On the fourth day, after Maka and I were done with the gathering, she went to bathe in the pond, and I went to explore. I needed to find a way to get back into the chief's hut and get home. By this time my parents and friends were probably worried sick about me and where I had disappeared to. I was walking on the outskirts of the village when I saw the chief and Alawa leave their hut and walk towards the center of the village. I knew this was my time to sneak into their hut and get home. I was almost had gotten to the door of the hut when mother of the tribe called me over to help her with her weaving. I almost cried because I felt like I was never going to get home. Once I was there for a week I gave up on the fact of going home and just integrated myself in their culture. I took a new name of Chepi and, after a few months, I married to the chief”s son, Hotah, because Alawa took a liking to …show more content…
I ran upstairs and laid on my bed thinking of the life I left back with the tribe and how Hotah was going to feel. The next morning when I woke up I ran back into the woods and tried to get back to my life with the tribe. I opened the lid to the bowl in the chief's hut and felt the cold gust of wind. When I walked out of the hut I was highly disappointed there was no one there. Time here must move faster than I expected, I was hoping it was only a few months had gone by in the time I was home. I walked around trying to find out how long it had been since I left. I walked around and couldn't find anything that told me how long I was gone but just that everyone I had loved was long gone and I was never going to get my old life back. I sat by the pond and cried and cried. After I had gotten that out of my system I gathered up all the pots, arrowheads, and anything else with value and buried them in the special plot where we buried things in time of attack. If I couldn't get my old family back I wasn't going to let anything happen to their things. After I was done I took one last look at the village looking for a sign to my old life. Not finding one I walked back to the chief's hut and went back to