Chapter 16

Noa who was now age 5 found a rare butterfly on the beach, which would have made the butterfly collection complete. Alas she tripped over the scaffolding that had been put up and lost it. Noa was very upset about this and runaway to the end of the village to be alone by an overflow of water at the south end of the island. Noa was afraid that the guiding Hand might punished her for losing such a rare item. Wabu came and joined her and she said, 'Go away, I don't want you here,'
'Why'. Asked Wabu who was still only 5 nearly 6.
'I said go away Wabu, I don't want the guiding hand to see me,'
'Why what did you do?'
'Leave me alone!!' and she got up and runaway to the other end of the shore.
Wabu was wondering if he had upset her and felt confused, so he ran after her calling, 'Noa, Noa don't runaway.' Half way across she stopped and waited for Wabu and looking round her to see if a guiding hand was about.

Noa decided to come clean and told him about finding a rare butterfly that they had been looking for weeks and she let it go. 'Oh no Wabu explained,' that is not good.'
'So you think I'm bad?'
'No I don't think your bad just clumsy. May be if you ask the guiding hand, you might get off lightly. Then Noa thought and said I beg the guiding hand, to forgive me. I'm sorry I lost the rare collectible. The guiding hand knew what she had done, but wanted to teach her to be careful in the future. It put Noa on the part of the land where she had to stay for 10 minutes. Noa tried to move from the spot but could not and she thought to her self that. The punishment was not as bad as she was heard from the grown ups. It was not long then she was freed.

She then noticed that later she was not chosen to pick up the items as it was Wabu or Top that found the items. She decided that she wanted to prove, she was not clumsy and every time an item appeared she made sure she was nearby, so she could be the one to get it and it worked and to her delight she was chosen to take the item to the scientists and she never dropped it this time.

In the meantime Nitis was working on the dam and Tobi stayed on researching as Balun said now they badly needed the tech points towards medicine. Tobi wanted to help on the dam but since he was Adept scientist and needed to generate the tech points towards the medicines badly needed, had to stay researching. He knew why he wanted to work on the dam, was he wanted to listen to more of Nitis's stories where he came from and he wondered if it was that reason that Balun made him stay to researching. He might have slowed down production on the dam, but then again, they got a third of the way there and he thought they have done well. Balun said he was pleased at the progress made and then he thought, he might be allowed to work on the dam later.

Several hours later and Tobi noticed it was getting late and found he was disappointed not hearing more of Nitis's stories, however he was glad that they had done well on researching and had just over 15000pts towards medicine and maybe make up the rest very soon and Nitis had completed 64% on the dam. So the tribe called it a day.

TO BE CONTINUED