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PPing Unatsi with permission from Raze. Hey; he bonks his head!
"This talking is Ulilohi" and "This talking is Unatsi."
She left there immediately, not waiting to see who followed her. She assumed someone would automatically rise to the occasion and she was right; not long after, a voice spoke in flowing AniWayan behind her, one she recognized as Unatsi. She turned her head slightly and nodded to him to simply let him know she had heard him. Winds were making a lot of noise now, and she did not want to spend her voice shouting where shouting was not needed.
As she had suspected, the canoes needed saving. They were usually stacked up against the wall, often semi-fastened by a rope that simply pushed them against the wall so they could maintain their upright position. Three canoes had fallen and lay scattered, two more were shaking and threatening to fall. Their construction allowed for the winds to grab them and lift them with relative ease. Ulilohi was not as much worried about the ones laying down as she was about the ones standing up still; they could fall more easily, or catch on the winds and move to hurt someone. The councilwoman raised an arm and signalled Unatsi to follow her over to one of them, and he followed without speaking. Still, the noise around them created an atmosphere not made for conversation.
They continued conversing without words, and it seemed to Ulilohi that Unatsi quite easily picked up on her intention as she walked over to one of the canoes that were standing up and put her hands on it as if she were to lift it. The canoes were carved out of single tree trunks, and quite heavy. He mirrored her position and prepared for the lift with her. However, it was less heavy than she had anticipated, and as she lifted,t he tip of it tilted heavily in Unatsi's direction. Her height didn't really help yo lessen the problem, and the canoe nudged him with an audible "thud" as it hit him over the head. She gave a loud exclamation and he gave one as well as they both dropped the canoe. The male dumped down on the ground, and the canoe followed, landing on the ground only inches from him. "Aaah, are you okay?!" Ulilohi exclaimed, realising how close Unatsi had come to serious injury. That, and the obvious pain he would have from the knock on his head. He shook his head as she watched, eventually looking rather sheepish. How fortunate that all of this would happen where the rest could not see them.
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