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</div><br/>From atop a cluster of grey-spotted clouds, a hawk, majestic in its countenance, drifted across the open skies. With its large wings spread, the bird dove forward, plummeting beneath a light drizzle of rain and towards a building of wood and stone. It gracefully landed upon the sill of an arched window, silent apart from a soft flutter of feathers.<br/><br/>From within the dimly lit room, a figure stood and approached the animal. The hawk’s intelligent black eyes recognized the presence of a superior hunter and gracefully submitted. A calloused hand removed the piece of parchment tied around the avian’s feet. Just as the figure had unfurled the scroll a young antelope of no more than seventeen hurtled into the room.<br/><br/>“Hesutu! The Sky people have come!!” He announced, red-faced and bright-eyed. The moment Tokota had seen their ‘visitor’ he had been mesmerized like most of the villagers. They knew of the people living in the sky but had never seen one this close before. The antelope had run the length of the settlement, having remembered the task given to him, until finally reaching the chieftains home. It was an impressive but simple collection of buildings that seemed to wrap around the trees surrounding it; interconnected by both wooden bridges and thick branches.<br/><br/>A pair of golden irises scanned the strip of paper before glancing up. “Good, Tokota, you’ve gotten faster.”<br/><br/>The antelope beamed, happy from the praise. As the boy left the room, Hesutu turned to look outside the open window. From there he could see the assortment of simple huts and grand wooden homes that formed the Apache tribe. It had taken a decade of clan wars for his people to finally gain peace and it was through the efforts of both the late chieftain and those brave enough to follow him into battle. Hesutu was among that group, considered as the right-hand man and respected by all. It was for that reason that he was chosen as the current chieftain after the previous had passed in battle.<br/><br/>There was, however, one man who had threatened to break the peace. The son of the late chief, Sakuruta went against the people's wishes. He believed that it was his birthright to rule the Apache tribe and the clan that it now formed. He went as far as to challenge Hesutu to battle but when he had lost, the wounded snake resorted to shameful means. With the few men that still followed him he had planned to kill Hesutu in his sleep. When that was thwarted he and his followers were banished from the clan.<br/><br/>That had been many moons ago and the past was behind them. Now the talk was about the joining of the Sky people. A race that had kept to the skies for as long as the elders remembered. The memory of when he had first met one of those winged-beings was forever burned into this mind. They had the skin of snow, dark-haired and dark-eyed. They were surprised when he learned that Hesutu was capable of understanding it’s language, even more so when he found that they shared the same tongue.<br/><br/>In the beginning, the visits had been sparse and the conversations only touching upon one another's cultures and way of life. Towards the end, their presence became more frequent as such the sense of urgency within their words. When their last visit had come the bird spoke of an alliance between the Sky people and those of the ground. About a plague that was killing of their people and the only way to survive was to copulate with those who were immune to the sickness. Those of the tribes below.<br/><br/>After that the only communication from the Sky people was through Yamka, the hawk Hesutu had befriended. The message he had received told of the peace offering he was to receive for the cooperation of his people.