Hello! Sam's still on the planet. I just need to get to Naysa's birth, and they return to Earth, then were are back, and you'll finally get to know why Henry Hayes was such an ass when he was so lovely before. It will take time tho. xD

Enjoy!

M.

Chapter 18

Fewashi led Sam to a bench, close to them the elders sat closely together, and soon they felt more than saw the movement. They had stopped at a point to have a meal, she had stopped calling it dinner or lunch or breakfast when she had stopped dividing the days in night and day after figuring out that night lasted around four hours twice a day, and midday lasted another four with the two suns out there.

She saw the elders trying to build a fire, and she stopped them and made one with the ease of experience. Something that she had regretted the moment she saw the reaction and the whispers that followed when her fire started. A

They stood there for a while then, they were huddled back to the trailer, and the trip started again. A trip to where? She didn't know. Until they stopped again and this time for good. The city was different from the town where she had been living. Although the constructions seemed to keep the same structure, some building of an unknown material and the tent like fabric as doors.

And then she noticed something, there was something shiny on all the ceilings and she was pretty sure they were solar panels. But she couldn't ask because didn't know how. Also, there was a little fact that she was being pushed to walk ahead.

They arrived in the middle of the city; there was what she only could explain as an amphitheater of sorts. And she was pushed down to the middle where the stage was. Once they were there, people started to enter. And they kept coming until there was no space to put a needle in. One of the elders cleared his throat. And for the first time, she felt something akin to fear.

And then, Fewashi stood up and extended her hand to Carter. Sam doubted for a while, but the healer nodded once, giving her a reassuring smile. And she took it. The Doctor walked her to the middle of the stage, and Sam curiosity got the best of her when she saw her image amplified on screens. Well, that was until embarrassment for looking green and dirty took over for a couple of seconds until she sobered up. And fear settled making her stand tall and look around for whatever could happen. And then, the elder pointed at her saying:

"Malachi isu wedek'e yerkink"

And she had no idea what the hell that meant, but she knew it was about her. She was after all their Malachi. And the crowd went crazy; they scream things at them. The only thing she could grasp was "Yelemi irisiwa Malachi," she knew yelemi was no, and that she was Malachi… by context, she figured someone thought she wasn't Malachi.

She was about to speak to tell them she wasn't Malachi, that her name was Sam, Samantha Carter-O'Neill, Tau'ri from Earth. But a quick gesture of Fewashi told her that it was better if she didn't. The elder continued going and gesturing and saying things once the crowd fell silent.

"Malachi praat," the chief told her nodding towards the group. And she frowned. What could she say? Maybe someone hopefully had heard a version of English similar to the ones they had found over the years.

"Hi, my name is Samantha Carter, Colonel, USAF…" the crowd blinked at her, and she figured no one understood a word of what she had said, but the elder told her to continue, "I'm from a planet most know as Tau'ri," the elder gasped. And exchanged and excited conversation with the rest of the elders from 'her tribe.' And then, he signaled her to go on. "Is there a Stargate around here? A chapa'ai?"

"Yeleni Chapa'ai," the elder told her sadly. "var negerochi."

"I don't understand," she tried. He smiled softly and caressed her hair fatherly.

"Malachi oglaq. Malachi mek'oyeti menim ts'yegh." The mumbling started again. "Rayizamama?" He asked loudly, and extended arms replaced the words. The elders that came with them walked around the theater searching and looking around, what she didn't know for sure, but soon they joined them. And one of them concluded.

"Rayzam."

And the crowd started to leave. Once the theater was empty, Fewashi led her to a house. And specifically to the shower, for which she was grateful. The slush was starting to get hard on her skin, and the Doctor gave her more green ointment to replace what she cleaned afterward. Then, they walked towards another building, where the meal was served. She didn't notice how hungry she was until the roast smell entered her nostrils and she dug as if she was starving, making the healer and the elders laugh wholeheartedly repeating, "Malachi oglaq."

"Malachi," Fewashi called her softly, and she stopped eating and raised her eyes to find a very amused doctor. The healer extended her arm and pointed to a table full of children and said: "oglaq."

Sam frowned, then she figured they were calling her kid. She considered for a while, physically wasn't oglaq, but her inability to speak... That indeed placed her around the children of the town.

"Oglaq?" Sam asked pointing to the children, and Fewashi nodded, then she pointed to herself, "Malachi Oglaq?" and the doctor laughed.

"Kehone, yanite Oglaq."

They started their trip back once the meal was finished and everyone had gotten a chance to go to the washroom. The journey was slow, and once they stopped for the next meal, the elders started the same process that Fewashi had begun since day one. Pointing something and telling her how it was called, made her repeat it and then they tried hard not to laugh when her accent got in the way of their words.

With each passing day, she started to feel better and tired and hungry, and she remembered the reason behind it: she was pregnant, and she had almost forgotten about it. She needed to let Fewashi know… she didn't quite know how.

"Fewashi…" she got her attention during one of the communal meals. Fewashi moved her head in askance. Sam pointed to a group of young girls with bellies which could only mean they were pregnant, then the Colonel moved her hands to show a belly, and Fewashi nodded,

"Kehone, gelecek inatochi."

"Gelecek Inatochi?" Sam frowned, and Fewashi sighed. She moved her hands as if she was carrying a baby. And Sam nodded

"Inatochi…" then she pointed to the girls, "Gelecek inatochi," Sam shook her head because she wasn't sure what the doctor was saying. Fewashi thought for a while, "Fewashi inatochi Ajin."

"Ajin… your son? Inatochi means mother?" she asked to herself, as she wrote down the new word. In her now bigger notepad of sorts.

"Malachi inatochi," she told Fewashi after a while. And Fewashi lowered her head sadly, making Sam think she said something wrong. "Yelemi… how on Earth one says pregnant? Malaki inatochi gelecek?" she tried, getting the Doctor's attention.

"Malachi?" she trailed, and then she made the air belly that Sam had made earlier, "inatochi gelecek?"

"Yelemi." Sam nodded. And it was like understanding dawned over Fewashi for a while. Then, she stood up and grabbed Carter's hand making her stand up and walk along her. They reached the middle of the room, and Fewashi pulled a band which was apparently attached to some bells, and that got the attention of everyone.

"El alenyi xeber!" Fewashi said loud enough to be heard in the whole room, "Malachi inatochi gelecek."

And the crowd cheered loudly. And Sam felt overwhelmed by emotions she never thought she would feel. The elders joined them at the center and after making her sit on a bench, one by one they kissed her cheek, telling her "desita," Then the last one, the one she considered now the spokesman, turned around.

"Malachi, inatochi gelecek. Desita! Neria!" and the crowd started to cheer repeating seven times, "Neria Malachi inatochi gelecek."

It took her a while to get used to the rhythm of the ts'yegh. But she was slowly getting to it. The routine started to settle when she finally got out of the green slush. However, Fewashi had changed her green ointment for a mud based one she had to use to protect herself from the sun. And she had to admit that even if the medicine was highly homeopathic, it was effective. The green slush had healed her burns and had kept her skin intact. So when the brown one was given, she took it gladly.

And once she was finally able to understand more, her belly was big, and the town still didn't felt quite like a home. Yet, she was feeling more acquainted with it. She had managed to get her hands on their tech to figure out there were a form of solar panels what they were using in the ceilings and improved them with what she knew of crystal technology, which translated in more warm water for the houses and better keep the food.

She couldn't see her feet any longer, when the chief of the elders Krag, had walked her to a mountain she used to enjoy looking while sharing the work of the tribe. And then, he told her something that started to turn the wheels in her mind.

"Neria Malachi yelemi chapa'ai." She nodded, she knew there wasn't a stargate on the town. "Dag menonya antieke."

"Menonya antieke?" she asked him again.

"Kehone."

And then he turned around and asked her to follow him back to the town. That whole night she kept herself awake thinking what exactly Krag had meant with "mountain is the home of the aged."