Lady Grace's Character: Ti' Tanama

[Lady Grace]

Tau-tau! Is cold here, yes? And wet. Not like Bimini. Always the sun with Bimini! And the sands! So soft, so pink. Like walking on clouds. Not like here. Very wet. Very cold -- very HARD.

Forgive me. Is still difficult getting used to these lands. Like shoes. And shirts. Many shameful eyes here! Many judgies, that is the word, yes? Judgies? Like the Castille, yes. Very judgie. Here, there are judgies AND cold. One is strange, the other is just cold. Why shame for the body? Is glory in what the Great Spirit gave me, yes? Yes, Great Spirit is your Theus, yes? Is what you have said? Many many times?

But we have cold. And wet. So wear the shoes, and the shirt.

Do I miss Bimini? Is -- is difficult to say. We had the aspreys flit among the orchards, drinking the nectar -- the ones that make the sweet beans you call "vanilla". Many songs, many dances. We swim and laugh with the Tonina -- the Dolphin as you call them. This -- this I miss.

My tale, yes. So impatient you are! Is HARD to retell! So many tears for me -- please, you understand that, yes?

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...there was a strong wind from the east. I remember that. Our shaman had given me a cup of the juice from the Jibiria -- melon -- and told me to be strong. This -- this was my duty. I was the firstborn of our chief and so, would be sent to the Great Spirit. High up and into the Smoking Mountain. I would not be scared.

But that was before the Men of the Black Flag attacked us! I did not know -- none of us knew -- what they wanted! Now...now I understand. They wanted the rock of gold and shed blood when they found none.

They took ME instead! I begged to stay, tried to flee to the Great Spirit's embrace for the sake of my people and Bimini! So much laughing, so evil.

The laughing stopped when the mountain roared and the ash and fire came raining down. I tried...I tried...

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...please, forgive my tears. I remember waking up on the boat. Bigger than any of our longboats. All that was left was a great plume of fire and black smoke fading away, My home, my PEOPLE--!

The Men of the Black Flag, they did not touch me after that. I prayed to the Great Spirit to save me somehow and She sent Men of Other Flags in Other Boats and they fought the Black Flags. And they...they took me in now. Took me to your Theah. To my new friends! The Finders!

...oh, Explorers! Yes, that is who they are. And they ask of Bimini and its stories now -- just like you! Maybe, maybe you help them? They wish to see where Bimini once was. Many gildas needed, they say.

"Guilders", yes. THAT is the word!