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"Thank you for saying that," she squeaked softly. She lightened up her grip and said, "I want you to get a little stronger since you're weak, really weak, even when compared to me. The full grown men of my former village could pick up three people my size and toss me around easily. They were all ten to twelve feet tall and extremely bulky."

She hated to sound threatening while receiving such exciting news that Will wanted to marry her so she smiled at him and said, "They weren't too smart though. Frequently, I would have them try to cook things only to watch them all burn down my hard built homes, yes, homes. I made them all out of mud and palm leaves, but they would cook so badly I ended up losing five houses to all the suitors who tried for my hand in marriage. I just want a simple guy, not a warrior. Someone who I know could be a bit more responsible around the future babies I shall have."

"I love your food," Rakawa stated reaching her lips up to his forehead to kiss it. She could see the blush on his face and the freckles and pat him on the shoulder, "perhaps I have gone a bit too far with my request. If you don't wish to bulk up a little don't. I may be big, but even if you don't bulk up I can accommodate to "us" and your six foot height. You will just need to snuggle closer to me when we sleep next to each other."

A red blush appeared on Rakawa's face and she began to twiddle her thumbs. She now realized her words may have made the air a little uneasy. She had to keep him interested in her at all costs.

Rakawa backed away from him rather quickly and said, "Now-now you're being too kind to me, um, I don't suppose you know what to do to become husband and wife and what we do afterwards. I only know of the concept and not what they actually do besides having families."

Rakawa blushed even more and realized she had backed herself into the side of her cave. She saw a spear she had crafted next to her and grabbed it. She did not know why, but now she felt like defending herself just a little. Perhaps, Will had gotten a bit too close for comfort. She wasn't sure how to react to people who invaded her personal space, but was always willing to step into theirs.

"Um..." Rakawa muttered as she dropped her spear, "If that's all marriage involves, well, then I am prepared."

She crawled towards Will and bowed before him. "Mark my forehead with something, and then, well, let me loose into the jungle. Once you have you have one day to find me and take me back to this cave. Otherwise, I get to hunt you down again and drop you off in the forest wherever I want. I've kind of already broken the rules of my marriage vows by showing you where my house is without telling my parents who I planned to marry before hand, but please find me again anyway and bring me back to this home. Once you have, you can decide for us to stay here or take me back to your home. Whatever you choose I have to follow since you are my husband and the husband chooses the home of his wife."

She raised her forehead and waited for Will to act.

"Thank you," Rakawa stated, "I'll be off now. I'll give you a hint and that hint is that I really like trees."

She stood up and dashed out of the cave, once she had she climbed up the rocky ledges in front of her cave and grabbed a vine that was hanging down from a tree next to her home. Swinging on this one, she grabbed another vine before her and another before doing a front flip into a tree above her.

Once up in a tree, one about the length of four trees from her home, approximately four hundred feet south of her own home, she found a couple mangoes in said tree and crushed them against her body body and let the scent sink in. Will would never find her if she smelled like a piece of fruit. Then again he was a chef.

"Eep!" Rakawa gasped. She had come to find that since the start of their game Will had been unable to find her; she now thought it was time to go. He had found her now and if she was touched by him she would have to go back to her cave and become his wife. It was not a bad idea, but she wanted to make the game go on longer. The only problem was she had landed in a tree with no vines in it, plus if she climbed down she would be dropping right into where he was standing.

Her brown eyes pierced through the foliage around her and she cried, "You find me, and I suppose you win based on the fact I cannot escape even if I climb down. So before I do, at least tell me where I shall be living with you husband."

She did not want to seem to harsh to him so she prepped herself by standing up on the branch she had been sitting on and prepared to drop down into his arms. She decided she might like being carried to his homely choice, if nothing else. She was now his lover forever.

Rakawa nodded and answered him, "I believe that sounds good as well, but you're not strong enough to handle my full strength yet."

She leaped off the tree so that she would land behind behind him rather than in his arms. She did not want to crush him. Once she had landed she turned around and hugged him. "Please do build us a house of four walls that is comfortable, and for the record, if we have children, I want only one. I'm afraid they'd turn out like me and you really would regret having more than one abnormally strong child. To demonstrate her point point she picked up a pebble and crushed it in the palm of her hand, leaving behind only dust.

Showing this to Will, she stated, "If I were a guy. I could do this same thing with only two fingers, but unfortunately, I am at what is considered my maximum muscle potential. We rank women and men in our village based on hunting skills and muscle usage and women tend to unfortunately rank lower than men due to our smaller muscles."