Building Myself
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It was time again to assist in making new torches to light the AniWayan village. The older ones were burning low now and it was only a few days time before they would run out completely. Tiva had been a patient teacher to Gemma and had built upon what Ralla had been able to teach her in the short time before the white woman had departed with her children for the unknown. They had long ago gotten over their trepidation of each other and Tiva was sympathetic to Gemma's children, their presumed father being exiled and thought her brave for raising them alone although adopting a friend to stand in as a surrogate father was a strange and yet somehow agreeable idea to Tiva.

Although Gemma was not one for crafting and making things this was one area in the crafting world that she was better at everything else simply from the amount of practice she had had. Tiva had had her create torches over and over again until she had gotten it right. Even when her injures had proved too much to allow her to work physically the older woman did not slack in her teaching duties and instead quizzed Gemma on her AniWayan whishe she was progressing in with very large leaps and bounds, having two very good teachers, Native Tiva and Tamai Waki also.

Now Tiva finally trusted her to be alone and be able to correctly make the torches and so she did so, gathering up her supplies, a large amount of long straight sticks, the rawhide tie and cloth he would need to fuel them and hold them together and of course the needed oils to saturate the cloth with so they would burn long and strong. She sat alone now on one of the logs that surrounded the Great Fire, placing the finished torches upright against the town hall behind her as she finished them. Even with Gemma's experience it was slow work for the torches had to all be perfectly aligned and shaped lest they fall over in heavy winds and burn someones house.


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