Myths, Caves and Calafia.
Once upon a time, there lived a man named Sam-us (pronounced: sam- oose). He was the most ambitious man in the land of kings. When he reached the age of 17 he led a rebellion against the king of kings, his surrogate father. He defeated his surrogate in bloody war on the 76th day and it cost many men their lives. Too many to be counted. With his victory came spoils and the spoils became wealth and his wealth became power. And like most men, his victories led to a vain understanding of his purpose and worth. The men who fought alongside him worshiped him nearly in equity as they did their gods and they followed him as his ambition turned to greed and his greed into addiction.
He acquired many women as he plundered the land of kings and murdered men along with women and children as he enforcing his will. Those that survived, were forced to learn Sam-us’s native tongue or be imprisoned.

Sam-us’s victories over many peaceful nations led him to believe he was destined to rule them all and entitled to all treasures in every land. He took a wife every time he conquered a nation and his house eventually became a harem.
Eventually, all nations in his vicinity submitted to his will, like his women. All his brides were obedient and subservient and he believed the entire world should be under his jurisdiction. He found frustration in the brief periods of peace he experienced after conquest. His worth was gone without it and he lost meaning in his one dimensional perception of himself when he had no conquest to gloat upon. It was in this time that he fell into a great depression.
However, a scout informed him of a new potential plunder. An island which had the most bountiful treasures and far more riches than any of his previous plunders combined. All on one island. And the best part of it all, was that the island was rumored to be inhabited by the most beautiful woman ever encountered by the eye of man.

The natives said her skin shined like gold in her silk-woven dress. They said she was more beautiful than the sea, and as delicate as rose petals. Sam-us perked his eyes and posture when he heard of this woman on this mythical island. He gave it no thought and summoned his men overnight. By morning his campaign to reach the beauty and her island was underway.

Sam-us had to pass the most barren desert and topple the highest peak he and his men had ever seen in order to find the woman he sought after. After crossing the arduous obstacles and losing many of his men along the journey he found her, playing on the beach with native beasts in a sun-golden silk dress. Her dress and her skin appeared gold in color because the sun adored her spirit and the sunlight lingered along her essence. Beautiful did not justly describe her. She was so well spirited, that all the animals played in harmony around her.

Sam-us was so obsessed by taking what he already deemed his own that he hardly noticed her beauty, he only payed attention to her dress and how it glowed in the sunlight.
“Come woman! You are mine to keep now”, Sam-us said.
The woman turned around concerned, but not afraid of the man that stand before her covered in heavy clothes that shielded his delicate skin from the sun.
“I am no brute’s property!” she replied. “Leave my island and take the fools who destroy the delicate flowers beneath them with their heavy footprints with you!”
Sam-us had never been spoken to like this by a woman before. He took off his cover and approached the woman vigorously. To his surprise she did not flee. He grabbed her sternly by the arm and asked, “What is your name woman? I will allow you to keep your name as you have heart. But you will not keep your freedom from my rule!”
“Cal-li (pronounced: Kal-lee) is my name. It would be my name despite your trespasses and I will keep my willful spirit no matter what efforts you make to silence me.”
Sam-us became infuriated. He struck Cal-li to the sand. She resisted, and slapped him in defense. A gesture that drew Sam-us to bloodlust. He pounded Cal-li with that back of his knuckles over and over again. Until she was bloody, bruised and nearly unconscious.
Sam-us — “You shall never be separate of me woman, I am your master now.”
Sam-us growled and grunted as he pummeled Cal-li. All the young animals hid behind the rocks and trees. Some fled to the forest as they saw the merciless violence Sam-us utilized to enslave their most beloved caretaker.

Cal-li went limp and Sam-us dragged her to his mobile empires front.
“I shall never… be.. your…. Certainty”, Cal-li whispered. As she was taken away by the warlord’s men.
Cal-li was sent to Sam-us’s mobile harem. There her jewelry was taken by the women who learned to take what they could, when they could as Sam-us did not readily share his wealth, even with his women. Cal-li watched as Sam-us set his sights on other nations and acquired other women. He took Miness, then Oregin, then an indigenous woman whose name was Color-Red. Her heart ached for those that were acquired by force and those who joined his empire because they feared Sam-us’s war-machine. But it became too much for her when she saw the youngest of his brides I-avvah (pronounced: ee-av-uh) taken forcefully from her king when she was just a child.
Sam-us continued to wage war but he no longer took brides as even his harem was no longer able to sustain any more women. Cal-li concluded, enough was enough. So she snuck away under the pale light of a crescent moons glow and fled back to her island. She knew Sam-us wouldn’t let her go easily and that he would pursue her for the sake of his own maniacal ego. So she strategized a plan and hid deep in the dense forest in the middle of her island home. Then she waited.
Only a day and a half had passed before Sam-us’s Red Army had arrived at the forest’s edge. They tracked her successfully and coordinated plans for her re-capture.
A bird of prey alarmed her of the Red Army’s arrival and she calmly waited by the river's edge at the bottom of a waterfall that ran through the forest’s center. The Red Army advanced zealously without concern as Sam-us lead the way. Sam-us grinned viciously as they drew near Cal-li, who lay waiting below the waterfall near the river’s edge. He approached her brazenly as he did when he first acquired her.
Cal-li stood calmly as he approached her with his men in tow. The men eagerly awaited the showcase of violent authority Sam-us was used to employing. He grabbed her by the hair and pushed her to her knees.
Sam-us — “Nice try woman, but I told you…you shall never be separate of me!” Sam-us then raised his hand above his head in preparation to strike Cal-li.
Cal-li — “And I told you, your certainty, I will never be……URSUS!”
Groooaah!

A growl came from the belly of a cave near the entrance of the waterfall. Sam-us’s men turned in surprise. Their eyes widened in fright as they witnessed the flailing of dry dirt emanating from the cave. The men slowly stepped back and Sam-us let loose of his grip on Cal-li’s hair.
GrooaaaAH!
Dirt flailed yet again…
GrooaaaAAH!
Another burst of dry dirt dispersed through the air at the cave's entrance, creating a fireless smoke screen that could not be seen through.
And then…….
GROOOOOAAAAAARRR!!!!

Ursus burst through the cloud of aerosolized soil, charging swiftly at Sam-us. Sam-us fell to his back as he tried to flee the raging bear. Sam-us’s men fled as they saw the grizzly emerge and charge from the depths of the cave.
Ursus approached Sam-us as he lay stunned, helpless and unprepared on the ground.
Ursus brought his brow to the tip of Sam-us’s nose and cried as forcefully as he could, GROOOAAARRRRRR!!!!!!!

Sam-us closed his eyes in terror. And Ursus came to his hind legs, ready to strike Sam-us with the full force of his claws.

But just then, Cal-li touched Ursus on his belly, calming him and he dropped his claw to his side. Cal-li hugged her grizzly bear. He was one of the young animals that hid in a fright when Sam-us took Cal-li by force. Although, he was just a cub back then. But now he was full grown and the keeper of the island in her absence.
Cal-li said to Ursus, “Easy my grizzly cub….easy my grizzly bear.” Ursus returned to all fours and cuddled his head on Cal-li happily as she scratched the back of his ear.
Grooah? Ursus remarked as he swung his head and glance at Sam-us.
“He will go Ursus.” Cal-li replied.
Ursus looked at Sam-us and growled. “Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!”
“It’s okay Ursus. He will not attempt to suppress our freedom again, because he knows now that it doesn’t belong to him. He just hoped that we would be subdued into believing that we owed him our freedom. But we’ve always known better haven’t we my big grizzly cub?”
Ursus — “Grooah!”
Cal-li told Sam-us, “You may return to your men and your land. Learn the virtues of true freedom and you may be welcomed here. But for now be gone Sam-us.”
Ursus scratched the floor with his mighty claws aggressively, shooing away Sam-us.
Ursus-“RoooooaaAAAR!”
Sam-us fled swiftly to safety. And Cal-li, liberated and reunited with Ursus, played in the pool below the waterfall, in the forest on the mythical Island of Calafia.

The end!
