Beauty and Arrows

It took so long to arrive, and hearing such news could not help but make her feel very depressed.

"That ... Where did he go?" asked Daisy with a sense of unease. The woman in front of her was someone related to Wolf, to be exact she was her aunt but she was still always friendly to Daisy.

"Of course it is hunting! Recently he is competing for the position of the leader of the tribe so he is busy hunting for meat."

The aunt gestured for Daisy to sit beside her and took a fruit from nearby which she offered.

"He has a new girl; you don't have to work hard anymore." Aunt said with a smile.

"Well ... No, I have other things to find him for, right, and this necklace, I have to return it to him!" said Daisy seriously.

In that era, necklace was one of the few private possessions, and it was precious. Seeing Daisy wanting to return it, the aunt nodded.

"Then you can wait here for him to come back from the woods."

That meant that she could stay for now at the tribe.

Even if Daisy was Wolf's old lover, once there was no one protect her, entering the territory of another tribe, there was still some danger in it.

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After Daisy left, on a flat ground outside the cave, Edward began to teach others how to use the stones to sharpen the arrowheads.

This was also the first time for him to do this kind of thing, but from the impression he had of ancient weapons he had seen in the museums, he had some basic understanding. He quickly sharpened a triangular arrowhead with a wooden tail which had feathers.

"Don't shoot, not till you have a clear view; your arrowhead must be sharp enough to penetrate the deer's body." This was a simple technique which Night, Debro and Roc could learn with practice.

In less than a day, more than 40 stone arrows were made, and Edward checked the results of the labor of three people.

"We can only rely on this kind of weapon to hunt for a period of time. When our new tribes increase in manpower then we'll have it better. You guys will be responsible for passing down these teachings to them so that we can have a sufficient weapon supply. Do you understand?"

Everyone nodded in response.

Edward noticed that Night kept putting one of her finger in her mouth and kept sucking on it.

Next to Night, Roc sat with a straight smile. Edward also smiled, finding it amusing:

"Sister, finger ache? But you have to become familiar with this work and then hand it over to others to do, now I will teach you a little bit of the workings of a bow" Speaking to Roc, "Take the bundle of bamboo sticks"

Then he said: "Split the sticks into bamboo boards."

The bamboo had been opened apart by a stone axe and then had been folded into many bamboo boards.

"Now we'll need some animal skins."

Edward held the two bamboo sticks in his hand and look around with a smile.

"Light.....Brother, I....I, just have this skin, if… you..you want I can ….can take it off?" Debro replied while stuttering and unwilling.

"Stupid! How many years have you been in this animal skin? Take it off, we can always get more animal skins and we have the smaller rabbit skins too!" Edward ordered with a smile.

Then he cut a few thin leather ropes with an obsidian knife, and then tied the end of the triangular stone arrowhead with a leather cord in a circle and to the bamboo stick.

He then cut the tail of the shaft with an obsidian knife, clipped a few feathers in.

"Do you see this? This is a good feather arrow; you'll make the rest of the arrows."

Taking advantage of everyone making more arrows, Edward took the bamboo boards that had been previously prepared and used them for the bow frame. He carefully scraped the burrs around the bamboo boards with the black obsidian knife and polished at the end with stone. Finally, using both hands, he bent the ends of the bamboo plates hard. The middle part of the board was placed over fire while slowly roasted to harden the frame in the bent position. Not long after, a curved bow frame was made.

Edward carried out making bows in the same manner all the while he kept glancing towards the direction where Daisy went.

Everything was in place now, only the bowstrings remained.

Waiting for another hour, it was almost dusk by now but there was still no trace of Daisy which worried Edward to no end.

'Is everything alright with her? I feel guilty for sending her like this…..'