Thread: Worlds Apart (Madam Mim&Rave)

Trying to cover his erection only drew her attention to it. Eedahn raised an eyebrow, smirked, and muttered something but didn't pursue the matter. They'd see about it when he wasn't going to die and they'd determined whether they'd be able to get him back home. He was, after all, one more mouth to feed and she didn't want him to get her pregnant then leave. While monogamy had yet to be invented and children in this village lived with their mothers, fathers still helped care for the children. Dayfed the Giant drew more huts along with hers and then two stick figures, which he informed her were them, then pointed to the dirt village before gesturing around them. Eedahn frowned, not understanding what he was trying to ask. He wanted to share her hut? She shook her head and attempted to explain how things worked here. After all, she didn't know how giants lived so he probably didn't know how they lived, and she didn't know what he was asking so she might as well try something else. But where to start? Jehel, she said after a moment of thought. She cupped her arms like she was cradling a baby, then pointed at her leaking breast. Jehel, ne? She drew three stick figures in the dirt, two smaller than the one in the middle. The middle figure was drawn with two large circles to indicate breasts. Jehel, she said, pointing to the smaller stick figures, yoma, she pointed to the taller figure, then put a hand to her own chest. Yoma, she repeated. Nikah, Tuam, Eedahn, she said, pointing first to the two smaller stick figures and labeling the taller one as herself. Jehel, jehel, Yoma. Ne? She looked to see if he understood, then drew a hut around the three stick figures. Jeheln ou yoma etin. She stuck out her two index fingers and placed them parallel to each other, motioning 'together.' Etin, ne? Jeheln ou yoma etin, ou marou. She drew a fourth stick figure inside the hut, labeling it 'marou' again before thinking better and giving it what was clearly a cock. Thinking again, she tried to clarify and drew a stick family apart from the hut, labeling jehel, yoma, and marou before pointing at Dayfed. Na marou, she said, shaking her head while pointing at him and hoping she had gotten across that marou was a father, not just a man. Through a lot of drawing and labeling Eedahn conveyed--or at least hoped she conveyed--that children lived with their mothers, and two people who shared an eldest child shared a hut. Her eldest was called Nikah, whose father was Reyun, and since Nikah had also been Reyun's first child they shared a hut. She tried to clarify this by drawing Reyun's three other children with as many women, and Tuam's father Atai's nine other children by six other women and demonstrate that he lived with the mother of his eldest, but that may have just confused Dayfed. Sitting back on her heels, she blew her hair out of her face in frustration and gave up. He'd learn. If nothing else in a day or two once they'd figured out what to do with him he'd learn that he couldn't live with her forever. Ana key vo, meshra? she teased, changing the subject and pulling at his...well, the closest she could figure was that they were tiny pants. They'd all had a good giggle when they saw that he wore tiny pants beneath his regular pants, as though he were afraid he would somehow wind up walking around pantless if he didn't. She pulled at the waistband, surprised at how it stretched. She raised an eyebrow again at his erection, smirked, then let the tiny pants go. Kesher va, she said, standing and helping him to his feet before turning to show him the village. When she turned it was apparent that her back and shoulders were tattooed with the same pigment as her face. The village was full mostly of women, children, and older men since the hunters were out getting the mammoth, but a few warriors had stayed behind to protect the village. With the cold seasons coming they were expecting other tribes to join them--safety in numbers, after all--but it also meant more raiders looking for food and fuel. Eedahn walked unselfconsciously half-naked as she tried her best to explain things in small, simple words that could be combined with gestures. She tried to explain that she was a hunter, that her strength and speed and stamina--along with her large breasts and hips--made her a desirable mate, but she didn't know if any of this got through to him, particularly when she mimed some copulative act.