Chapter 21
Mucha did have another child who was a little boy who she named Tomal who had red hair like his mom and at the same time Orla named her son Guapi had brown hair.

Tobi becomes an Esteemed Elder

Tobi had already mastered 2 skills in building and science and almost master in farming. After watering the crops, Tobi realised he had also become a master farmer. The villagers thought he deserved the rank of an elder and made a totem and engraved his name on it. The villagers celebrated with Tobi for becoming the villagers first Esteemed Elder and congratulated him for mastering the 3 skills. Tobi was only 27 and the youngest elder to get this rank and thought he was a real prodigy and they were very proud to have this young male in their tribe and they hoped that others would follow his success in the future.

Laurence was now 13 and was looking forward to her 14th birthday and kept telling every body she would be 14 soon. She thought that as soon as she is 14 she would help to remove the thorny briers as she would watch the builders cutting them away. Laurence always made sure she kept her distance as she watched so she would not get in the way. As she was watching one of the children called out lets play tag and she ran off to join them running round the village in the tag game.

The scientists decided to hold on to the tech points until they got enough for second and third level in culture, a round 10,000pts and then they would have a choice whether to buy farming in case the food run out, or culture if they have plenty of food in the bin. The tribe knew bad events could happen that would use up the food and leaving them none. This is why the scientist kept their options open. So far the tribe had it good and when one of them mentioned this to Tobi who was the youngest elder thought this was a wise idea and kept his fingers crossed so that a bad event would not happen to steal the food or technology. He hoped that the guiding hand who had control of their lives would keep with them, so that the events would not happen too soon and the children would get the items quickly. The guiding hand promised that, he/she would keep them in pause when he or she is away, encase a bad event might happen. While they work hard at gaining them points the scientists should make enough tech points and the children find the collectables in time. The tribe so far had just one bad event when they woke one morning to a soupy fog and was shocked that some food had been stolen. Luckily enough just 200 food was gone so the tribe still had 2880 food instead of the 3080. So the villagers did not worry about it and got on with their jobs.

The builders had cleared 32% of the thorny briers and Noa had completed 18% of the hospital as this had helped her to reach the status of adept builder. The tribe now had 2 master builders and 2 adept builders.

As all this was going on Orla had another baby bringing the population to 19.

To be continued