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Neska was in a much better mood today; Vollerei had come home! Her momma had not died! Neska wanted to cook a delicious meal for her adopted mother..
But that would require supplies! She stared at the emptied kitchen of Vollerei's home adn sighed. Since Volle had been gone for a while, the kitchen had not been restocked...

I shall go out and do so myself! Neska thought with a determined nod before grabbing her doll and trotting off towards the jungles about the city. How she was going to hunt anything was unknown to her, but she was going to try!

Of course she could have asked Volleri's mothers or sister... but Neska wanted to do this on her own!

Joweese fiddled with her dreads as her sister spoke, her tiny fingers looping around the tiny braids her mother had made that morning, and made a pensive face. Climbing Aisha's branches sounded fun, even with the prospect of being banned for life on the line, but the question of how they would travel across the water alone was a big problem in that plan. She was sure they could cross if they traveled on each other's shoulders... But wouldn't one of them drown?

"I think we'd need a boat if we wanted to go see Aisha, Za-Za. But we could look for one later!" She chirped, a grin stretching across her features. "Maybe Aisha has fruit at the top of her branches that's just for Eshe!"

She slinked herself along a lower branch as Zahra swung and blinked when she mentioned another Sister in the area. Who was she? Her cheeks rose to compliment her grin.

"Yeah! Let's follow her!" She agreed wiggling off the branch. "Maybe she knows where we can get a boat!"

A boat, huh? Well, they would just have to keep a look out for one of these boast then she decided before she dropped down to the branch just below where she was hanging, shifting herself so that she was sitting on, feet swinging, as she watched the other girl that was still on the ground. After a moment of watching she made her way down to the ground, dusting off the simple shorts and wrap top she was wearing. Once that was done she looked to her sister and said, "She's up to something, right? I mean just look at the way she is looking around, think she is looking for some sort of treasure?" The other girl was looking under what felt like every leaf in the area, as well as carrying a bag with her, she meant to find something important, huh? Zahra needed to know what it was, it was of vast importance! At least to her, she had to know what the other little sister was hunting or else she would find it hard to think of anything else.

"Come on then Jowe-Jo, let's see what she's up to!" She said, hurrying forward, doing her best to hop over anything that she felt might make too much noise as she approached. No stepping on sticks, no leaves, no tripping on rocks. She had to be stealthy if she wanted to catch up with their suspicious sister and figure out what it was that she was up to. Zahra was certain that it was something interesting, it just had to be! As she got closer her antennae set to twitching, the pair a little out of sync with each other, and she got a bit smile on her face as she heard the other girl talking to herself. Well now, that would make things easier now, wouldn't it?

Of course as they got close enough to hear what she was saying Zahra looked visibly disappointed, "What? Vegetables? Blech! For the love of Aisha, I thought you were treasure hunting or something." She said, resting her hands on her hips a bit of a pout appearing on her lips.

Neska wrinkled her nose at the two interrupters. "Food is treasure!" Volle said that all the time! "Much better as it can be eaten and help you rather than be uselessly pretty."

Why would she be hunting treasure out here? This was right by the village! Any treasure that was out here would have been taken by the adults by now, she thought to herself. Looking at Joweese she gave a small smile.
"You think the beach will have food? I'm gonna gather food and cook it for my momma!" This one probably has more brains than the one who wants treasure...

Joweese's mouth spread into a grin. Yes, the beach would have plenty of food, as long as this girl believed there would be. She actually didn't know or really care if there was any food by the beach, honestly. She wanted to get a boat, go across the isles, and climb on Mother Aisha. If there was any food involved along the way, so be it, but the Jow-Jow's main goal was seeing how much trouble she could get into for climbing Mother's branches.

"Yes, I saw some earlier with my mommy today!" She chirped, giving her twin a sly smile. "And there are lots of fish! Lots and lots of fish! We'd just need a boat and a way to catch them and you're all set!"

She eyed her twin again, her smile becoming more devious.

"I heard seaweed tastes good!" She laughed. "I dare you two to eat some when we get to the beach!"

"Fish is pretty good." Zahra said, her antennae twitching out of sync with one another as she thought about it, then gave a laugh, "I bet if we teamed up with could catch a fish bigger then we are! Can you imagine the look on our sister's faces if we brought a monster fish home? Heh, that would be great!" Not to mention their mother would probably have a fit trying to figure out how they got something like that, where, and when. The two of them were masters of getting into trouble after all.

Glancing over at Joweese she locked eyes with her a moment, then gave a grin, turning back to their new friend, "So yeah, we just need to find a boat and BAM! We have access to all of the good stuff ever. You know what else would be good? Shellfish! Their jerks with their pinchy claws but they taste good!" She forgot for a moment about the plot to get to Aisha when she found herself thinking instead about what they might find on and around the beach, things that they could catch, cook up, and eat. It would be great! The only thing that would make up for if they couldn't get to the Chibale Isles.

"Ew... eat seaweed? Oh man, you're so gross, Joweeeeee! That stuff is so slimy! Might as well just lick a Spitorog... hehe, I dare either of you to do that if we find one!" She said, giggling at the idea as well as wrinkling her nose at it. Eeeeww... frog licking, so gross! She'd do that the same time she ate seaweed they scraped up off the sand. Turning to look over at their new friend she gave her a skeptical look, "Good it, huh? Can you cook the slimy feel out of it? I wonder if it might be good if it was cooked with some salt and other stuff to mask its flavor... what do you think, Jo-Jo? Ah! And you, sister, you go a name? If we are traveling together we can't just call you 'hey you' all day."

Neska looked down her tiny button nose at the other two; "It is good, Momma makes it for me! Wraps up veggies and fish and sometimes Maglardilla in it!" She kept to herself that she had once had much the same thoughts.... but living with Vollerei had expanded her food horizons immensely! Everything could and was food now... Except spitrogs! Those were gross.

"I'll keep the sea weed.. you can have the spitrogs!" Neska said with a giggle. "I'm Neska! I live in a small house just outside of Amara. You have fun names... Did your mommas really call you Jojo and Zowee?" They were cute and quick and fun!

I will let them go fishing and stick to safer things, she thought to herself when they mentioned an... uncle....
"What's an uncle? Is that a person?"

Joweese mirrored Zahra's bouncing and nodded eagerly along with her. Showing the monster fish to their cousins would make them super jealous, it would be better than all the pranks they pulled on them combined! Also, imagining all the yummy foods their mother could make for them with it was almost too much for her to bear! She paused, reconsidering her objective to climb Mother Aisha, and decided that catching a monster fish would be the new objective of today's adventure! She nodded to herself and grinned.

"Yeah, our nicknames! I'm Joweese and that's Zahra!" She chimed, pointing to Zahra as she spoke. "You don't know what an uncle is? An uncle is like an aunt only they're a boy-" She paused as Zahra explained and nodded. "Yep! Out mama's big brother! He's the strongest Brute in all of Jauhar!"