CHAPTER 28 NIGHT MARES
AURORA AND PREACHER WAS FAST A SLEEP WHEN SHE WOKE UP TO SCREAMING
AND IT WAS COMING FROM PREACHER. SHE REACH OVER AND SHOOK PREACHER AND HE STOOD UP FROM DEAD SLEEP. SHE SAID WHAT IS WRONG
HUN? PREACHER HAD WOKE UP, AND SAID SOMETHING HAPPEN LONG TIME A GO, AND THE LAND OF ZOE. MY FIRST HUNTING TRIP
WITH DAD AND WE WERE ATTACK MY GROUP OF TRANASOURIS . I ALONG SURVIVE ,AND WAS LOST FOR YEAR AND HALF. IT HAPPEN BACK
WHEN I WAS 10 SEASON OLD. I THOUGHT I PUT IT OUT MY MINE ..AURORA]] I HEARD OF LAND OF ZOE, IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE A MYSTICAL
PEOPLE. HAVE YOU BEEN THERE? [PREACHER] YES ,LIVE WITH THEM FOR A YEAR. THAT’S A STORY ALL TO IT SELF. PREACHER GOT
UP WENT OUT SIDE AND COOL OFF HE WAS IN A COLD SWEAT. BEEN LONG TIME ,HE THOUGHT HE GOT IT OUT HIS MINE, NOW IT RETURN.
ONLY ONE KNEW OF PREACHER ORDEAL WAS TATERBUG ,WHEN ALL SAID HE RAN ONLY TATERBUG SAID HE TELLING THE TRUTH.
IT WAS ALMOST SUN RISE IT WAS GETTING LIGHT IN EAST AS PREACHER THREW A NEW LOG ON WARM EMBERS
OF LAST NIGHT FIRE. PREACHER THOUGHT TO HIM SELF ILL NEVER RUN ,FROM ANY THING.. SOON HE HAD NEW THOUGHTS ON HIS MINE THE
SMALL SPEAR FOR THE BOW.. [PREACHER HAD MADE ONE AND FINISH IT LAST NIGHT AND WAS WEIGHTING FOR LIGHT TO TEST IT. PREACHER
SET THERE WITH STICK POKING THE COLDS OF FIRE LIKE POKING MEMORY IN HIS MINE AS HE STIR FLASH BACKS SEEM TO COME
FORTH. MAYBE THE STORY SHOULD BE TOLD. BUT WHO WOULD BELIEVE ME? NO LET THAT DOG SLEEP. SA BOO CAME OUT AND KIND HUG PREACHER
AS TELL HIM IT OK., AND LAY ED BE SIDE HIM AS A PROTECTOR . PREACHER THOUGHT ONE DAY HE BE A MIGHTY BEAR AND A FORCE TO DEAL
WITH. I AM GLAD HE MY FRIEND . AS SUN ROSE IN THE EAST COULD HEAR PEOPLE STIR IN CAMP AND PREACHER WAS STILL
POKING THE FIRE. [AURORA CAME OUT ONE FEW TIMES SHE GET AWAY FROM BABY'S. YOU OK NOW PREACHER? PREACHER] YES I DOING FINE
NOW! BEEN A LONG TIME. I HAD THEM DREAMS COME BACK ,I THOUGHT THEY WERE GONE. ONE DAY I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT ,BUT
I AM NOT READY TO NOW. [AURORA] ANY TIME YOU CAN DO IT I WILL LISTEN TO YOU. [PREACHER] IT MEAN A LOT IF YOU DID AND BELIEVE
ME. ONLY ONE DOES IS TATERBUG. [AURORA] YOU LIVE IN LAND OF ZOE AND LEARN SOME THEIR WAYS ,IT EXPLAIN LOT THINGS ,LIKE
HOW YOU KNEW WHAT GOING TO HAPPEN BE FORE IT HAPPEN. MY COMING, THE ATTACKS OF TRANASOURIS. THE SNOW STORM BE FORE IT HIT.
YOU KNEW THERE WAS PEOPLE CLOSE TO US ,BE FORE STORM CLOUD, AND YOU KNEW WE WAS NOT ALONG ON THE RIVER, WHY YOU KEEP
LOOKING FOR SOME ONE. PREACHER] YOU GOING TO DISOWN ME NOW. LETS SAY I HAD A VISION OF WHAT TO COME. AURORA] WHAT IS TO COME.
PREACHER] I GOT FINE A 6TH CAVE FOR BEN. HE WANT BE READY TO GO WITH STORM CLOUD. THERE IS SOME ONE STRANGE TO COME. I THINK
WHAT CAUSE THE NIGHT MARES. [AURORA HEAR BABY'S CRYING SO SHE GOT GO BACK INSIDE TEEPEE.
PREACHER GETS HIS BOW AND RESTRING IT AND GETS NEW SPEAR FOR IT AND SOON WE SEE.
HE HAS THE SPEAR AND TRY TO ATTACH IT TO THE BOW STRING ,,HUUUUUUMMM NEED A NOTCH FOR BOW STRING TO FIT IN. SO PREACHER TAKES
HIS KNIFE AND CARVE A NOTCH IN TOP SPEAR SO BOW STRING WILL FIT IN IT. SO HE DID THAT TRY TO FIT IT AGAIN THIS TIME IT FIT.
HE SLOWLY DREW IT BACK TO HALF STRENGTH AND LET GO. IT WENT LONG WAYS, BUT TAIL OF SPEAR SEEM TO DROP SOME WHICH MADE POINT
GO UP AND HIT THE BANK SIDE WAYS. MAYBE IT WORK RIGHT FULL STRENGTH SO HE TRIED IT AGAIN FULL POWER ,AND SWISH OF IT WENT
. THIS TIME THE TAIL DROP AND IT WENT IN ALL KINDS DIRECTIONS .. PREACHER HUUM THIS NOT WORKING RIGHT NEED FLY LIKE A BIRD
. HUUUUUMMMM LIKE A BIRD. MAY BIRD FEATHERS WILL HELP IT. SO PREACHER GOT OUT HIS SLING AND LOOK FOR A BIRD. THERE WAS THAT
LOUD MOUTH BLUE BIRD THAT WOKE EVERY BODY UP.. SO PREACHER TOOK SHOT AT HIM WITH THE SLING .. AND GOOD HIT FEATHERS FLEW
AS BIRD WENT DOWN. .PREACHER GOT ALL FEATHERS HE COULD FINE AND PULL REST FROM BIRD WINGS AND TAIL. NOW HOW ATTACH THE FEATHERS.,
PREACHER LOOK AT FEATHERS AND THE SPEAR AND THOUGHT HAS TWO SIDE THE FEATHERS ONLY NEED ONE SIDE. SO PREACHER
TOOK KNIFE AND SHAVE OFF ONE SIDE OF FEATHERS. NOW HOW ATTACH THEM TO SPEAR .MAYBE I CAN CUT TRENCHES IN SPEAR THE FIT RIGHT
IN.. PREACHER TOOK SMALL PIECE OF BLACK STONE AND CUT THREE TRENCH'S ALONG TOP SPEAR 3 INCHES LONG AND FIT THE FATHERS
IN THE GROVES , THEY FIT GOOD .PREACHER TOOK SMALL VINES AND WRAP THE GROVES TO HOLD FATHERS IN PLACE .. WHEN DONE HE TESTED
AGAIN ,, AND TO HIS SURPRISE IT WENT STRAIGHT AND LOT FASTER. HUUUM PREACHER THOUGHT , IT WENT SO FAST I ALMOST COULD
NOT SEE IT. HE WENT AND CHECK THE SPEAR AND SEE HOW DEEP IT WENT INTO THE DIRT BANK. TO PREACHER AMAZEMENT .IT WENT IN GROWN
HALF LENGTH OF SPEAR .THE BLACK ROCK POINT WAS NO DAMAGE AT ALL SO USE AGAIN. FEATHERS MADE BIG DIFFERENCE TO IT ,FLY LIKE
A BIRD NOW. PREACHER TRY AGAIN THIS TIME WITH MORE DISTANCE ,AND AGAIN IT WENT FAST TO MARK AND STUCK IN GROWN. ALMOST AS
DEEP AS FIRST TIME . THIS TIME ONE FEATHERS CAME LOOSE .SO PREACHER KNEW HE HAD IMPROVE THIS .SO PREACHER USE THIN PIECES
OF RAW HIDE[ NOT CURE] TO TIE FEATHERS ON WITH. RAW HIDE WILL DRAW TIGHTER WHEN DRY. SO PREACHER PUT CLOSE TO FIRE TO DRY
HIDE. HOUR OR SO THEY WAS DRY .SO PREACHER TRY IT AGAIN AND SWISH IT WAS GONE AND TO THE MARK , PREACHER WENT AND GOT IT.
AND AGAIN IT WENT DEEP IN DIRT BANK. PREACHER GOT IT WENT BACK TO FIRE AND THEN TATERBUG CAME OVER TO FIRE ,HE BEEN WATCHING
PREACHER SHOOT THE SPEAR . HE SAID HUUM IT FLY LIKE A SPARROW ONLY TATER COULD NOT SAY THAT SP PART AND CAME OUT AS ARROW.
PREACHER LOOK AT TATERBUG SAID GOOD NAME FOR IT. PREACHER HAD SOME IDEAL ON HOW TO IMPROVE THE BOW SOME BUT IT GOOD AS IS.
WHEN PREACHER WAS NOT LOOKING TATER BUG PICK UP BOW .AND DREW IT BACK AS TO SHOOT A ARROW AND WHEN HE TURN IT LOOSE IT GOT
HIM ON WRIST ,AND HE WAS DANCING LIKE PREACHER DID YESTERDAY. PREACHER WHEN USE BOW GOT WARE A WRIST PAD LIKE THIS OR TAKE
HIDE OFF. HAHAHAH PREACHER I AM GOING TO MAKE MORE ARROWS AND TRY TO MAKE IT BETTER THAN IS .. NEED SOMETHING TO HOLD
FATHERS ON BETTER. TATER BUG EVER TRY DRY FISH GUTS. PREACHER NO WHY? TATER BUG I FOUND OUT IF CLEAN THEM OUT AND TWIST THEM
AND LET DRY MAKE STRONG TIES. AND VERY SMALL.. I DO LOT TIES WITH THEM WHEN GOT FISH., PREACHER SAID GLAD YOU SAID FISH WE
NEED CHECK TRAP TODAY. PREACHER WE CHECK THEM THIS AFTERNOON AND HOPE WE GOT SOME FOR WOMEN .TATERBUG I HEARD SOME ONE SCREAM
THIS MORNING. PREACHER IT WAS ME .THAT DREAM CAME BACK WHEN I WAS LOST. TATERBUG O THAT CURSE WAS BACK . PREACHER YA AND WAS
SO REAL AGAIN. LIKE RELIVING IT OVER AND OVER TIME AFTER TIME. TATERBUG.. WHAT DOES AURORA KNOW ABOUT THIS? SHE NOW KNOW I
HAVE VISIONS OF THINGS TO COME. SHE THOUGHT THAT OUT WHEN SHE LEARN I HAVE BEEN TO LAND OF ZOE. SHE HEARD OF THEM TOO.
TATERBUG WONDER IF THEY DID SOMETHING TO YOU WHEN YOU WAS OUT AND NOT AWAKE. WELL WHEN I WOKE UP HAD A WRAP ON MY
HEAD . THEY KEEP TAKING IT OFF AND PUT NEW ONE ON. TOOK LONG TIME TO HEAL. HAD NO HAIR ON HEAD. THEN VISION STARTED TO COME
TO ME. I GOT AWAY FROM THEM AND WAS GOING HOME I THOUGHT . A EARTH QUAKE HIT AND WAS BAD I WAS SO
FRIGHTEN, I HID FOR DAYS. WHEN I LOOK LOT LAND SINK INTO THE BIG WATER AND I WAS ON LAND THAT WAS STILL ABOVE THE WATER.
I KEEP HAVING VISIONS OF WALKING TO SUN IN MORNING AND AWAY FROM IT IN AFTER NOON HOW FOUND MY WAY BACK HOME. [TATERBUG]
WHY I NEVER QUESTION YOU ON WHAT YOU THINK IS COMING ,I FOUND OUT YOU ALWAYS RIGHT. SO PREPARED FOR IT. PREACHER I GOT
FINE BEN A CAVE. HE WANT BE ABLE TO GO WHEN STORM CLOUD FOLLOW THE BISON. 5 IS NOT ENOUGH. NEED 6 WE ONE SHORT
,BEN AND I DID NOT LOOK MUCH AFTER FINE THE 5 CAVES IF WE DID WE FOUND THE SIX ONE. PREACHER YOU THINK THERE IS A SIX
ONE? TATERBUG]] PREACHER I HAD VISION OF ONE UP THE CREEK FROM THERE. BUT ALSO HAD VISION OF BIG BEAR THERE TO. AND WE FIGHT
OVER A STRANGE CHILD. KEEP THIS QUIET, THEY RUN ME OFF IF THEY KNEW. WHY I NEED MAKE MORE ARROWS. MAY NEED THEM. TATERBUG.
DO NOT TELL ME MORE/ I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR MY DEATH ..PREACHER YOU LIVE A GOOD WHILE LONGER HAHA. WE CATCH FISH TO DAY
I WANT ALL THE GUTS TO MAKE TIES FROM. TATERBUG YOU GOT THEM. NOW GO SEE HOW BEN IS DOING. TATERBUG MEAN TO HEAR HE CAN NOT
GO WITH STORM CLOUD. PREACHER WINK AND SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT. TATERBUG I GOT TO GO THINK HAPPY JO IS MOVING AROUND . PREACHER
YA BABY WOKE HER UP SHE BREST FEEDING IT., TATERBUG YOU THINK SO?? TATERBUG WENT TO TEEPEE AND HAPPYJO WAS UP AND HAD BABY
AND BREST FEEDING IT. HAPPY JO BABY WOKE ME UP .IT WAS HUNGRY. TATERBUG YA ,I KNEW THAT, HAPPY JO LOOK AT TATERBUG IN STRANGE
WAY.
PREACHER STUCK HEAD IN AND TOLD AURORA I AM GOING TO CHECK ON BEN. PREACHER WENT TO BEN TEE
PEE AND MADE NOISE OUT SIDE AND SUNSHINE CAME OUT. [PREACHER] HOW BEN DOING? SUNSHINE HE WORRY HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO WHEN
TRIBE GOES TO FOLLOW THE BISON. [PREACHER] MAY I TALK TO HIM? SUNSHINE SAYS YOU CHIEF IT ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE
AND WE LOVE YOUR WAY OF LOOKING OUT FOR US. PREACHER WENT IN TEEPEE AND SAID HOW IT GOING BEN. [BEN] WELL I THINK I MIGHT
BE LEFT BEHIND. PREACHER I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU BEHIND .. I THINK I CAN FINE ANOTHER CAVE UP THERE FOR YOU. BEN EYES LIGHT
UP LIKE A LOAD HAD BEEN REMOVE FROM HIM. NOT MY WAY TO LEAVE A FRIEND BEHIND. SO DO NOT WORRY MY FRIEND. YOU GOT LOT
FOOD OR NEED ANY THING? LET ME KNOW WHAT I AM HERE FOR LOOK OUT FOR YOU. BEN YOU ALWAYS BEEN THERE ,I THINK STORM CLOUD
MAY NEED TO LEARN FROM YOU. PREACHER] HE GOT IRISH NOW .IRISH WILL HELP HIM MAKE GOOD DECISION NOW. ONE DAY HE BE CHIEF OF
YOUR TRIBE .I THINK. SOON PREACHER LEFT BEN TEE PEE AND WENT BACK TO HIS IN TIME MEET ELSIE AND RED DEER COMING TO FEED BABY'S.
PREACHER ,WELCOME RED DEER AND ELSIE TO MY TEE PEE. COME ON IN AND SET. RED DEER HOW THINGS WITH YOU ? I JUST CAME FROM
BEN TEEPEE AND HE WAS WORRY HE BE LEFT BE HIND. I TOLD HIM DO NOT WORRY ,HE COME WITH US. RED DEER] THAT’S GOOD HEARD
LOT GRUMBLING THAT STORM CLOUD WAS GOING TO LEAVE HIM. PREACHER] I NEVER LEAVE A FRIEND BEHIND. NOT GOOD LEAVE PEOPLE BEHIND
SHOWS LIKE CONCERN OF PEOPLE WELFARE. YOU GOT IRISH, HE GOOD MAN. RED DEER WE MAY BE NEEDING NEW CHIEF IF HE DOES NOT DO RIGHT.
[PREACHER] I AM STILL CHIEF OF ALL. HE DO RIGHT. SOON ELSIE WAS DONE AND WAS AT FLY OF TEEPEE AND RED DEER SAID .I AM GLAD
WE DECIDED TO COME WITH YOU. PREACHER SAID .I AM GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US. THEN ELSIE AND RED DEER WENT OUT TEEPEE. [AURORA]
SOUND LIKE LITTLE DISSATISFACTION IN TRIBE WITH MR STORM CLOUD. PREACHER] I KNOW. SOME ONE TOLD BEN HE WAS GOING TO BE LEFT
BEHIND .IF STORM CLOUD THIS COULD BE HIS UNDOING. PREACHER WENT OUT SIDE ,CLOSE TO NOON AND TIME TO CHECK TRAPS. HE
STOP BY TATERBUG TEE PEE AND GOT HIM AND THEY WENT TO PULL UP TRAP. WHEN GOT THERE .PREACHER PULL UP THE TRAP AND THERE
WAS TEN FISH IN IT. PREACHER AND TATERBUG DIVED IT UP IN THREE GROUPS. AND EXTRA WENT TO SA BOO. PREACHER ,REMEMBER I WANT
THE GUTS FOR TIE FEATHERS ON WITH. TATERBUG OK WE GET THEM FOR YOU.. PREACHER CLEAN THE FISH AND CLEAN OUT THE FISH GUTS AND
HUNG THEM UP AND PUT A TWIST ON THEM AND SURE ENOUGH MADE A SMALL LINE AND PREACHER TIED KNOT ON EACH END SO WOULD NOT
UNRAVEL. PREACHER DID ALL TEN THAT WAY. AND TOMORROW WE HAVE DRY STRING TO WORK WITH. WHEN PREACHER GOT THREW HE NOTICE IRISH
STANDING THERE ..WHAT IS WRONG IRISH? IRISH] I JUST HEARD STORM CLOUD SAY HE WAS GOING TO KILL YOU TO NIGHT. [PREACHER] WHERE
DID HE SAY THIS. WHEN BEN SAID HE WAS GOING WITH YOU. BECAUSE YOU WOULD NOT LEAVE A FRIEND. [PREACHER] IRISH WHERE YOU STAND
ON THIS., IRISH WITH YOU. HOW MANY HE HAS TO HELP HIM [ IRISH] NONE I KNOW OF, HE SAID IT BE EASY YOU TO TRUSTING. EASY
HE THINKS. PREACHER PICK UP BOW AND NOTCH THE ARROW AND STORM CLOUD TEE PEE 75 FEET FROM HIM AS STORM CLOUD STEP OUT PREACHER
CALL HIS NAME AND SHHHRIIIP. ,AND PREACHER SAY TO IRISH YOU CHIEF NOW. I WILL NOT PUT UP WITH ANY, [TREACHERY] THOSE PLOT
AGAINST ME PLOT THEIR DEATH .[PREACHER] ALREADY KNEW STORM CLOUD HAD TURN ON HIM. HAD A VISION ,IRISH JUST CONFIRM IT. [PREACHER
CALL A MEETING OF TRIBE. WHEN ALL THERE .[PREACHER] I WAS TOLD BY FRIEND THAT HEARD STORM CLOUD PLAIN TO KILL ME IN MY SLEEP
TO NIGHT. WELL I LOOK HIM RIGHT IN EYE AS I KILL HIM., YOU COME TO MY TEE PEE BETTER BE AS FRIEND . I WILL KNOW IF YOU NOT.
ANY WHO PLOT AGAINST ME PLOT THEIR ON DEATH. SO BE IT WITH STORM CLOUD. YOUR NEW CHIEF IS IRISH. I FINE HIM BE A FAIR MAN
AND MAN OF TRUTH. AND GOOD LEADER. ANY WHO SLIP IN MAN HOME WITH PLOT TO KILL HIM IN HIS SLEEP ,IS NO BETTER THAN A SNAKE
IN GRASS. SO BE IT.
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