Author: Moddop

• Helgon

  The words of Anik My heart broke today. I was going to visit Helgon – I wanted to show her my water skin. When I reached her hut and looked in I saw her sitting there with Brutts. They were holding hands and talking. I didn’t know what to do so I just left. I know I’m just a boy now, but I thought she was waiting for me. In another three months I can compete for her affection. I […]

• What is a father to do?

  My son seems to be unable to do even the simplest of tasks. He keeps bring disgrace on my name. Just this week he lost a fight with a boy two years his junior and twenty pounds lighter in weight. In a few more months he will go off on his vision quest. If he returns triumphant he will be an adult. If he returns a failure I will have to banish him – no father should have to banish […]

• I Lost

  The words of Anki I don’t know what happened. I thought I was ready. I must have out weighted him by twenty pounds. The men had formed a circle and then pushed me into it. There he was, Maul. He had just been pushed into the circle, too. I was looking him up and down, trying to see how he was setting his muscles so I might guess how he might attack, when someone pushed me from behind. I stumbled […]

• I Won

  The words of Maul It was great. I got to fight the chief’s son today and I won. It really wasn’t that hard. I just never gave him a chance to attack me. After I finished pounding his head into the ground the men carried me back to the single men’s hut. They gave me grog to drink and we all ate venison that one of the older men had caught. It was great. My knee was bothering me, so […]

• My son is gone

  The words of Sarhbub It has been ten days since the whiteness took my son. With our son gone, my mate left, too. It has been very quiet in my hut. It is always quiet when the whiteness is here, but this year the silence seems to scream at me. The coldness in the air seems to be deepening the coldness in my heart. Just as it makes it hard for me to move my joints, the coldness in my […]

• Water Skin

  The words of Anik I finished my water skin today. It took much longer than I thought it would. I think the fact that it is so cold made it take longer for me to get the stomach and skin ready. The point is that it is done now and actually holds water. I took it to Zerog and he said it was good and that all I had to do now was wait for the spring to come and […]

• It’s cold alone

  The words of Eevla Life is hard – and the hard things all seem to come together. The whiteness has come like it does every year and like every year it changes life. It’s cold. I’m sure it isn’t colder than any other year, but it sure feels like it. Most years there would only be a fire in the hut at dinner time, but his year I’ve had a fire going most of the day. Maybe I’m colder because […]

• My Son

  The words of Sarhbub My son died. The place in my heart and my home that he once occupied have been replaced with sadness and memories. I asked Hodish about my pain. He said that he understood, he too had lost a child many years ago. He said that I should focus on the good that has happened to me and not on the bad. I said I didn’t understand, so he gave me a list. Because of my son […]

• Loss

  The words of Chief Torin God has hidden his face from us again. The great Whiteness has come and covered the world. He has left traps for the unwary. One of the young boys went into the woods. He started to play a dangerous game. He jumped up and grabed low tree branches and then ran away as the whiteness traped in their branches fell. He challenged god too many times, the last time the whiteness caught him and knocked him to the ground. A rock waited for him […]