15000 Y.ago_Part 2

15000 Y.ago_Part 2
Dark Cloud was thus named because she was born with a bushy tuft on the top of her head, later she grew long straight shinny black hairs that you had to brush a bit away to get a look at two magnificent eyes,deep and profoundly black, a kind and sweet look on the outside world.I think we loved each other from the start, her dark look into my blue one as we played together we tasted our skin with the tip of our tongue and rubed our noses when alone,she smelled good and as seasons went by we were involving ourselves into our love and sex playing so much that the entire community came to known about it.Sometimes, rather often now that I think of it, Running Deer would join us, he was one season older than I and Dark and friendly enough to be accepted as a sex play mate by Dark and as hunting companion by me, we appreciated each other, Run was smart, slow and thoughtful in his talk, on the contrary I was fast talking, saying what I felt outright but I doubted all things and experiences made by others .I didn't mind his sex playing with Dark since all kids in our camp indulged in sex experiments in their early years, this didn't bother me, we kept friendly relations and we both had sex plays with Dark on several occasions,she seemed to enjoy those happenings as Run and I tried to please her as much as we could. Run asked me once_"How does she look to you when she gets carried away and her face expresses delight in sex play"_"She looks like the prettiest girl I ever seen,Run".He agreed nodding his head and kept on_"I overheard Hard Stone and her mother talking low about Dark, he wants to take her as his wife when she reach twelve"_"Oh noooo,what did she answer??Small Fire doesn't like me, you know,what did she say?"_"She said it would be a good thing for Dark and that she would talk to her daughter to prepare her for that event"_"I would rather die than see that"_"I know that, High, and you're gonna die too".Two suns after that conversation I got to see Dark in private and asked her if she knew about the deal between her mother and the chief, she told me she was made aware of the futur by Small Fire and she told me not to oppose Hard Stone as it would mean certain death for me.I screamed in pain but she hushed me, she said that she couln't stand a life without me._"so please High, survive no matter what happens,I won't be alive if you leave this world".We argued for a while but I stopped when I saw distress in her eyes._" Please,High my love,please....(and then lower,crying)...please".I didn't know what I was to do but I was sure I would take my stand again, if the lion didn't get me, Hard Stone woudn't either and I started to think about a way out.

15 000 Years ago

I was born in a small tribe of hunters roaming about the northern part of a country that now is named Spain.
My father's name was Two Spears and my mother was called Red Moon, Two Spears disapeared
during a hunting trip that he took with Hard Stone,our chief, and his two nephews; Long Arrow and Fast Fist. At that time I was four or five and Red moon was around sixteen winters, we both were adopted by Hard Stone who spent his time making me regret my dad's gentle eyes
and the stories that he used to tell me night times by the fire around which we all gathered until late.
Hard Stone took my mother as his third wife and I became his hated son-in-law, his victim.
In spite of all the bad treatments from Hard Stone and his first wife, Loud Call, I managed to reach the age of ten and I had one more season to go in order to become a full adult member of the tribe, this was achieved through a ritual ruled by the shaman Big horn but I was freed from
the hands of Hard Stone much sooner than expected.
All the hunters were gone to a river spot where buffalos used to cross while migrating to the south, only youngters, women and old people stayed to guard the camp and that day, around noon, I was training throwing spears by a pond near camp,while women and kids played in the water, the spears came from my father, these were my legal property and none could contest this, not even Hard Stone,that was the custom.
Anyway, I was by my target tree when that lion appeared, a female,I didn't have time to think and I just walked toward her, she growled deep but I just pointed one of my spears toward her and got ready to throw the other, pure instinct made me shake my right arm,holding firmly my
other weapon and ready to strike if she chose to attack, She didn't,she growled one more time and left sowly, avoiding the rout.
That female probably had cubs and was alone, I think she couldn't afford a fight in which she could get wounded but my attitude was what made me a man before time.
Three sun passed and the hunters were back, all learned what I'd done,there's not a thing Hard Stone could do about it and they painted me with red earth and the shaman named me by the fire that night, I was to be "High Stand" full member of my tribe.
Later I had to cope with our chief again, he wanted to take Shiny Cloud, my love, as his fourth wife. That's another story.....