>>5420083>Photo: Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park>Alt Text: A Hawaiian Ipu gourd on a vine next to three containers made from Ipu guards tied with rope and closed with stonesAgana stares at her hands
Agana: This Island issand! Every day I try to hold it together but it just spills through my fingers. Get a good look, this is your life now. Burning arms just to paddle above water.
“We’ve done so much. The material-”
Agana: Another thing to bicker over. I keep it so they don’t kill eachother and they hate me fo rit.
She stumbles to her desk and wildly shuffles through the papers until she pulls out a document.
Agana: This was mom’s plan you know. Before I got her kilt right...
She wobbles her arm around the room, coming to a stop pointing at a wall
Agana: over there. All the money, all the power. One place one Axe. She died cuz I didnt ‘ant that an here we are anyway.
She leans against the desk.
Agana: I think you’ll win Lono. I dunno if Nordom will go esy. I don’t know if the raiders will stop. I don’t know if the Taya won’t try to take theri city back.
She walks toward you and claps her hands on your shoulders. Her eyes are glassy.
Agana: Every day. We wake up with our heads attached, is a gift of The Loa.
“I think you need rest.”
You walk her to bed, and she flops down.
Agana: I was wrong to ask you to do this. Nobetter n our parents. Pushin us to be tools instead of people.
You sit beside her.
Lono: Well, what’s a couple of childhoods compared to the fate of The Island?
She covers her eyes with her hands at pulls them down her face
Agana: Fuck man, I’m worse than Makky.
Lono: Well you haven’t punched out a chief yet, so I think she’s got you beat.
Agana: *pfft* I’ve been tempted. You know Zees threatened to secede?
Lono: What?!
Agana: Right when we moved the Hall here. Had to threaten to cut him off from the Great Peace. Full immunity to any person ro tribe who wanted to start shit with them.
Lono: Fuck Aggy, it was that bad?
Agana: I blew hundreds of people and a year and a half on a vanity project. They saw wweakemsss. That snake you’re running aagisnt was the only thing keeping me in this Loa damned building.
Lono: I’ll beat her as you said. We’ll make a world where people don't have to worry like us.
Agana: You always were the dreamer.
Agan begins to fade to sleep. To see someone of her stature consumed like this, is the weight of The Ax that heavy? You’ve seen Makana on benders before, but this is something different, something darker. What can you do?
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