The Navigator

A long time ago, if you were under the full moon and you were a child molester, you’d become sick after being in the ocean for too long.

They say in the islands that if you were in the ocean you’d die.

Once the navigators used to bring food to a grieving highlander.

There was a stranger who was always sick under the full moon so the navigators had brought them from another island from up north.

The navigators depended on the wind and the direction of the wind to tell them when it would rain. They depended on the clouds and the stars to tell them where the storms would go and where and when they’d come.

One day they went under the full moon and brought their friend to be healed but when they had learned of Highlander’s death, the Navigators trekked back and found the children were dead because they were raped by a sick man. He was the very sick man they had brought to be healed so they pushed him into the water and Chaife’ the sea God grabbed him underwater to drown.

Chaife’ had sent the aniti or river spirits to grab the man and when they grabbed him, he came back.

Floating. But dead.