[color:#330033][i][b]Teens!

Because the ocean teems with fish, there is little illness and many doctors, the huts are in good shape and the orchard is well dressed and bursting with friut, the teenagers of The City have little to do, unless they themselves take intersrt in learning a trade.
Their school years are now over and yet they are still too young to wed and have children.
So, daily, a small band of teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 congregate at the Village Fire, laying about and watching the clouds float by, refusing to be moved by the annoyed looks of their elders.
Finally, I had enough.
So, with baby Elf in my arms, and since my second eldest son Koro is one of the lazy bones, I marched my 19 year redhead boy into the Alchemy, to begin his training.

His younger sister, Plum, is now a Master Sciencist and yet, Koro still cannot tell the different between a TigerLily and a Cactus.
And so began the end of the Lay-About Teens.
Koro made his first potion.
One part TigerLily. One part Black Orchid, One part Cactus.
The excerise portion.

A year later, we found a crate of coffee beans. I brewed them up and after the tribe "worked until they dropped," our young ones are now adept and masters in their trades. Koro has founded his older brother and younger sister as Scienist....

....Chief Stronge did not have such a problem with his daughter, Mocha.
Both he and his wife, Lady Tiji, never allowed Mocha to receive special treatment because she was the Chief’s daughter.
She studied with the other children and was mentored by her Mama in the Alchemy. But her father wanted Mocha to know the full workings of the village, and thus, Mocha also learned the skills of medical, building, farming and until the day she began a Mama, Mocha could be found telling stories to the younger children.
Mocha’s daughter, Honey was just two years old when her great-grandmother, Paka, the Master Builder, polished off the rough white stone into a smooth white pearl. After it was clean, washed and polished, Paka was given the honour as the eldest villiager, switched the Black Pearl from the Great Claw with the White Pearl and then slowly walked up the Ramp, to place the third and final stone into the Grand Door.
This Door had barred the villiagers from the Cave and once the here Gems were in place, they were really keys that opened the Grand Door, revealing greater grandur.
Inside was a Grand Hall, a Hall of awe and wonderful. One could not help but wonder what it was it’s use. On the Center Wall was a Protrait of an ancient Royal couple.
Cheif Strong notice a large Sundial. He turned it and slowly as if in a dream, the ancient figures stood before the whole tribe and told the their story and how our people came to these shores over a thousend years ago.
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Edited by MochaJew (11/11/08 11:32 PM)
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