[RPG • 100] Greenstone, 1633 | Speeltopic - Speeltopics

After his question, Tom explained more of what had happened this morning. It had explained the commotion that Tama had seen before he had spotted Finn. Since a human life was more important than drama, he had opted for seeing if she was alright before going to investigate what more had happened. It took quite a bit of effort on his part to understand exactly what Tom meant in his sentences. So many words at once was still a bit difficult, but Tama got the gist of it, luckily Tom used enough words that described actions so he could picture what Tom had seen. Though there was one thing that the man kept bringing up, but that Tamanend couldn't place. Why would someone go hang from a bridge? That just sounded exhausted. If the man had wanted to go into the water, he could have just walked into the river from the side or even jumped down from the bridge, but letting himself hang from the side didn't seem like the best thing to do, especially so early in the morning. Then Tom said someone had hung Raphael on the bridge. Sure you could hang herbs somewhere to dry, but why would you hang people? Alive people were way more useful as they could actually work and do things, Tama couldn't think about any use for dried people, that just sounded morbid. In the end Tama just looked utterly lost at the last part. And Tom said something about Raphael being murdered? So all in all he could conclude that Raphael was dead, possible murdered either before or after he was hanging from the bridge because he wanted to go in the water.
Tama pushed his still full tankard to Finn. He was not going to drink it anyways and she seemed like she wanted more. Better not to waste Toms generosity by throwing the liquid away in the end. Tama took a piece of his bread. If there was this much commotion around someone, they must have been important as Tom had said. Finn brought up another concept Tama was unfamiliar with in her explanation that she did know the man. Though unfamiliar was the wrong term, he knew the concept, but it just didn't seem necessary. Surnames seemed like much more of a hassle than it was worth, but apparently it was important here. The man had been her uncle and Tamanend did know that word. That one was an important one.
"Is he a brother from your mother?" he asked immediately, it would give him much more context in how important the man was to the woman next to him. "Or from your father?" Though, the exact answer did not matter for what Tama was going to do next. It was still one of Finns relatives that had died and there were things that were more important than to know if the man was more or less important to Finn. He took the small knife from his belt and stood up, placing his foot on his chair. With a swift motion Tama sliced a thin strip from the bottom of one of his pant legs before sitting down again. It didn't matter to the Lenape that his clothes were different now. He needed to appease the elders and follow his customs, otherwise Finn would be next to cross the bridge. Carefully, Tama moved a bit closer to Finn and tied the hide string around her wrist.
"You should keep it around your arm until it falls off," he said, fully serious now. "And wash your hair within four sun rises, but never sleep with wet hair. The elders will think you come visit them." Maybe he should bring some more more strings to the rest of Finn's family, but he had no clue where to find them, though they were on his land far away from their own ground and Tama didn't want them to displease the spirits as that would give them more trouble. Did this Raphael guy ever abuse a dog?