Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The Wind


   There was once a girl named Istas. She lived with her father, Mai. One day, Istas was out harvesting crops when something came up to her.
   "If we can breathe, why isn't there any breath in the air?" she wondered.
   She went inside, and asked her dad the same thing she thought. Later on, her father went out to go hunt buffalo. When he came back, he thought the same thing.
    "You are right, Istas. You are a very thoughtful girl." he said.
   The next day, Istas went out with her father, Mai, to look for the breath. They said they would try to look all over the world if they had to just to find the breath. They looked for minutes, hours, days, weeks, years! They couldn't find the breath. Sooner or later, Mai gave up.
  "We can't go on any longer. We have looked everywhere we could."
  "Pa, we NEED to find this breath."
  "We have looked already. We will go home now, Istas."
  "Okay pa. How long have we gone?"
  "Longer than you think, Istas."
  When they arrived back at their tipi, they went to bed, waiting to see if there would be a sign of breath in the morning.
   In the morning, Istas got up before Mai. She went outside of the tipi, and took a deep breath. Inside the tipi where Mai was, he took a deep breath in his sleep the same time as Istas did. When they both breathed out, a gush of air spread far far out, and it was the most amazing thing Istas had ever seen. It spread through all of the trees, all of the clouds, all of the animals, and through Istas, and her father, Mai.
    Mai woke up, and ran over to Istas.
   "What happened!" exclaimed Mai.
   "I have no idea! When I breathed out, there was a gush of air that spread all around!" replied Istas.
   "The breath..." Istas thought aloud.
   "The breath!" They both shouted at the same time.
   "We found the breath!"
  From then on, Istas and her father, Mai made something called the wind, the thing that makes it cold outside, the thing that makes the trees sway, the thing that Istas and her father, Mai created. They never realized they created the wind, but they knew they finally found it. That is how the wind was created.


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