Chapter 26

Orla’s new baby girl was the image of her mom and when she had her 2sd birthday decided to name her Itchi and she soon became poperler with the other children. Itchi had a lot of personality and was just like her mother when she was little. She was curious about everything around the island, so curious that she always got caught out and ended up been ‘It’ in the tag game. This was she never always concentrated who was ‘It’ or that never saw he/she that was ‘It’ sneaking up behind her to tag her and once again was ‘It’ She thought to herself, I always get caught out

The scientists all working hard at earning the tech points and the builders still working hard at clearing which was now 73% cleared and tech points needed was another 10000 then was 9000 and progressing. The guiding hand wondered what will come first the gong or the clearing of the ocean. It was neck to neck. Both teams were working hard, the builders and the scientists. However with the items the children were finding, the guiding hand now had the idea what will be solved first and that would be the algae eating-fish would soon be fully researched which now the scientist had now 88888pts and with 2 more items would make it more than enough to buy level 3 of advance farming.

The algae-eating fish is located by the master farmers.
The children found 2 items one common and one rare and that gives the scientist 91232 and was able to get advance technology in farming. The guiding hand pointed one of the farmers which was Balun if the algae was in the lagoon and Balun could locate the algae-eating fish and hunted for it and making sure that the fish was kept alive and would not wiggle away as fish do, carefully calmed it as to hypnotise it by stroking it’s head to calm it and then was able to carry it to the ocean and he put it down into the water and the algae-eating fish swim off and began to eat the algae, but did not think one was enough. The other master farmers also located the algae-eating fish and which were 3 more of them, did the same as Balun taking care to calm the fish as they took them to the ocean. Each farmer had their own method of calming the fish. After catching at least 11 of the algae, soon the fish had eaten and cleared all the algae and from now on these fish would continue to keep the ocean crystal clear. This was a time to celebrate and all the villagers came to the beach to celebrate and even Orla dived into the ocean celebrating. The children celebrating for a short time, then went off to play tag and little Itchi was ‘It’ again as she forgot it was tag time and was caught out again. Itchi thought Oh no, not again. Then Itchi was again in the next game as she did not tag any one in the last, so she was still ‘It’. Itchi was now more determined not to be ‘It’ again the next time it was tag and was going to try and concentrate more on the game in future.

Laurence, Noa, Mucha and Orla have babies.
Laurence was 19 when the ocean was cleared and thought it was time to have a baby and she ask the guiding hand for a suitor and thought that Wabu would be good and she liked Wabu and want indoors as villagers do.

Then Noa who was 25 also had a baby and since the guiding hand had no control of who she was going to mate did not see until it was too late and, it was Nitis she choose and the same again with Mucha who also had a baby. Nitis was the oldest male and all the females tend to go indoors with the oldest male, this is where the guiding hand comes in to try and set some rules for the villagers. This is so that all villagers don’t look the same, unless the guiding hand does not mind all villagers looking alike that is.

Laurence could not wait to show her mother her new baby and Orla was very pleased to see her beautiful grandchild and though the baby was lovely. They both walked together mother and daughter to the beach and stood together, talking and showing their babies the ocean. Later Mucha and Noa joined them on the beach showing the baby the ocean.

More to be done the only things now the villagers needed was to start work on the clothing hut, However as there was not enough research material to work with, needed the tech points towards that and also the builders were still working on scraping away the moss. They already removed 79% of the moss and decided to leave the clothing hut to last and as the population had now reach 25. The next established target the guiding hand had wanted. The villagers did not need another hut until the population reach about 35 and so the builders had not made plans yet. The villagers knew more children would be born in the future and already 4 more babies had been born and the villagers loved to have children to bring up, if they wanted the population to grow and prosper. The tribe will let you know what the ancient place reveals and if and when the find the last part of the gong.

To be continued