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Niq’i Wat’a: Hunts & Government
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The air was dense with condensation, anticipation, and most importantly, well, heat. A wild boar sleeps softly during the midday heat. Muffled steps can be heard in the far distance, they quicken to a run, now a sprint. The boar tries to run but by that time it is all too late. 2 men wearing tunics and breechcloths jump out from behind a bush and spear the boar through the back. The new island was plentiful in boars, and while most of them were kept in pens and farmed, they were still hunted for sport. Adrenaline slowly dissipated through the bodies of the 2 men as they carried the heavy creature through the rainforest. Carefully they looked out for puma’s every step they took, even things out of the corner of their eye were noticed. Once they got back to the village off the coast of the island, the change was obvious, marvelous structures and architecture made of just made or wood, mud, and straw. Docs booming with anchovy filled nets and sun tanned sailors. The gleaming sea bounces off onto the sand and tree’s leaves as the hunters carry the hog to the sacrifice pedestal, they pray and say thanks before returning to their homes and having dinner. The government has them do gruelling work as tax, but allocates free food for everyone at the end of the day. Both men and women have to work, while women often do more delicate work, and men often do more physically demanding tasks, the opposites can also be true though. Food is prepared by the young adults in the village kitchen with a hearth and a hot stone. Water also had to be dived out each day, children and women coming first and then men. It was always at the water well where the higher ups had their discussion alongside the townsfolk who were taking breaks. During breaks children often played with a ball made of fiber filled pig skin that was sealed with tree rubber, doing a game where they passed the ball back and forth. Adults often hunted or made jewelry out of seashells. When it was time to get back to work the council blew their trumpets and the people went back to work, new mothers were always with their babies, mothers with older children were either nannies for multiple children or had nannies and worked themselves. The two islands communicated by sail boat, the Wat’a people were used to sea traveling, and used the celestial map as a guide. The 2 islands shared farm animals, food, often workers, and they ran with the same government under a Federal Tribalist Meritocracy. There is a chief of each island, who share and consult each other or their own council of their own citizens in their island. And so, the wheel of time turns on the sister islands, and may god, or whatever is up there, be in their favor, and may the other people in this world, be as peaceful as them.