Thortas Story

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Kuldr ran along the border. He scented the enemy tribe. They've been hanging around here lately. Are they planning an attack? he wondered. I should get back. The True Naming Agaetí was today. He knew what name he wanted. He wanted to be named Skölir, which meant proctector. He was next in line for chief, and he wanted to have a good name so his tribe would respect him. He ran back to camp, and made it just as the Agaetí started. "Kuldr." "I'm here everybody!" "Get up here." "FIIIIIIINE." "I name you Thorta. Your Free Spirit must not get in the way of your studies, Thorta. You will need to step up into my place one day as chief." "Thank you Father." He walked down. His sister, Arget went next. "I name you Rakr! Your exceptional use of forethought will bring you to great places, but you must not get distracted from the task at hand." "Thank you Father." She walked over to him. "How's my favorite sister?" "I'm your ONLY sister." she said. "I'm fine." "Good for you, then. Ok, now for the bad news. There's an-" Their father walked over."Let your names guide you to greatness, my children." "Ok, father, we get it, we are now adults, blah blah blah. Anyway, as I was saying to Rakr, an enemy tribe is parked at our borders. What are we gonna do about it?" "We will FIGHT!" He ran with his family as the enemies charged in. His sister took down two, as he got trapped in a circle of them. His sister and him took down the biggest one, and the others ran and were killed. "I didn't need your help." "And you could have gotten out of there on your own without being killed first??" "No, but I didn't need your help! You're just a GIRL!!" he said, and stomped away. His father told him that she would be the next chief, and for that he hated her. As he killed another wolf, he watched his sister go down. Great, now I've killed her, he thought. Well, good riddance. The enemy wolves went down around him. He drove the rest out of his territory, and found his father on the ground, dying. He took him to the healer, as his mother and sister walked in, he hid until she fell asleep, and walked out. His mother told him that his father had died, and that there would be a tribe gathering to announce it. He stood at the front with his mother, sister, and the healer. "The chief... has left this world, and is now walking the Star Path. His successor is... Rakr." "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??? That's not possible! She's A GIRL!!" He was furious. HE was supposed to be chief. HE was next in line. But NOOOOOO, his spoiled sister had to get everything he had. "I accept." He heard the fear in her voice. He heard how scared she was, how she was imagining how much they wouldn't respect her, how much they would treat her like droppings. "I... will respect our new Chief," he said, surprising himself. He bowed down.