Thread: WINDS OF THE PAST

PROLOGUE STORYTELLER KA'TARIA 3 days after New Fa'zz KI'S HOME VILLA, ALO WELCOME A Storm was coming, Shiro Ki Savage thought, as he glanced at the greying sky above the open pasture where their Tundra's grazed, and where he had just finished telling several stories to dozen's of Ka'Tri, half-blood, and human children. On the distant horizon, dark, swollen clouds were gathering, and the warm spring evening temperature had begun to cool. Rapidly. Not that it mattered. Unlike so many of his Alaysha 'People', he didn't fear the dreaded thunderstorms, quit the opposet. And oddly enough his children, grand children, great-grandchildren and their children did as well. But the thunderstorms came second to the main pleasure...besides family. And that was the joy of telling their history to eager listeners. Since he had such a good memories of history, folklore and ancient tales, he learned them and every new year...after the Great Fa'zz...he would tell the stories. Usually many of them, but this night the main story asked for was of the Outcasts...Chang'ko and his band of Ka'Tri Warrior's and Copper, a half-blood. With him being the Letler'yorst 'Story Teller', as well as the derloh 'holder' of the stories, Ki was happy bout it. For he had loved the stories, folklore and history of his Alaysha 'People', but his favorite had been the Story called WIND'S of the PAST, with Chang'ko, his outcast Ka'Tri and the half-blood Copper. When he'd been younger, he had asked all the Elders about him, as well as the Older Letler'yorst 'Story Teller's', if Copper, the half-blood, had been truly been real, but he had gotten the same explanation. It is a story, Kullo Gelo 'Strong Heart'. A story past down from ages past. We learn it, we tell it, we pass it along to the next Letler'yorst 'Storyteller'. Is it true? Maybe! Maybe not! Our job is to tell the story and pass it on, not ask if it's true. That maybe none of them really existed had proved a crushing disappointment to Ki. Mainly because of Copper. Who was a half-blood, as is Ki, and treated cruelly by his family and Alaysha 'People' and had followed Chang'ko and the other Outcasts. He had always felt a connection to Copper, that they shared a bond. More than once, while growing up, he had told himself that it was a foolish, crazy idea that was. After all, if the half-blooded Ka'Tri had existed...well lived...he was long dead and buried, two thousand years before he'd been born, and even longer still with how old he really was. The fact that he, his children, grandchildren and so on, lived far longer than normal Ka'Tri's, didn't help much. Yet the feeling persisted...still...as strongly as in the beginning, and it had been a thorn in his side when the other kids found out his infatuation for him. Roje, roje!! Kullo Gelo's 'Strong Heart's' a roje! Yeah, a roje! What else would you expect from a half-blood given birth to by his own Paja 'father'!? What happens if we touch you Kullo Gelo 'Strong Heart'? Will we become roje too? Yeah, can't believe that you, a half-blood, would be good to hang around, we might get the roje germ if you touch us, so stay away! Get lost and don't ask to play with us anymore! From then on he was called a roje by all the kids as he'd grown up and from then to the time he'd gone looking for his Aja 'Mom', had become a word that hurt each time it was spoken with a disgusted and hateful tone. Now, as Ki remembered their cruelty, he would sigh and push back the pain that came with remembering his years of growing up with them and their cruel words, actions and down right meanness in those days growing up. One had grown up to be the Zi'Luu 'Chief', heritage, while four others were killed in the hunt of his Alaysha 'People' by the huma's, one became a vel'sa 'slave' on a distant planet and the last two. One had beaten and raped him while they had been held captive by huma scientist, the other died shortly after.