Chapter 7

Part two

North shore

I am Tiare and well be age 14 tomorrow and will have to find a job to do. When I was ten years old was rescued from the ocean in a barrel with two other kids that were my age. My baby sister Isi was put in a barrel and we lost touch until recently. The kids that came with me are Pogo and Ashby, we have remained very close and have never really been close to any one else. It was Pogo's’s idea to send a massage by bird post. Pogo who is a red haired male trained a parrot and we choose to name her Lau. (See chapter 4) I was delighted to find that Isi my baby sister was still alive and well after I got a return massage. Ashby who is a lot shyer than me and Pogo were a bit upset when I said I might go and find my baby sister, as she always tended to relied on me and did not want to be left on her own.
Ashby said, ‘Please don’t go, what well I do without you?’
I realised Ashby felt somewhat insecure, because of what happened after losing her parents many years ago and I was her only link of that time after we were put in a barrel for our safety. This is my story this will just be short

The 3 of us were huddled together, we were 10 years old. Ashby who was more upset than the three of us would not stop crying. I went and put my arms round her trying to comfort her. Pogo who was the bravest of the three of us, kept looking out towards the ocean and then he called out look I can see a turtle, we all stood up and we called out in excitement seeing this large turtle (See chapter 5). The turtle then did a strange thing it started to push the barrel and we squealed with delight at this. The turtle gave us a funny look and I decided to call it Arthur, I don’t know why but it seemed like a name that would suit him. I believed that my sister would be able to talk to animals as she had some kind of gift, even tough at the time she was only 3 when we parted.

After we saw land the turtle left us and soon was picked up by the northern tribe, we did not understand the language, but we later found out we were on Isola a magical kind of island that many things could happen and even the chief who had some magical powers that could magically create food every 24 hours and give lectures to children that gave us certain skills that somehow suddenly become skilled. I have two skills I leant after the lectures which were medicine and construction. As the tribe do not need builders after all the huts and the statue has been done, I probably study medicine.

This is why we remain together and as Ashby had not picked up the Isolan language as she found it not easy as me and Pogo. Pogo and I had picked up words here and there, but Ashby even though she was cleaver at a lot of things languages was not one of them. This is one of the reasons why she was afraid of me leaving her. I promised her that Pogo would look after her or, we could all go together to find my sister one day. Ashby agreed and said she would help to build a raft, as she to have picked up construction after the chief’s lectures.

‘To morrow we be 14,’ said Ashby, ‘so we can start work to the morrow, so we better retire now,’
‘Yes we better and we can start making plans to build this raft.’ I said.
Pogo said, ‘I don’t think the elders will allow us to leave after the raft is done, as we are still too young,’
‘But I want to find my kid sister and surly they must allow us this and if they don’t then we will go and see the chief for permission. Lets us retire now as it’s starting to rain and we first celebrate of coming workable age to morrow, then we will think what to do. I said.
We then went to our huts for the night.

To be continued