The legend of Skywater
Once there was a pack of Mooncallers. They consited of their leader, X, and the rest, Cheiko, Salam, Dintty Moore, Kraft, Kodak and Bordee. Their watering place was gone. There was no others in the sering deserts in the south. X had many a Mooncalles spirts with him. He knew of the place called Skywater through them. So he set off and the pack followed. Along with them trailed other little creatures who followed at a distance and kept away. They traveled for days, alawys over the sering deserts. One by one the pack was deing or leaving. Frist it was Bordee, who was young and foolish. He was thrown down a waterfall and killed. Then Kraft, who had only one pack paw. A pick killed him. Kodak, who hated X for his leadership. He ran off, taking Salam with him. Only Cheiko and Dintty Moore was left. X was hurt and was left slightly crippled. Cheiko and Dintty took care of him while he recovered by bringing food and other things to him. Over this time X and Cheiko became somthing to the afect of soul mates. As the traveled on, the three became insprable. One day Cheiko was captured and taken aboard a ship. X, having a lame leg, could not get aboard. So Dintty jumped up and climbed aboard. He freed Cheiko, but by the time he had, they had reached the sea. The to Monncallers knew that this was the skywater. They were sad because X, who had started them on the journy, was not there to share the joy. They soon found out that the skywater could not be drunk by real beast and was a place for the spirts. They came across a lame and injured otter. She was young. They saved her from the vermin that were trying to get at her. One day Dintty decied to find somthing usful about the skywater. He saw a island off the shore and wanted to swim there. Cheiko refused, saying it was way to far for any Mooncaller to ever swim. So one finr=e twilight Dintty Moore set out all alone to swim there. Cheiko still had the ottermaid for company and they soon were very good friends. Then one dawn, Cheiko saw him, X, coming over the dunes toward them. She stared at him as if trying to belive it was really him. He looked up and saw her. They ran to each other and sonn were reaquantied and X had met Winderstream, the ottermaid. Woundering where Dintty was he looked around and asked. Both of the others were quiet and sad, for they knew that Dintty had never made it to the island, and had joined the spirts above them.
Almost a year later, the Mooncallers returned to there home. With them a group of otters and other Mooncallers. They soon had a comunity and moved to a spot where the trees met the desert and all were content. they made a comunity and called it Skywater, a place of truth. I come from there, but I was captured by vermin and left some where in mossflower.
The ottermaid found by Cheiko and Dintty, was one of my ansetors, a grandmum, some where back. As I said before it is only one version of the legend, but I still belive it true....
Submitted By Cheiko Skywater
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