To the two women, their own men showed quite respect and help. As soon they came to the seaside the men started making camp and prepared everything first for girls. Under Isaa"s instructions, they made a simple house in case of rain.A couple of men found a small river nearby and prepared everything for the girls to wash in bit seclusion. The guys made a big wall where the girls could change their clothes and wash their bodies without fear.
In base camp, the other part of men made a basic fire and started making their own houses from twigs, branches and leaves. The girl"s house was in mid of other houses so they would be protected in case of danger.
Actually they had no intention helping the other sect. But as Conrad glanced at their way of doing things his head started hurting. Everyone just brought bung of branches and leaves, made a simple cover and that"s it. He saw it, wanted to advise them but they didn"t even listen so he just shrugged it off.
Illo came to him with a big smile. ""Sorry, we will make do this way. There is no need for any big housings here. It"s such warm weather.""
Conrad scoffed and gave him a serious look. ""Illo, I am your friend from our world that is true. But I will still help our sect before yours. From now on how you live is your problem. If you don"t listen to my advice, ts your problem as well. I will give advice only once. If the rain comes, and it will, you all will be wet as mouses. Do not ask me to accept your people into our houses. I will not, not even females. Understood?""
His cold expression and serious words stunned Illo. He actually thought about to leech off the Conrad but looking at his eyes, it was as it seems impossible.
After talking to Illo, Conrad went back and sat down with everyone around the fire. Isaa sat next to him while sighing.
""They don"t listen right?"" He just grunted and gave her a slight nod, while her eyes became vicious. ""Conrad, no matter how much he is your friend, I have no wish or will to feed his people. We will indeed gather salt together, but fishes I will definitely not share.""
Conrad"s heart skipped and he rose his eyes to meet hers. In Isaa"s eyes ice almost seeped out and he understood that she will definitely not help others. It was his intention to give his share o Illo, but now he had to rethink that. They must survive as well. They had now two pregnant women.
Isaa sighed and patted his shoulder. ""Conrad, I didn"t say we will not help them and instruct them, just the things we get I will not share as we need it as well. There is that. Then we have one more situation. The two o us should never be without men around. Did you notice how they act towards their women?""
Conrad just now realized her insinuation. ""They wouldn"t dare to attack you or our women. They are not that stupid, right?""
Kimi sat down and chuckled. ""Oh, but they are. Luckily we got some of our powers back. Or I would feel very uncomfortable now. I think this year we can show them how to survive, next year we can choose another spot for ourselves and take care of our own business. ""
Olek, one of their people sat down and s.h.i.+ver pa.s.sed his body. ""I got just hit on by one of their females. She asked me to give her some food and she would let me use her body. I just stuffed some food in her hands and had to run away. I mean, I do understand their situation, but how can humans stink this badly. Did they even wash themselves this winter? By the way, men are as stinky as women.""
Everyone started talking about that and complaining but stopped when Isaa put finger on her mouth. ""Shhh, all we have to do is to show them how we do it. After that, we will just continue working as we wish and they can do what they wish. You spoke about food. Luckily we still had enough food from our winter forage. Bring fresh water and let"s cook some porridge. After that, we will go and fish.""
Isaa actually loved the sea. From the first moment, since Kendra and she swam deeper and deeper into the sea, she loved it to be inside. Kimi suddenly felt a gaze on her and turned her eyes towards it. Kimi stared at her with pleading eyes and made her laugh. ""What is it?""
Kimi suddenly blushed. ""I... I don"t know how to swim. Can you teach me?""
Isaa could see a few more people avoiding her eyes and chuckled. ""Let us prepare fist everything to extract salt first. I will teach you how to make fish traps. There is no need to go to the deep sea at fists. And about swimming. Boy"s I think you can help each other right?""
Few men started explaining the basic things about swimming while resto of them listened. Isaa would add a sentence or two in it and at the same time, she would stir the cauldron that the men brought from home.
Actually they made stone pots for home as they had no metal to make. But Isaa told them that they could make clay pots and take with them. So men actually carried heavy pots. They needed some for food, for making hot water and rest would be used for cooking the salt.w.a.ter and making salt.
They couldn"t understand how Illo plan to extract salt and wondered about that. But looking at the current situation, does he think to leech off them?
""Conrad, go and see how they plan to cook the salt.w.a.ter. We have enough pots only for our use. If they have nothing to use, we can give them a few and you can explain to them how to make clay pots. You know yourself how hard it was to make them, and how many times we failed."" But luckily her worries were proven wrong.
Illo had few men that knew how to handle pottery themselves so they brought pots as well so they didn"t have to share at least that.
Soon the smell of food wafted over to Illos sect and with big eyes, they could see the people sitting calmly and eating something like a stew. There was no rush or disorganization. Just calmly eating and chatting. Afterward, men went to wash the plates and pots while girls went to search for branches.
Isaa sighed when she saw the girls approaching and looking at them with big eyes. ""Can you give us some of that creme you spoke off?""
Kimi calmly answered. ""Ask Conrad. He is holding our supplies. The creme is there only in an emergency. But if you girls do not wash, no creme will help you anyway.""
Her straight words made them wince. One of the women almost jumped in fury.
""You think you are something, right? Just two girls and so many women. Earlier or later your men will come to us anyway..."" She snickered as she stared Olek that turned green in his face.
He could hear her words and insinuation and almost started running in fear. But looking at how Isaa and Kimi stood their ground his eyes became icy. ""Do not take us as barbarians, woman. Do you think all men are just beasts that are in heat? We have no time to think about that. And even if we do we will still choose to be with someone we have feelings for than just mating with some random person.""
Actually, he preferred men over women but didn"t wish to tell about that to anyone. But after living with the females in his sect as a normal human, he realized it is not impossible for him to live with a woman as well fo the rest of his life. Luckily not all women are as disgusting it was in his mind. And now, after seeing these women, he even had harder expectations from any person, man or woman. Kendra truly infected them all with her cleanings. She hated dirty things and with time they got used to being all squicky clean. Kimi and Isaa looked at each other and knew the reason.
""It seems my sisters obsession with clean stuff rubbed off on all of us."" Isaa chuckled while looking at Olek that rushed off.
Kimi nodded. ""Indeed. Whole winter we spent most of the time in that bathhouse. No wonder even the men became this way. To be clean is so nice and refres.h.i.+ng."" She turned her head towards the woman and then suddenly stepped back.
Isaa looked ta her in astonishment as Kimi pointed at something with shaky finger...