Hilua takes the lead...

Hoping desperately that this hand gesture means the same thing in their culture that it does in hers Hilua waves to everyone to follow her, and starts walking back to the village, making sure that everyone can keep up. She is in luck, it does mean the same thing, and after holding up a hand to signal, "Wait!" and hauling their boats up above the high tide mark the visitors follow willingly enough.

"What are you doing?" Her sister Kita hisses at her, angry, but she is feeling uncharacteristically bold today and responds with calm conviction.

"They are visitors from another island, it is custom to show them hospitality." She states unafraid.

"Hilua you are such a gull brain! There are only the three of us left, and they outnumber us five to one!" Kita snarls.

"All the more reason to keep them happy and encourage them to stay."

"Stay?!?" Kita hisses sidling close to her twin sister.

"Yes, STAY Kita." Hilua whipers back. "I have seen how you have started to look at Hikaru these past few days, but I for one don't want to have my brother be my only option for a husband."

"Oh, don't give me that, you have been looking at him that way too!" Kita whispers smirking. ~And me, but let's not talk about that: she mustn't know how much that turned me on...~ She thinks wistfully.

"So what? There are other men here now, and this could mean the difference between all our children being food for the shark god, and having the tribe survive." Hilua hisses back, while thinking: ~I'm soooo glad she hasn't noticed me checking out HER ass, we fooled around when we were younger but I thought we had outgrown that: what's wrong with me...?~

It takes about an hour's walk to reach the village, which is large enough to accommodate just over four times as many people as are in the entire group now coming into it.

"Welcome to White Water Village!" Hikaru states, sweeping his arms in a circle. "Feel free to walk around, and pick accommodations for yourselves."

The 28 year old woman who seems to be one of the newcomers leaders says something in their language, but of course the siblings don't understand it...