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Part 2 Kanteemans Tale

WHY DO YOU WISH ME TO KNOW THESE THINGS? AND WHO ARE YOU THAT I MIGHT HEAR YOU, AND I CURSE YOU THAT I SEE YOU, AND OTHERS WILL THINK I AM ILL FOR KNOWING YOU. THEY SPOKE IN CHORUS, ALL VOICES DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHER, THEY SAID THE SAME WORDS," GO TO THE FENCES EDGE, AND HUNT THE CATTLE AS IF THEY WERE IN THE WOODS. TAKE YOUR PRIZE FROM THE SETTLERS, AND FEAST WITH YOUR PEOPLE, AND THAN RELEASE THE STONES FROM THE DAMN IN THE CREEK, THAT THE FISHES SHALL SWIM TO THE POND" WHY SHALL I TAKE SETTLER'S MANCOW, ( STEERS) WHEN THEY TRADE FAIR FOR FURS AND SHINEY STONES, THE FISHES AMONG THE STREAM ARE PLENTIFUL THOSE IN THE POND ARE OF THE SETTLERS CONCERN THEN THEY SPOKE AGAIN IN CHORUS IN DIFFERENT VOICES SAYING THE SAME THING," SHE SHALL MARRY YOU, AND SPEAK OF YOU AS A COWARD, YOUR PEOPLE SHALL HUNGER AND YOUR WINES SHALL SOUR, THE CURSE YOU SPEAK SHALL BE OF YOUR COWARDICE, I SHALL APPEAR NO MORE UNTIL YOU HAVE FOLLOWED MY COMMAND!" THEN THE IMAGES DISAPPEAR INTO THE STREAM. I SAID TO MYSELF I'D BE A FOOL TO SPEAK THIS TO MY PEOPLE THEY'D SAY I WAS ILL, I DIDN'T NEED TO SPEAK THIS AS FRUSTIO AND MIFFO HAD BEEN HIDING IN THE BUSHES, TRYING TO NOT TO BE SEEN, THEY HAD HEARD AND SEEN THE WHOLE THING, AND HAD SENT SELFROTIN BACK TO OUR PEOPLE TO TELL THE TALE OF SUCH. BEFORE I COULD MAKE IT BACK TO THE RESTING AREA THEY I HEARD THE DRUMS, SOMEONE HAD CALLED US TO MEET. THEY SPOKE OF ME AS A DEMON, THEY WONDERED WHY I DIDN'T SPEAK OF THE IMAGE AND ASKED IF IT WERE THE GOD'S OF THE SETTLERS, OR WERE THEY THE GODS OF THE NATIVE MEN. HE ANSWERED THEY ARE NEITHER, THEY ARE VOICES FROM THE STREAM THAT APPEAR TO HAD A BODY. THEY MIGHT BE THE FROM OTHERLANDS, HERE TO MAKE US WAR, AND TAKE FROM BOTH THE SETTLERS AND THE NATIVES, THE WARBIRD, SPOKE ME AS BEING FEARFUL, AND WEAK, HE SAID THE MEN FROM THE WOODS SHOULD TREAT HIM AS A WHORE AND MAKE HIS WOMAN PREGNANT, AND SPEAK HIM AS THE FATHER. THEY CURSED HIM FOR DAYS UNTIL HE AND OTHERS WENT AGAIN TO THE STREAM AT ONGO.

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