Strange Ship
(Louise Peltzer)
We
knew something was going to happen. The omens are never wrong. The
night before had been atrocious because of violent storms and rain. I
don''t remember ever having seen it so terrible. Each strike of
lightning lit up the fare with a roar of thunder, revealing a family
curled up and trembling in fear. What had we done? Why did the atua
display their anger this way? As if our misery wasn''t intense enough,
near dawn the gods picked up the earth of Tahiti with fury and the
ground shook. We greeted the dawn with huge relief, and the first rays
of sun were like caresses. The sky was pure: Ra''a, the god of the wind,
had tired from his exertions and calmed down. There were no traces of
his huge upset of the night before, and it was as if we had all lived
through a bad dream. But we could hear the faraway roar of the raging
sea''s enormous waves smashing the reef and proving to us that we hadn''t
been dreaming. Most of the fare had been damaged, so men and women got
to work fixing them.
It was at this time
of intense preoccupation that we heard yelling. It sounded like an
invitation to celebrate: "Pahi, pahi..." Children were the first to
throng onto the beach. It took us a while to distinguish the top of the
mast of the strange ship that sailed alongside the reef at a
respectable distance.
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