Chapter 6

Nanu who was at the age of 14 had been studying the herbs round the island had progressed to Adept Doctor and now that he been training for so many years, he thought he might like to farm as he liked fish. The guiding hand was not around when he decided to start a new job and got someone to show how fishing was done. It was Pana who was one of Sake’s friends as Sake was still adept farmer but, Sake was learning to be a parent at the moment and took to teaching children as she was now adept parent at the age of 21. Pana was a master farmer and was please to teach Nanu the art of fishing and told him to watch closely and he watches how Pana dived into the ocean and smoothly located a fish and whoosh, wham like a true hunter, grabbed the fish. To Nanu it looked so easy and Pana said now you try and even though he was a lot faster swimmer in the ocean than on the ground was able to dive and for a fish he saw and just like, Pana, whoosh wham, but the fish got away and he wondered what he was doing wrong.

Pana said you got the right idea, but it can’t be achieved over night. ‘It takes years to master the art of farming, but don’t give up. I’ll take this fish to the food bin and you just keep practising and I’ll come back and see how you’re getting on.’
Nanu wanted so much to catch a fish before Pana returned and he kept trying and the fish kept eluding him, whoosh, wham, missed, the shake of head ‘no’ Right here I go again and whoosh wham and missed again, and then whoosh wham and found he came up with a fish. ‘I did it, I did it, and I caught my first fish!’ just as Pana returned and said well done, Nanu.’ Pana said very pleased of his success. ‘And now you have some skill in farming, so the next time you fish should not take as long to catch one.’

Nanu careful not to lose it as he nearly did in his excitement when he first caught it. After Nanu had succeeded and sometimes failing to catch a fish, thought it was time to learn how to plant the crops and water them. So he had now become a trainee farmer. And since the guiding hand had still not looked at what he had accomplished, was determined to make it to master farmer before that. What he did not know was that he would be a master farmer before the guiding hand looked in and by then would be in his early 30ties. At the moment he was 19.

24 Isola years had gone by and no new babies were born the mushrooms were left to die and the collectables that sprung up got washed away again with the winds and tides during the last 12 years that went by. The villagers were missing the laughter of the children that use to run round the village and the tag games they use to play. When the next generation of children is born, was going to be sooner than the villagers thought.

All the friends now all made their separate ways in their careers and Nishi took several Isola years before she had mastered building and since the village was still fully populated decided to learn to fish and it was if the guiding hand had answered her wishes at the age of 41, pushed he towards getting her first skill up on the bar as a trainee farmer. Then there was a death Zola who had been an elder for 24 years, she was age 77 when she died and the first baby born was to Huma and Masao. She was age 30 and had fully mastered parenting. This was when she had rang the gong of wonder at the age of 16, and the gong granted her wisdom and she suddenly had all the knowledge about parenting and everything there is to know about children. There was no hesitation on Luna and she filled the place with a baby, before any one else could get a look in. The tribe congratulated Luna and Luna said I was given this gift of knowledge and I promised to carry out this gift in which was granted to me, with my whole heart.

It would be another 5 years before more children be born and little Joop was only age 2, who Luna had named was the only child in the village and he always felt a little bit lonely when he had no one to play with. Joop would be age 7 when he had other children to play with. But the guiding hand kept him busy picking the mushrooms round the village. Sake and sometimes Unagi would tell him stories. Sake would tell him all about the games they played and taught him about the rules and how to play tag. However Joop was a bit sad that he had no one to play this tag game with him and he wished the guiding hand would bring in some children for him to play with.

To be continued