Ulani climbed into a hollow of a tree where she swallowed the fish generously given to her by that kindly man.

She was cold without being close to a fire and was still wearing her very damp clothes.

She curled up shivering with cold, she was full now after having eat the two fish but she was not just cold she was very lonely.

Desperation decided to override her fearful mind as she crawled out of her hollowed out tree.

Walking quietly back to the camp she saw that the big man was fast asleep with the fire still going. He also wore a hide for a blanket.

Her observant eyes spotted the extra room under the hide rather easily.

She lifted a piece of wood off the pile and nearly dropped it as it was way to heavy for a girl her size. But she managed after a lot of tugs and pulls to slowly drag it to the fire and push it on top causing the fire to grow a bit bigger casting the camp with a lot more warmth.

That done she ignored all instincts to stay away and instead crawled over to the big guy and squeezed under his giant hide cuddling up as close as she could to him laying her cheek upon the man's chest where she could hear the steady, soothing sound of his heart beating.

There she fell fast asleep without a second thought.

Maui had been dead asleep when he slowly began to feel something very wet against his stomach.

He woke instantly thinking at first that it was raining but realized there was no water falling.

He then looks down by his chest believing the island had flooded.

But there nestled quietly against his chest was the same tiny slip of a child that had tried to steal fish from him earlier.

She was snuggled under part of his hide and was very damp and shivering violently with cold.

He was a bit concerned as he wondered where her mother was. He looked around the camp in case she was only a few feet away but saw no sign in the immediate area that she was anywhere around.

He knew he ought to wake the young girl and escort her home but the poor girl looked so tuckered out and cold that he decided he would let the child sleep and take her home in the morning.

Even though he was very taken aback by this little action of the child he found it very heartwarming, he loved humans but most of all he loved children.

He lay a bit more of his hide over the child even though it now left half of his own body in the cold.

Smiling her crooked an arm around her to keep anything dangerous from hurting her and slipped back to sleep.

Throughout the night he kept waking himself up to check on the child fearful lest he were to accidentally roll over and hurt her as he was so big and she so incredibly small.

By the time morning light came he was exhausted even for a demigod. The child was still snoozing next to him .

Careful to not crush her or hurt her he gently removed her head from his chest as well as his other arm.

Bending over the girl he shook her as gently as possible.

The child's brown eyes blink open and gazes up at him with a confidence that hadn't been displayed earlier.

"Hi, I think it's time I took you home." he suggested kindly.

The little girl sat up and refused to look at him as she responded.

"But but you can't take me home."

Maui raised an eyebrow "And why ever not?"

The child hung her head "I have no home to go back to."

Maui was suspicious "now everyone has family everyone has a home."

"Not me, my family don't want me, they say I'm cursed and they tried to kill me with pitchforks." she admitted.

Maui thought about his own mother who had so carelessly thrown him into the ocean.

His heart ached for the poor kid as he pulled him into his chest.

A thought came to him.

"But maybe I can find somebody that will take you into their home, in fact I have friend that's newly engaged to be married she and her intended might just want a baby girl of their own." He offered her.

"Are you sure they won't hate my marked face?" she asked fearfully.

Maui scooped her up and hugs her once more.

"Child.."then he stopped.

"It just occured to me that I don't really know your name." he admitted softly.

"my name is Ulani, I'm four years old." she was quick to inform him holding a tiny hand out.

Maui took it with only a thumb and forefinger and shakes her tiny hand as gently as possible.

"It's my pleasure to meet you Ulani, I am Maui, demigod of the wind and sea."

"Now Ulani as I was saying there's absolutely nothing wrong with your face. It's beautiful and uniquely you." he told her.

Ulani broke into a smile as her heart easily latches onto the only person that had never seen her mark as a disfigurement.

"Now let's get you to this friend of mine, if I know my Moana she wouldn't mind taking a homeless unwanted little girl into her home."

Ulani wasn't complaining as he carried her towards the boats.