Chapter 7

Five Isola years later several villagers died of old age and once again Luna was first to have a baby, even though the guiding hand had her down for farming. Some who died were age 80 and most were age in their late 70ties by then. The population dropped down to 108 leaving room for few more babies and to the surprised to Nishi, the guiding hand let Nishi a mate and soon was holding a baby in her arms. Before that Sake at the age of 42 also had a baby and so did Unagi who was now age 39, the mothers all walked to the beach showing the babies to the ocean and they talked about old times. They wondered if any of their children would be like them and run to the same rules in the games they use to play. They were made up now they would soon have little tiny feet running round the island again to play with little Joop. Little Joop would have to wait two more years before the babies were old enough to play with him.

After 2 years and the babies were 2 Sake named her son Leiko, he did not like swimming and would run away when ever he want near the ocean of the pond. He had a mop of brown hair just like Lenok his dad was Nonolo who had a mop of black hair. Unagi named her daughter Asia who had long auburn hair. Luna named her second baby Tatau who had black hair and Sake had another little girl who she named, Mali and also the same age Unagi had a pinked haired little girl who she named Onawa.
As son as the 4 children joined Joop to play and Joop was made up to have new friends to play with him and because he was the oldest, set the rules that Sake and Unagi taught him about a tag game and soon like their parents soon was running round playing the tag game.

As the population was down and therefore Sake wanted to have more children by this time she was 47 going on 49 and she mated with Nonolo again and she was delighted to be a mother of triplets. Sake had triplet girls with light brown hair and she named them, Chimba, City and Chirita. Sake was age 49 just before the triplets were 2 Isola years old.
Unagi had another baby after the triplets had turned age 2 and the twins had babies at the same time, one years later just before she turned 50, Sake had mated with Jak as the guiding hand had trained Jak to be a parent as the population was falling fast not that every one was dieing of old age and there were now just a few females in their late 40ties Sake was now age 49 and had her last baby at the same time Ima, Soda, Topa had twins and Baba had a baby.

When Sake’s baby was age two he was a beautiful blond baby and she named him Gin, He had it up like a Mohican hair style and he looked very cute, and he liked playing. If you watched him in the village, would be very jumpy and liked running away a lot. He did not like learning and sometimes refused to listen and learn to anyone. Even if the guiding hand tried to teach him to heal someone would keep on saying no rather than learn. To top it off he had no skills whatever. The guiding hand would have work cut out in teaching Gin something when he was old enough to work. However his cute looks would soften any ones heart, and probably getaway with it. Lala’s daughters had auburn hair and the names were Kiti and Pana. Ima's son had red hair named him Ahi, and Soda named her daughter Aika the two children were a year older than Gin at age of three. Topa named her twins also age three, Papa and Papaya. Gin had someone he liked to play with who was his age Baba’s daughter named Hula, who liked dancing, She disliked the colour blue and wondered why her mom insisted tying a blue bow in her short dark brown hair. She was glad her dress was green, yet it still had blue in it and when she was old enough to buy clothes would buy a black dress. All the children were all playing tag while the moms looked on and Lulu who was watching was nursing triplets. The triplets brought the population to 115 again. Lulu was age 38. Two years older than Huma. the youngest adult in the village. This is why the guiding hand made sure they had more babies before the were too old. Huma was not nursing a baby and she just carried on working. Yet she often waited for someone which was Jak. Since the population was now at 115 could not have a baby yet. There were 22 females that were in their 40ties and two of them in their second part of their 30ties there was by now 30 children running around. 5 of the villagers were elderly. It was time to take Jak from parenting now, as every female had a least 1 baby in the village. Therefore what was promised and, it would be fair for the next generation, a chance to have children, when they were old enough to do so.

Sake and Nishi were age 53, Unagi were age 51, and Nanu was age 50. Jak and the twins were now age 46. The twins were still young enough to have babies. Jake was now Adept parent. Kaana was nursing a baby who was fathered by Jake, after someone died. Jak was going to be a master in 3 skill as he was already a master builder and soon would master parenting and farming at the age of 46. It was a pity that there was no room to make totems so he would not be recognised as an esteemed elder. As Nisi was now age 53 and would not be having more children the guiding hand decided to grant her wish and to carry on practising parenting until she reach master, then she could go farming. The same with Jak.

Jak rings the gong

It was time to ring the gong and Jak was chosen, and as the villagers observed the gong found Jak was lucky as it granted food and the crops grew. Soon all the villagers hurried to harvest the out of season crops.

To be continued