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Fari and Inkesha, who have been married for 6 months, spent some days alone not far from the band as other monogamous couples did at times. They spent 5 days together, just the two of them. On their last day in the late afternoon as they began passing by some shrubs growing dark green, spade-shaped leaves striped with reddish veins, grievous crying became audible. The couple indicated the bushes as the source of the noise.

"It sounds like a baby crying," said the female.

"Yeah," responded the white male. "It may be. Let's check."

The gorillas approached the plants and spread apart their branches. They discovered an albino male infant about the age of 9 months lying next to the stems of the shrubs. When he noticed the adults he stopped giving distressed calls and looked at them with heart-sunk light blue eyes.

"I want my mommy," he squeezed out.

"When and where did you last see your mommy," enquired Inkesha in a concerned way as she crawled deeper into the greenery to pick the baby up.

"I don't know. She took me off of her back and put me here yesterday afternoon after feeding me and told me to wait here, she'll be back. I fell asleep, I woke up in the morning and I didn't see her. I waited for her but she didn't come. Then, I cried for her but she didn't come. I'm very hungry," he answered disappointedly in tears as the girl was lifting him off of the ground and bringing him nearer her.

Before holding him close, Fari's mate examined him visually. He seemed healthy, his fur was soft and shiny, not unkempt, nor dirty, he wasn't underweight, and he was about the size he was supposed to be.

"It seems his mother abandoned him. I don't know of any other troop having albinos except mine. He may be from my band," concluded the white male.

His mate cuddled him, the boy didn't refuse.

"She left him yesterday afternoon, the troop had plenty of time to rove off. I'm unsure we would be able to find them, moreover if we would venture too far we might encounter Sharam and it wouldn't end well for either of us. He's pretty strong and has a horrible nature, I don't think you'd be able to protect us from him," expounded Fari's wife.

"Then, I guess we have to take him home. We can't just leave him out here to starve," said the male.

"Right. How am I going to feed him? I have no milk! There are some women in the band who had babies not too long ago including my mother. I don't know who would want to allow him to suckle. I'm not friends with those other ladies, my only female friend is Terk, who hasn't any milk either. My mom seems to be the only hope so far..." complained Inkesha.

"If your mom doesn't give in we're going to have to try the other females. If this is the case I suggest we ask for help together, maybe my presence alongside yours will convince them into feeding him," advised Fari. "By the way it is possible for a female who isn't pregnant to lactate. This happened in my band. A young lady, who has never even mated before adopted the baby of another woman who rejected her. Within 2-3 weeks she began making milk. What helped her was consuming an herb that aids lactation on a regular basis, allowing the baby to stimulate the function of her breasts by letting it suckle and having support in the..." he informed her, his tone gradually getting more and more depressing and desperate until his negative emotions defeated his power to speak.

He burst out in tears.

"Fari, what's wrong," asked his mate.

"It's not a good thing," he groaned and kept weeping.

"What's not good," asked the female.

"My problem," he squeezed out. "You'll be split from this point on between him and me. This is really going to change our marriage. I'm already jealous of him. Inkesha, I miss you already if you know what I mean...," he continued in tears.

"I know... we'll have less alone time for each other. He requires a lot of attention but as he grows older he'll require less," she, acknowledging the gravity of the changes described by her husband, answered sadly then, continued whispering very quietly and dismally to Fari, "I really miss you too, I understand that you're jealous. This is not how we wanted to live our lives, I never wanted to be a mom, never, now, within a second I became one!"

She released a loud sigh and started shedding tears.

"I'm hungry," said the baby.

The white silverback's wife cleared her throat, took a breath and managed to answer her new adopted son.

"We'll head back to the troop and find a way to feed you," she replied melancholically.

"Why don't you feed me," he asked.

"I can't, I don't have any milk, but I will make some for you and then, I'll be able to feed you," she responded. "There are some females in the troop that can give you milk. We'll ask them to feed you. Now, let's go back to the band," she added.

Inkesha placed him on her back and the couple started wondering to their destination. During their journey they noticed some giant moths similar in color and design to cecropia silk moths fluttering around a dense bush spotted with sweet, pleasant smelling, yellow, funnel-shaped flowers.

"Look over there," chimed Inkesha glancing at the winged insects.

She began creeping close to them.

"Mommy, I'm scared," declared the albino baby whilst laying low on the gorilla lady's back.

"You don't have to be afraid. They're just moths. They don't bite, they won't hurt you. They may fly around you or land on you," she explained.

The infant still remained low for a short while then, gradually rose to see the critters.

"The ones on the leaves are fatter than the flying ones. Are they too fat to fly," he enquired.

"They look fat because they are full of eggs, they're girls and the ones fluttering around them are boys," she expounded. "The girls can fly despite their size."

Inkesha reached towards a female moth sitting on a leaf. She carefully neared her pointer finger towards her head. The moth placed its front legs then, the other pairs on her finger as she moved it. Fari carefully approached his mate and the infant not to scare away the insect.

"Mommy, can we take her with us," asked the boy.

"Yes, we can," she replied as she placed her hand closer and closer to Fari's upper back.

"What are you doing," he responded uncomfortably, widening his sky blue eyes.

"Putting the moth on your back, so that we can take her home," she answered. "Now, hold still."

The female gingerly situated the moth on her mate's back. The apes wondered home.

As the events involving Inkesha, Fari and their adopted son were unfolding so were the ones regarding Terkina and King Kong. The couple was resting in their nest when they herd the loud human chanting of Terk's name which the humid air conveyed.

"Seems our humans want you," said the silverback glancing at her with his yellow eyes.

"Interesting. Ever since you introduced me to them they have called us together," answered his mate.

"Want me to go with you," offered the male.

"Yes," responded Terk.

The gorillas sauntered down to the wall which the tribe of the unknown race stood on whilst anticipating their arrival. After creeping between the trees and shrubs they caught site of an adult female of their species having the same hairstyle as Terk. The dark-skinned people having spotted the ape couple finished saying Kong's wife's name and began ogling in a confused way at the similar looking ladies who were also studying each other visually. The Terk look-alike was older than Terk, a few silver hairs stood out from the raven black ones on her head, her breasts were larger than Terk's and her eyes were orange in color.

"Ukuri," uttered the older female questioningly while looking at King Kong's life-mate.

"Who's Ukuri," asked the female.

"She was my first child," replied the lady nearly identical to Terk. "She was taken away from me when I was unconscious. She had the same eye color as you do and her hair stood up like ours. When I became conscious again I saw that she was missing," she expounded then, winced in pain. "My lower belly is really hating me right now! Speaking of that, two months after I had her I menstruated when I wasn't supposed to and it was more painful than usual, I even fainted. After a while I woke up without her near me," she added.

"That's interesting. I never knew my mother. A human ex-friend of mine told me that they found my mother and me together near a jungle. They told me that my mom was dead then, they took me away. I was raised by them," explained Terkina. "By the way I rarely have hard periods during which I pass out. I have had 3 of those so far in my life."

"I met humans too. When I wondered further from the troop they launched something small and blackish at my nose which broke into pieces. As I inhaled I felt more and more light-headed then, passed out. When I woke up, I found myself bound on some unknown place that was moving on blue water. The humans noticed I was awake and threw a wet towel on my face. I passed out again. They kept watch of me, every time I would wake up, they'd put the towel on my face and I'd lose consciousness. Not too long ago I woke up on this island. The humans here gave me a noisy welcome. They kept chanting "terk". What is a terk," she replied.

"What they threw at you is a substance that makes you pass out, it's kept in nearly black bottles. It's strange that they steal you from the wild and bring you here. Wait, you're not from Skull Island. By the way this place is called Skull Island. My human ex-friend told me that my mother is not from Skull Island and neither am I. Our stories are related, we look quite alike, we're not from Skull Island and you have hard periods at times when I do. Could you be my mother? By the way my name's Terkina, but you can call me Terk for short," answered the younger female.

"My name's Ishema. Ukuri would look just like you at your age. I remember her scent. Can I smell you," asked the older gorilla lady.

"Okay," said Terk.

The female approached her and began sniffing her. The results shocked her.

"You must be Ukuri," she exclaimed. "You're my long lost daughter! But how is Terkina your name?"

Ishema hugged her newly found daughter. Terkina returned the embrace and discovered her mother's scent is quite related to hers. Both females were very happy. They parted, studied each other visually then, held each other close again only tighter and longer this time. The tribe of humans, who were amazed, watched them.

"The humans have called me Terk or Terkina as long as I can remember. I guess Terk is my human name but Ukuri is my gorilla name that you gave me," she answered. "The people that found us may have thought that you're dead by the way."

"So, now I have a mother-in-law," asked King Kong.

The older gorilla looked at the silverback. Her daughter and she let go of each other.

"Ukuri, who's this gorgeous male," Ishema asked.

"Mom, this is King Kong. He's my life-mate. We've almost been together as mates for 10 years," she replied.

"Do you have a child," she enquired.

"No, we don't, we don't want kids," answered Kong's wife.

"How did you two meet? You also mentioned that humans brought you up. How," wondered Terk's mom.

"We'll tell you about these things on the way home," responded her daughter.

The 3 apes roved back to the troop while Ishema got acquainted with Terk and Kong and vice versa. Fari's and King Kong's family arrived at their band via routes differing from each other's in the early nighttime. They caught sight of a crowd consisting of mostly females surrounding Keyta's and Kurudi's nest. It turned out that Kurudi recently gave birth to Keyta's daughter.

"I'm very hungry," said Little Fari in a desperate tone.

Inkesha had named her adopted son after her mate. His original name was quite inappropriate, which made the couple appalled.

"We're going right now to find you a female that can feed you," replied Inkesha.

Terk's party neared Inkesha's, the members greeted each other and got acquainted. Ishema, having never seen albinos before, asked why Fari and his adoptive son are a different color. The white silverback explained his and his infant's condition to her then, asked her, having noticed her swollen breasts, if she has got milk.

"I have plenty of milk, I'll nurse your baby," she replied while taking the boy.

He urgently latched on and hungrily drank.

"How do you have milk when you're menstruating and don't have a child," questioned her daughter.

"About 2 months ago I had a miscarriage. I was pregnant from a silverback who lost a fight with his opponent, they were fighting over me. I felt bad for the loser and chose him, which made the winner enraged. 7 months after our mating, when I was alone, his rival snuck up on me from behind, yanked me back making me expose my belly, which he forcefully punched. Then, I miscarried. I haven't processed this trauma yet," she dolefully answered.

"Sorry to hear that," said Terk.

"Sorry, you lost your baby," responded Inkesha. "Speaking of baby, would you nurse Little Fari until I will be able to make milk, moreover enough of it for him," requested Inkesha.

"Yes," replied Ishema.

"Thank you very much," she gratefully said. "You have saved him. The only females I'm in good relations with are my mother, who is also breastfeeding, and Terk. It would have been unpleasant for me to ask the other women and even my mom a bit since Little Fari is albino and because he's different they probably wouldn't have done it out of free will or would have rejected us saying that they don't have enough milk for two. Moreover I barely know the other girls and I differ greatly from them," she added.

"You're welcome," she replied warmly. "You're different as the way Ukuri described, right?"

"Yes," answered Fari's wife.

The white male gently made the moth crawl on his hand while reaching back then, showed everyone the creature.

"Woah," exclaimed Terk's mother. "That thing is huge!"

"Yeah," answered the adult albino. "These are one of the biggest moth species here on Skull Island. This one we found when bringing the baby home. It's female. He wanted us to bring her with us, so we can say this is his pet," he added.

The creature, having a body length the same length as two thirds of a giant gorilla's finger, slowly opened and closed her mostly grayish reddish wings.

"I'll be right back, I'm going to place the moth on the bush next to our nest," said Fari.

He succeeded in slowly and cautiously approaching the lime green-leafed shrub dotted with vivid tangerine, simple flowers then, situated the creature on one of them who began sipping nectar with her long, thin proboscis. The gathering of his species around his friend's nest had already dispersed, everyone among them had wandered back to his or her own dwelling place. The male was so occupied with settling Little Fari's new pet and with his thoughts about the unplanned changes in his life that he was blind to his surroundings which included Keyta and his new family. After finishing his business he hurried back to his party. Keyta and Kurudi, having observed his seemingly negligent behavior, became offended not only at him but at his party, who were also occupied with themselves. The new parents studied the group. They were surprised to discover that there was a foreign female among them, whose looks matched Terk's from their distance, who seemed to be cradling something in her arms. Seconds later, Little Fari felt full and Ishema returned him to Inkesha. What also shocked Keyta and Kurudi was the sight of the albino baby. What they witnessed raised questions in them such as who is the Terk look-alike and how does she end up on the island when Terk isn't a native and was Inkesha secretly pregnant. The group of 5 finished meaningfully conversing. Ishema began making her nest among the ones of her new family and friends, King Kong and Terkina headed back to theirs and prepared for a good night's sleep. Fari, Inkesha and Little Fari were also ready to sleep. Not having enough room in the nest for three, their new baby slept on the female's chest and belly. All of these apes had forgotten about Keyta's and Kurudi's new arrival. The next day when they had noticed the pair's new family member they had congratulated them and apologized for being late on this because they were very busy with each other and their new arrivals. Keyta and his mate understood this and also congratulated Fari and Inkesha for their new addition.