my flint knife and began the cognitive operation of skinning it. Before I was one-half done I decided to build up a fire to hold back predators away. I gathered Wood and pulled out my fire gem struck them together and directed the sparks to the spunk and in moments I had my fervency I fed it heavy pieces of Ellen Price Wood cashbox I had a raging fire.



I cut off some of the nitty-gritty and placed it on a stone near the fire. Just by stroke, a few age ago a lump of meat was dropped into the coals of our fire. Some time later my Father noticed the tantalizing smell from the cooking inwardness he raked it out, brushed it off and took a bite. We each tried a art object of the manipulate nub and now often cooked our pith. I stood up from placing the center and went back to the skinning of the bison.

There was a watercourse near by so I decided to just bide right where I was. I made wheel and hung small-arm of core to smoke and to dry. I staked out the Bison cutis and began to scrape the pelt and tan it.
I stayed there for a workweek and ate my fill and although I heard vulture almost every night my fire seemed to keep open them at bay. I found some small tree with straight automobile trunk about an in to an inch and a half in diam. I cut two about eight fundament retentive then I cut belittled ace to defecate a spread of about three foot. These I tied to the longer terminal to make a travois. I cut a lot of slight striptease from the Bison peel for this and to a greater extent to tie the cutis and and the essence to the travois.



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Grog set looking into the campfire thinking about how his plan to get rid of Mondo had worked so well, he laughed to himself. It was even beneficial than he had planed, Mondo had fell right in straw man of the stampede. He laughs to himself nothing left of Mondo.

Tondor regretted the loss of Mondo for Mondo was fast becoming the best hunter in the Clan. They had looked for him but Grog had seen him fall in figurehead of the stampede so there was not much 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 nothing but ashes. Tondor decided to turn North east in search of new land.

Mondo 's female parent was sure enough that Grog was at geological fault for her sons death but was afraid to say anything. She knew that Grog would outfox her and leave her behind. So she kept her idea to herself.
Lateen 's girl Sonda was heartbroken ... Even though she was only 11 she had a crush on Mondo. Mondo was the marvellous, strongest and most handsome and Sonda knew that one day he would clean her ... She just had to turn a short bit ... well since her chest of drawers was unconditional and she was as penny-pinching as a bamboo shoot, maybe a lot of growing.

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Mondo lifted the terminal to his shoulder and began his search for the clan. It was at least a moon to the summer camp. He had made a scarf bandage from a couple of strands cut from the bison skin and kept the triangular bandage in his hand as he walked. By the sentence he stopped for the day he had three hare and a Wisconsinite. He had gutted them while walking then when he stopped he finished skinning them. Mondo was bent over scrapping the badger pelt when he heard a holloa ... He grabbed his gig and turned, he barley had meter to set himself as a saber-tooth Panthera tigris launched itself toward him. Mondo dropped to his genu and steadied his spear. The Tiger hit the spear and ram the spear into its pectus the effect of the encroachment carried the Panthera tigris over and past Mondo ripping the spear out of his paw. Mondo grabbed for his flint tongue and leaped on to the tigers back and with the razor sharp flint knife attacked the pharynx of the tiger. The force of the tiger landing broke the fishgig in half. The blade of the shaft pierced the heart of the wildcat as it slung Mondo off its back. It roared then dropped at Mondo 's feet … short. Mondo had closed his centre because he knew he was utter ... nada happened …. he opened his oculus to see the Panthera tigris at his metrical unit, then he shook.

He had no meter to descend apart. He gathered Sir Henry Joseph Wood and ramp up a gravid fervency. He began skinning the Tiger noting the fact that it was a distaff and looked like it may ingest been nursing. Mondo staked out the Panthera tigris skin out to cause scraping easier. Then he drug the carcass away from ingroup. Returning to the camp he found three kittens eating his rabbits that he had planned on having himself. Well he thought that answers the interrogation about if the Tiger had kits or not.. Mondo picked up the coney and stuck them on control stick over the firing. He cut the badger into humble small-arm and fed it to the kit. They ate their filling then curled up adjacent to Mondo and went to sleep.

The next aurora Mondo went back to the tiger carcass ... it was almost sporting nada but bones left. He looked around and found the header and removed the Saber- tooth. Being about six inches long they would be good for stabbing. He headed back to camp the outfit were playing and nipping at the badger bones. He staked out the Panthera tigris skin and went to work on scrapping.

Mondo lifted the poles and started off it had been three days preparing the tiger skin, the kit played around his feet. They would consider a few gradation and look back and mew. Then run to grab up then repeat, they were not trusted what to do for Mondo kept on walking. This went on for over an hour then the kit started drifting farther back. Until Mondo heard a plaintive cry and an answering growl .... a coyote looking for an light meal. Why ? Mondo does not know but he dropped the perch grabbed the half lance and attacked the prairie wolf. Being a coward the Canis latrans ran away … well just out of reach ... Mondo scratched his head wondering why he did some of the matter he did. He walked back to the tired and scared outfit and picked up one turned it over … it was a male person he said"You are Bruno ”. The side by side had tabby stripes and was female for some reason it reminded him of lateen 's girl,"You are Sondi."The conclusion one was small but male person Mondo laughed at the struggles and said"You are Runt."He carried them back to the carrier and placed them on the skins. They settled down to sleep.

As the 24-hour interval passed the outfit would get down from the carrier run and romp till they tired then they would climb back up and go to sleep. Mondo began to remark a slight chill in the air he began to interest that there might be a latterly snow storm coming. He started searching for a situation to hold up and wait it out. With the aid of his slingback he had tidy sum of pith to live on so that was no concern but he did necessitate to find a straight pole to defecate into a spear. Another hour of walking and he noticed a stall of tree diagram that had a few saplings the perfect distance for his spear ... if he could find the right stones maybe he could chip out three or four fizgig heads. He began to search for good flints and collected a few and cut down a few saplings.

As Mondo set down to began shaping the fizgig head word he heard a belly laugh, He took his half fishgig and moved off in the counselling of the scream. He was walking in a dry stream bed, as he walked he would clean 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 dexter he saw something he had only heard about. Before him was what his dad had called lomen their body were twisted as was their faces they were feeder of men. The lomen were broad in the body and stiff 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 extract something from under the bramble bushes next to the rocks. From the screams I could separate it was a female and that the spikelet was all that was between her and these monsters. I loaded my sling and let fly hitting the eater in the temple ... he dropped the leg and fell forward. I reloaded just as one of the early turned toward me I let fly the stone catching him in the bow head. Before I could reload the last one had turned and charged me.

Before he could reach me three tawny dynamos went streaking past one grabbed an ankle joint, one grabbed the most private voice causing him to recruit his head which gave Bruno the luck he needed and latched on to his throat. As the behemoth went down I planted my half fishgig in to his dresser and pressed it into his tenderness. I called the outfit off. I had not noticed but they had grown and their milk teeth had been replaced by the beginning of their tusk, 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 howler and I said do n't hurt my kitten he just wants to play 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 opening through the brambles. I was surprised to find there was a cave behind the brambles. The chess opening was about four infantry across and tall but once in side the cave it was at least eight animal foot tall. As I entered the starting time thing I saw was an eight class old playing with shrimp beside her was her mother and three other women and two male child about ten. The man who had been ripped apart was the only when adult male with them. They were looking at me with concern, I glanced to either incline and realized that Bruno and Sondi were escorting me. I will be right back I will get rid of the eubstance and get my geared wheel and then I will turn back. I drug the bodies a sound elbow room away so predators would not come close to the cave. I checked them for arm but all they had was clubs, which I had no use for.

I drug my travois inside the cave and made numerous trips back outside to bring in firewood. Then I drug the Brambles back to treat the entrance.
Then I looked at the the great unwashed still standing in the Sami station that I had left them.."Please at least sit down, I am not here to smart you if you wish to leave I will not halt you. Do what you wish."

I decided to bequeath them alone and light a fire. 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 male child asked if it was alright to pet the kittens. Sondi answered by rubbing on their legs, Giordano Bruno was not far behind. I continued getting the firing started and started some coney to roasting. I am Mondo I will finish telling my tale. I noticed that some of the smoke drifted down the ceiling line of the cave then disappeared. I lit a length of woodwind and and used it as a Aaron's rod. I walked farther in to the undermine the two boys and Sondi and Giordano Bruno followed. About 50 pes inward we found a stream that ran along the rightfulness paries. The Caterpillar smelled the pee and took a drink. I dipped my hand in, the water system was cold-blooded and sweet. We walked on for about a hundred feet the cave made a bend to the left and opened up to a Brobdingnagian room with a pond almost twenty to thirty feet across. There was some kind of Moss on the cave bulwark that gave off spark. I no longer require the torch so I put it out by covering it with dirt.. I walked across the room and could see an curtain raising ahead of me. When I reached the porta I was shocked to see a beautiful valley. A river flowed from out of the ground at the base of the great deal. Wild biz was abundant, berry were unmistakable as well as herb and spice all were in ken. 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 dear guess was it was at to the lowest degree 10 Roman mile long and 5 wide but would know better when I had a chance to explore.

While the boys were gone I walked out into the vale and looked around. I felt like I was home, the cave had tax shelter and fresh water and the vale had all the solid food we could eat. I was standing in presence 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 early 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 live here and no one would know.."Moli and whiz the former two cleaning lady 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 right we needed the things moved to this end .We all went back together.

The first night we slept on the fur it was closing quiescence, in the heart of the night I awoke with an arm draped across my organic structure stroking my chest and stomach.. I started to turn 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 pipe dream. And when I awoke the next dawn the madam were out gathering herb Ludi was directing them ... that 's when I found out she was a medicament woman learner, And Lil 's mother.
The other ma'am, Pori seventeen, Moli nineteen and whizz twenty five were not related to the boys, Drago and Malo were twins but not superposable, .they did not get laid what had happened to their parents.

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The wholly 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 stoppage. He pointed to three of his grouping and speech production in a lyric they did not translate. Ludi assumed he was assigning the three to watch out them. Their guards pushed them down near a boastfully shoot down tree. The lomen had not noticed that there was a hole under the tree which led to the dry watercourse bed and eventually to the cave. Lil found the jam. She told her mother and Ludi whispered to the others. Then they waited. Later into the night the lomen began to doze 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 disturbance to rouse the lomen. They ran as fast as they could then Ludi saw the brambles and every one tried to slip 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 urinate sure no one was injured. And they all stood there in fear not knowing what to do next.

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Mondo began working on his fishgig he stripped the bark from the saplings. And stood the hafts near the blast to begin the drying out and hardening of the beam of light. He took the stones and began working on the sword for the spearpoint. Drago and Malo sat closing curtain watching his every motion. Mondo looked around and spotted the kittens following the adult female and playing. The women seemed to engage the comportment of the Saber-tooth computerized axial tomography as cancel. After making four fishgig blades and rotating the jibe Mondo decided it was time to look over the valley. He gather a few rocks and his sling and motioned to the boy, they fell in behind him.

Mondo saw a small herd of bison, many rabbits, a assortment of birds and Goat and sheep and many former animals. They all seemed to be food animate being other than small carnivores there did not appear to be any vauntingly vulture. There was no grounds of Tigers, bears or Hugo Wolf. The most dangerous beast he saw was bovine. One breed had trumpet about six feet in distance. The deer population was abundant and they counted the points on a prominent hart as three hands plus two fingers. I thought about what I had done … into this peaceful valley I had introduced three top of the pipeline predators. They may be young now but … one day. I guess I would birth to train them. And let them hunt in the woods from the bramble President George W. Bush incoming. I decided my appraisal of the size of the vale was close very close but probably the valley was a bit big. In the distance Mondo could see a dark area which he felt could be another cave ... maybe another exit. One day he vowed to walk all of the vale ... Then he would know.

When he and the male child returned the camp seemed to be vacuous ... Mondo was worried, with spear at the ready he entered pack. Then he heard laughter from inside the cave. He and the boy entered the cave and was met with the sight of ace completely nude and the others all waist cryptical in the pool ... also nude. They saw him and the boys and waved to them, come in cum in there is a hot outflow in the pool. Mondo looked around at the boys but was too previous they had already dropped their clothes and were running for the water. Mondo shed his own skin to the oohs and aahs of the adult women. Mondo did n't give birth to do anything just walk into the pool. The woman met him and began to lap him even Lil tried to help but the women said no.

The sling kept us in food and skins for clothes. There was a plant that had blades that looked like steel, the thorn on the end of the sword could be broken off and a dilute train of thought like piece about two feet long could be pulled out of the steel, this made for a double-dyed needle and thread. The thorn would reform after about two calendar week so the needle and screw thread was constantly replaced as long as the brand was not cut. I taught all how to use the slings and they all seemed to be cancel. It was a pleasant living 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 screw how much Thomas More she could take. Since Mondo had been killed Grog seemed to search for affair to get angry about ... and he beat her. Tondor saw this and tried to push aside it but he to had been casting his centre at the loveliness of Sharlu. Ever since his wife had died he had thought to take a new married woman, but by the law of nature of the kin 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 sentence. A sickness had swept through the clan, Tobar the medicine Man worked with them all until he too became chuck Before it was over they had lost six children, five men including Tobar and eight women. The Clan was really hurting there was only xi men, five women and ten children. Of the ten children only three were over twelve and only one was male. Some of the men were still very watery only three Hunter were useable to bung the Clan. No Tondar thinks, today is not a effective day to challenge. Grog is needed.

Grog was never touched by sickness and he took this as a augury that he was destined to be head of the kin group. He would catch Tondar and he would plan.

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Today whiz asked to go on the James Henry Leigh Hunt with Mondo and he agreed. They were about three mile from the Camp when Star dropped to her Knees and put her headspring to the ground and pulled her clothing to the side baring her delightful butt. As she wiggled her nates she tells Mondo she wants a baby. Having never done this before Mondo squatted behind her and tried to enter her. After the fourth miss whizz reached between her legs, took him in script and guided him into her velvet boxing glove. Mondo had never felt anything like this before and he went wild bouncing genius all over the dry land. Then he felt a unusual sensation and he grabbed her hips and shoved himself all the way into ace, His release was like an blowup and as the feeling receded. Mondo collapsed at Stars feet, the rest period of the break of day was spent the Saame way. They finished their Leigh Hunt and headliner told him the other cleaning lady were waiting their turn. They had decided that their tribe needed more people. Mondo walked around the rest of the day with a big grin on his face just thinking … he would get to do this to the other cleaning lady too.

As they arrived back at encampment everyone knew that mavin had been successful and every time the early cleaning lady would walk past Mondo they would twitch their tail at him. Even Lil as untried as she was got in on the tail twitching. Two calendar month later all the cleaning lady were meaning and Lil was asking her Mother why she could n't be pregnant too.

Mondo was training the computerized axial tomography and as they became larger he began taking them out into the timberland past the Bramble gate. The Cats had made a honorable kill and I was dragging my travois with the pith and pelt down the gully when Bruno came to a occlusion and I could here a grumbling in Sondi 's throat. Runt was crouched in his attack mode. I made a downward button with my hands, I had trained them that this meant to bow down and wait. I crawled forward and spotted three lomen guarding a rail line of captives .My kat hated lomen. I counted the prisoner, two men, six woman and five kid under twelve, two son and three girls. We followed knowing they would finish for a rest soon. When they stopped we waited cashbox two of the lomen began to nap. Then I stood up with my sling and bounced a rock off the guard duty temple killing him instantly. The guards falling awakened the other two lomen they began to rise but stopped when they felt the hand on their chest. Bruno and Sondi made one separatrix and opened the throat of the two. Runt not to be out done ripped out the throat of the one I had killed.


I released one of the prisoner and instructed her to put out the others while I got rid of the lomen.

I looked around at the captives and told them not to occupy about the Cats, they are cultivate. I told them to survey us to Paradise. I picked up my Travois and led them to the bramble gate. When we stepped out at the early end they were speechless. They blended in with the quietus of our fast growing Clan. Even though two of the women were married woman 's of the two men Mondo was informed it was his job to get them pregnant the first time. Because I was firm and brave and this they wanted their starting time born to be also. They meant inaugural Born of their new kin group because one of the children, a little female child named Rena was the girl of the wife of one of the men. Rena was lupus erythematosus than a yr old.


As months passed and the women all became significant I decided that Shad and Gurk the two men I had freed were capable of feeding the kindred for awhile. I decided to get another search for my Mother and Tondor 's Clan. I carried my Travois and 3 spears and Bruno and Sondi. half-pint I left with Ludi to help protect the clan. I took no intellectual nourishment except for one repast and two water skins. As I departed the bramble logic gate I covered it with smart brambles and scouted the area to reach sure 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 large game on the way out. No sense of packing pelts both directions. I sent Sondi to reconnoiter ahead and Bruno to make end run around us. By dark fall we had had no problem and I had killed enough low game to prey myself and the cat. I built up a fire and snuggled between the computed axial tomography and drifted off to sleep.

The succeeding good morning 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 obtain out what.
I tried to get the Cats to reconnoitre but all they would do was grumble deep in their chest. I got my spears ready and watched my cat, I knew they would discourage me of impending danger.

The Hackles on Bruno 's neck were standing straight up and Sondi had moved about six animal foot from me also facing toward the direction that Bruno of Toul was facing. I picked up one of my fizgig and backed between two boulders that were about eighteen inches apart. I still have no musical theme what I am about to face. Then Saint Bruno roars and is answered by a roar that chills even the best hunting watch .... a Cave Bear it roared out of the shrub on all fours. When it saw Leo IX it stood on it 's hind legs it was at least fifteen foot tall. Then the bear looked me straight in the eye, Giordano Bruno attacked ... The bear just knocked him aside as if he were n't even there. It dropped back to all quartet 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 Bruno struck from the rear. The bear reared up again, as its brain was raising up I struck with my spear heterosexual person for the pharynx. The maiden fishgig did not penetrate very far but it seemed to con fuse the bear. He swung his mighty paw but he hit the boulder instead of me. The Cats were ravishing the bears hind quarters then leaping aside when the bear tried to attack them. I unknowingly had reached in to my belt and pulled out the Sabre tooth tusk. Sondi takes another clump out of the bears front leg, the bear turns its head to the side, I see my chance and I pounce. With all my might I jam the Sabre tooth in to the ear duct of the bear which penetrates the brain. Not realizing it is beat the support swings back at me ... I back off, the expect hollo and capitulation dead at my feet.
I check my Cats both seem to be limping from the tossing around but no bleeding is evident. I skin the bear. I took the skin and a little of the meat. I really hated to leave all that nitty-gritty but predators and scavengers would be all over us. We traveled on boulder clay we came to a current and there we camped till I finished with the shako. This took almost a week after that I would work with it after my days travel.



9 Babies

The women at the cave began to afford birthing Star was first then Pora, Lorn, Ludi and Moli. All male child except star her daughter was called Little genius. Ludi named her boy Mondu son of Mondo and as she was the Medicine womanhood she ruled the roost while Mondo was gone. Ludi was sure that by the clock time Mondo came home all the child will be born even little Yo'te the last to get pregnant. The men and boys kept the inner circle supplied with pith. Every day one of the male child and runt would go to the bramble gate and ticker. The two men pulled their own weight Shad was a spear manufacturing business and Grug was a potter he made pots and bowls for everyone ... .. but they all seemed to leave out Mondo his strength and leadership was missed.

Tondar is worried only 3 hunters left, Himself, Grog and Hobar each has been training one of the shaver. Tondar is training lateen sail's girl Sonda who is already respectable with a sling. Hobar has the other 12 y.o. girl Goba and Grog is training the 13 y.o. boy Socar. It is proving to be very unmanageable to feed everyone. With as many that are still weak and sick of they were ineffectual to move to winter grounds. Luckily they had found a cave that was an air vent of a near inactive vent. Heat still permeated the cave field from hot gasses so they only needed fervency if they wished to fudge. Each hunter pair went out alone only time the unanimous group would go out on a hunt was if large game was spotted. At that time the women who were strong enough would make Travois to help skinning and truckage of the meat if a killing was made. Sadly this was rare..



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Fifteen twenty-four hour period later Mondo arrived at the kin group summertime ingroup he was disheartened to see the barren burned out area. He searched around but could not recite if the kindred had been here when the fervency occurred or if the fire was sure-enough. He stayed there another 10 years making reconnoitering rophy in all directions. All he could really tell was the true cat were uneasy in this burned out area. Two days ago the cats had brought down a deer. Mondo cut it up and fed them big clod of the heart and soul and worked on the fell. He decided that in the morning he would head back. He had to admit he missed his new clan.

The next morning after a quick spirit around he began his trek homeward. Leo IX began his scout and Sondi took point Mondo could severalize they were well-chosen to be leaving this place. Days turned into hebdomad it had been an light stumble except for twice the Cats had warned him of lomen on the prowl. Mondo took the African tea in the George Bush and told them to be silent and they watched the lomen searching for new captives. Their flavour was overpowering even more so when two of them sat down to rest lupus erythematosus than twenty paces away. The Cats did n't like it either but I was able to keep them quiet. Then they decided to occupy a nap, That was More than I or the Cats could take. I turned them light, in seconds there was two less lomen in these woods. It was a thing of lulu to watch them figure out now that they had nearly reached their full growth. Bruno of Toul was about five foot at the presence shoulder and about four fundament at the hind fourth. Sondi was just in pocket-sized not that it mattered and peewee at the cave was a full base smaller but I think Runt was faster than his crony and sister.

I could see the dry washing ahead once I entered it I would be close to a nautical mile from Bramble Gate. Now silence was really needed the track above the dry wash was made by the lomen as they carry their captives to their home field ... Where ever that is. But today it was shed light on. We made it to Bramble gate as we neared the brambles began to move and out came Drago and peewee. I motioned them back inside and the bozo and I followed. All I could cerebrate about for the preceding hour was the hot springs., When I reached them I began dropping things, by the time I was at the springs I was nude and walked out into the kitty and sank down and closed my heart. After a few suspiration I opened my middle and was met by ten women all carrying a baby. My backtalk dropped afford and I asked"Where did all the Babies come from ?"The only solution I got was smiles. I was Home.

I stood on the bank of our river I looked across at the baronial trees on the early English. It has been 4 years since we had found our valley. We had learned how to fume our meat, there was an indention in the paries of the cave passage near room sized. It was near the bullet hole, we had left some meat on drying racks in this room and the locoweed from our cook fervidness passed over it. When we tried this meat we were surprised by the sense of taste. We tried raw gist on the racks and the effect were capital. We were able to pretend fewer prominent kills and no meat was wasted. Yes this was truly a grand valley.
I walked into the River at this full point the water just reached my knee joint. Along the far bank the women were gathering berries 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 boy and I did most of our major Richard Morris Hunt out the bramble logic gate. That way we had the assistant of the Cats, they were still not used in the vale. The only time we hunted inside the valley 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 magnetic pole and using a cross method at the corners and ends of the poles we had built a fence with a gate. There were three female and 2 male person there was plenty of solid food for them and a ramification off the river made water useable. It was n't till breeding prison term that we found there was a problem with the mix.

The two males fought for the right wing to spawn. We watched the fight the turgid bull had horns 18"long on either side of his straits. The pocket-sized only had one horn the other had been broken off some metre earlier, he was clearly at a disadvantage. It did n't fill long before the smaller bull was too injure to continue the fight. With R-2 we had made by weaving strips 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 son to get the women and the Travois and killed the bull and began butchering.

Over the days our herd has grown by cancel birthing and capturing former females and adding them to our herd. Our Clan was also growing the Lapp way. to the highest degree of the females seemed to welcome our mien. Which meant we only had to Isolate the Samson to be able to exercise with the cows. Gurk had noticed that after a calf suckled a few fall of Milk River was on one of her teats. He reached down gently so as not to startle the cow and stroked the teat. To his surprise a stream 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 back talk and sipped, his eye flew assailable and he took an even bigger tope then handed the pot to Malo who also took a drink. The milk was very racy and creamy and try out delicious.

Back at the pack Ludi was working on her own experiment. She had begun to drive seed fuel pod from plants they had eaten and herbs for medical specialty and had put them in the ground and watered them and they began to acquire. Mondo had watched the process and liked what he saw. He suggested that she have the children collect the ejaculate pods from the forage. Ludi questioned this ... we do not eat dope. Mondo explained he was afraid that the cow would eat all of the grass in the canyon. This way they could scatter the seeds all over the canyon and maybe it would farm and avail course the cows.
Mondo heard his named being called, he turned, and there was Malo with Gurk holding out a pot saying"swallow, drink."Mondo took the pot and tasted and with a face of surprise handed the pot to Ludi. After one mouthful Ludi was all questions ... What is it, where did you get it, can you get Sir Thomas More ? Gurk explained what had happened and that the cow seemed to want the milk removed as if it was too full. Malo suggested we try to give some to Lorn 's infant since Lorn had dried up and had no milk for her sister. Mondo hollered at Drago to get Lorn and her infant.

When Lorn arrived with her infant, Ludi stuck her finger in the Milk and dribbled some over the sister 's sass. The infant began reaching and its rima oris began suckling bm. Lorn immediately stuck her finger and copied Ludi 's movement.

Earlier Mondo had thought that this vale had no winter. It Did, but not severe and it only lasted about a calendar month. When it snowed the middle of the valley would be deep with the snow maybe a foot oceanic abyss. The relaxation of the valley would only get a dusting. Outside the Bramble Gate the snow would be in drifts up to 6 ft deeply. The Clan had many discussions about this ... They concluded that the valley was formed between Mountains and the mountains had closed in at the top limiting the total of snow that reached the solid ground before melting.





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Lateen 's story


When the sickness hit the Clan I was one of the lastly to catch it I watched as some recovered and some died. When it seemed to give passed there were only 3 men left to track down and 8 still to frail to do very much we had our head set on our convalescence but the fever kept popping back up and more than men and adult female had died. The kindred was near decimated, 5 men. 4 charwoman and 6 children was all that were left. Tondar was fighting to save the Clan going but every decision he made Grog questioned which caused ferment in the Tribe. After almost 4 years I finally had my strength back, Jonda, Tondar 's brother never recovered his full strength and could not be allowed to go on a William Holman Hunt alone. By now the younger 1 that had been trained by the hunters now ranked as full Hunter. Food was getting short, It was decided after much disputation by Grog that each of us would reconnoitre for big game and Jonda would look on the camp.

I headed in a oecumenical direction of Southwest we had agreed we would reconnoiter for three mean solar day and on the one-fourth we would riposte and report. On the 3rd day I had reached our old summer camp, the ardor burnt ground had given way to new ontogenesis. I searched the region and found old infantry mark but nothing new. I decided I had gone far enough and would get a effective Night rest and set about back early. I had killed a lapin with my sling and I cleaned it and put it on a spliff over the fire. While it cooked I thought about the problems with the tribe. They did not form as a family unit. Grog seemed to require to take over the leading not realizing no one would accompany him. Tondar realized this but with so few hunters he could not promise grog out. What to do ? What to do ? I guess ... .what was that noise I began to turn and suddenly every thing went black. …. unhunh where am I what happened ? I barely opened my optic. I was being carried ... my hands and feet 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 sounds and they stopped and lowered me to the background. With a few swipes with a flint knife my animal foot were freed then my hands. After the bamboo pole was removed I was moved forward to another bamboo magnetic pole that had 3 men and a adult female already had their hands and neck tied to that perch. I joined them. For days and weeks we were marched through the forest.

We were given fruit and berries to eat and a water skin twice a day. At night we would talk quietly. I learned that the lomen had raided their village and there were others than the three watching us. Tomorrow they will await for the other group to catch up. They are nervous about this area we will be entering, it seems they have lost a few men to the beast who walks with tiger. What is that I ask. They said they did n't cognise they could only understand about half of what the lomen say.
The woman was the one who knew the nearly of their language. She said that many had been killed in this area and their prisoners whisked away. They would determine their Quaker drug way into the forest and their throat would be torn out. Most were not found before the scavenger 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 step was found and it was huge.

I thought about the animate being and all the captive that had disappeared. The gravid foot I had ever seen was Mondo 's, but he had been numb for over 5 age. But Mondo ... that is how he got his name ; at birth his ft 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 khat need some exercise too.
Drago and Malo asked to go, I said who is going to help gurk. Malo says Toba and Leo the Lion they have already been helping him so they know what to do.
Mondo decided to take all three cats runt needed to sample a killing ... it had been awhile. They left early the adjacent morning through the Bramble Gate. They had been following the dry wash for only a mile when St. Bruno stopped and looked over his berm at Mondo and rumbled deep in his throat. Sondi and Runt slipped in amongst the chemical group. I put my hired hand on them and could feel them trembling. This told me it was not game ahead. I motioned everybody down and waited. Then I heard voices and crashing through the President George W. Bush ... .lomen ... they always traveled on the top alongside the wash. I always traveled the bottom of the wash. The top of the backwash had chaparral that blocked off the view of the actual Wash. We waited and let them pass. I tell my ally I heard human being voices as well. We turned and followed them we knew where they would kibosh ... they never learn.
Sure enough they stopped in the Lapp emplacement, a clearing that I had rescued the number one of my kin. We waited for them to settle down. I had Drago raise up the trap near the downed Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. As soon as we attacked he would depart cutting the citizenry loose. Finally they began to nap with one awake, he hears a randomness and turns around and shrimp charges and bites down on his privates ... I do n't know whats with that cat. The precaution screams and Shad drives his gig into the safety throat. The other two lomen scream"The Beast"and instead of turning to agitate they turned in fright. If it had not been for Sondi and Giordano Bruno we would have not been able to catch them. They ran them down from behind Sondi took a bite out of the upper right hand thigh which cause the lomen to gate-crash to the ground with Malo right behind, he drove his spear all the way through the back and into his heart. Bruno of Toul took down the third one by himself. He leaped high catching the lomen in the core of the back as the lomen hit the ground St. Bruno drove his ivory into the book binding of the lomen 's neck. The neck opening snapped instantly all I had to do was smile. As usual we drug the bodies out into the bush away from the trail. When Shad and I got back the prisoners were devoid, 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 woman looked at me then at my understructure and said,"You are the Beast"then she drew back
as the Cats entered and went to my side.
Lateen told me his story from the time the tribe left thinking I was deadened, all the way public treasury now. Then the other the great unwashed told me of their seizure and that there twelve More prisoner on the way.

We walked them to the Bramble logic gate and inside. I told them we would rescue the residuum of their tribe then they would have a choice. To either go back to their track down cause or to join our clan.

The next aurora the future group of captives arrived there were 6 of them and 4 guards. Mondo could sense the restlessness of the lomen. It was obvious they were concerned not to encounter the first grouping waiting for them. I sent Saint 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 front of them with spear at the ready. They thrust forward with their spear, Drago 's spear striking only the lodge the lomen was caring. The lomen raised his club preparing to impress at Drago when Mondo and Bruno of Toul arrived. Never slowing down 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 knife. It was over as fast as it started, they walked back to the prisoner all free now. Thanks to Malo. Mondo looked over the grouping 2 cleaning woman three teenagers, a boy and 2 girls, and one man. Mondo sent the boys and Runt with the freed captives to the bramble gate. He gave them instruction to remain in the washables near the hole under the fallen tree diagram and to take for Runt back trough he signaled.

Just before the sun went down the cobbler's last chemical group arrived, they too seemed concerned that the others were not waiting for them. Mondo and Shad had climbed a tree either side of meat of the trail where it left the clearing. Leo IX was in the George H.W. Bush behind them. Sondi had been following the lomen, the outlet to the clearing were blocked off. One of the lomen backed up near the hole where the male child were waiting, he was looking all around the clearing he was uncomfortable. He could smell out parentage, the former four guards were also uneasy. As the guards heel came down on the edge of the fix … a birdie whistled, a lion roared and the guard disappeared down the hole. The boys had each grabbed a leg and yanked the guard duty into the hole. Before he could recover Runt had removed his pharynx then leaped into the clearing and was now facing the former four Guards. Mondo and Shad leaped out of their trees driving their spears into the chests of two of the safeguard. The live two had no luck at all. They turned to run back and came grimace to human face with Sondi and half-pint as they stopped Giordano Bruno hit them from the rear. Drago and Malo were cutting the captives free. This bunch consisted of 3 females 2males a shaver about 10 and a infant in the arms of one of the women. All together we had rescued 17, 16 from one village and lateen from Mondo 's home base clan.

After they had all the masses in to the cave Mondo and his hunters really needed to track down and set out at once. Ludi took the newcomers in hand and talked to them. By the fourth dimension the huntsman had returned with their kill it had already been decided. All of the Villagers except for the woman and the baby had decided to go back to their Village. The woman with the baby was just too weak to produce the trip and the lomen had killed her husband.
It was decided that Mondo, Lateen, Bruno and Sondi would guide them back then they would continue on to Tondors Tribe.

Mondo 's Clan furnished all the men with fishgig including the teenage boy this made them a military unit to be reckoned with. 9 Spear men and 2 Big Cats. I think they would savor meeting up with some lomen. The women were pulling the travois and each travois had at least 4 extra gig on it. Three days into their trek they got their wish. Thanks to the Cats they were ready, the charwoman and children gathered in the center field the men squatted around them with their spear angled out to protect the women.


The lomen charged out of the Bush screaming and waving their guild. Mondo and Lateen stood and began throwing their lance with the women handing them more. The lomen were surprised when the Cats attacked from behind. The computed axial tomography forced the lomen onto the anchored spears and the Villagers stabbed with maliciousness. They were angry and wanted revenge. By the time it was all over there were 11 abruptly lomen and four wounded. No one planned to take prisoner, they would be finished off'. The Villagers had 2 men with broken bones and one dead. It was obvious that the cleaning woman were proud of their men. One of the injured had a recrudesce shoulder joint. The loman got through and caught him with its club. One of the women picked up a spear and stabbed the loman multiple sentence. The other women jumped in and it was a battle royal after that.

Three hebdomad later we entered their hamlet. Each travois was loaded with centre and pelt, we had hunted on the way. We were met by the village headman and the music man. After they conquered their fright of the Cats we were welcomed with spread out weapon. The people we had returned to their hamlet equaled over a third of the hamlet population and were wife 's and daughters and forefather and sons. They were very of import to the Village. They threw us a spread that night and we departed early the succeeding first light.

Lateen assured Mondo that they only had two more days till they reached the Cave of Tondars tribe. He also told him about the discontentment Grog had caused. Lateen said he was sure that Grog had beaten Mondo's mother but could not prove it.. Mondo informed him he needed no substantiation ... Grog had tried to shoot down him and that was enough he was going to call him out..



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Lateen informed Mondo the cave was just over the rise. Mondo stepped out a footling faster. A big Cat to either side and the Sun behind him Mondo looked like a Golden hulk. The people of the kinship group raised their hands to fill in their center trying to identify the image before them. Lateen picked this time to step into the perspective. He hollered,"Hello the Camp"…. Tondar yelled it is Lateen. Sonda began to run to meet her Dad but seeing one of the Big African tea dance step forward caused her to stop. Grog walked out of the cave … Silence fell over the bivouac as Mondo 's voice bellowed out ..."Grog ... you tried to stamp out Me ... For that I Call you OUT !"

Mondo did not waffle he walked straight to Grog and one huge fist crashed into Grogs face. The blow knocked grog to the ground. Mondo systemically beat Grog senseless. No one tried to stop the massacre, Bruno and Sondi were walking a traffic circle around the combatants. Grog tried to grab a spear to use against Mondo. But an enrage Mondo just brushed it aside and continued to outfox his resister to a pulp. Mondo slowly began to cease the beating and backed off looking at the fat glob of jelly at his feet. Mondo turned and looked at Tondar By my decree and the laws of the Clan ... I claim all Grogs Possessions an ban him from the Clan. Tondar smiled and asked,"What about your mother ?"
"My Mother is a free Clanswoman."
Tondar stood and walked to Sharlu,"I claim you as my Ilex paraguariensis, do you match ?"since she had been declared a rid clanswoman it was her choice. She looked at her son who smiled and nodded and said,"Tondar I claim you."

Sonda, now a Pres Young woman and a clan huntsman put her limb around Mondo,"I have waited for you and I claim you as a Hunter 's right."Mondo returned her hug and made a movement with his fingers. When Sonda turned she found herself facing one of the Big computerized axial tomography,"Sonda meet Sondi. We accept you."

Lateen began unloading the travois and putting inwardness on to cook. Every one just walked around Grog until Mondo grabbed his feet and drug him outside the bivouac and dumped him there. As he walked into ingroup lateen sail was telling everyone of Momd 's Clan and that there was no need to impress camp twice a twelvemonth and there was a medicine woman and a good life.

So began the trek to the Bramble Gate.



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Tondar spoke with Socar who had been Grog 's hunting watch trainee. He asked him how he felt about the ostracism of Grog ... Socar says the only affair he hate about it is he did not get to do the beating himself. When they would go on a hunt, Grog would belittle him and hit him when he did not do as Grog said. Grog was a mean man. I now wish to pick up from Mondo.

As time went by on the trail the hunters hunted at their leisure. The nearer they came to their new home the more charge up they became. Then the day came, before Mondo could hit the Brambles logic gate there was an run of baby and Runt. They gathered the other child and drug them inside to show them everything. Mondo began doing the same with the adult. When they reached the other end of the cave they all stood silently staring at the beautiful valley. Our field hut were beginning to take the human body of permanent structures. There was no need for impermanent protection anymore.

Tondar wanted to get laid everything about the cattle, the center smoking, and especially about the Milk. They sat around a campfire and talked way into the night. One of the topics they discussed was leadership of the Clan. It was very obvious that this was Mondo's kindred but Tondar had always been Mondo's boss. They discussed what should they do ? Sharlu spoke to Tondar, he nodded his foreland,"Mondo I am getting old, I have a new wife, it is time for youth to chair the kin. As long as I am awake I will advise you as needed but You are now Chief."

Today we celebrate the joning of two Clans into one kin the"Clan of the CT !"

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