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anko3358 - Wait Until Dark, Okay!

Prologue: In the wild, yukkuris almost never travel. If they do, it must be because their
Easy Place has become uneasy. Something very uneasy happens, so a Marisa leads about three
hundred of her fellow clan members to find a new Easy Place. It is a difficult journey, and
many yukkuris take it easy forever on the way, but when their numbers have dwindled to about
a hundred, at last they find a nice mountainside with plentiful food and water and no predators.
Marisa declares it their new Easy Place.

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We begin with various scenes of happy, peaceful clan life. The adults, many of whom lost their
own children on the journey, look after the little ones who were orphaned on the journey. They
teach them to speak, sing, and hunt; they watch them play and feed them. Leader Marisa and her
mate Patchouli--who also lost their children on the journey--watch their clan taking it easy.
Marisa is so happy, she is moved to tears.

However, Marisa is still troubled by one incident. Not long after they settled there, they were
visited by a delegation of yukkuris from a nearby clan. The visiting leader Patchouli coldly told
them there wasn't enough food to support them--that they should leave, or else something uneasy
would happen. Marisa interpreted this as a threat, so she gave them one of her mighty puffs,
famously able to scare away even a wild cat. The visiting yukkuris were frightened, but their
leader Patchouli only said, "I warned you," and then they left. Marisa gets an uneasy feeling
whenever she remembers it.

Marisa's mate Patchouli tells her she's overthinking it, that the other tribe only wanted to keep
all the food for themselves.