Mesoamerican Piece By Mia

Mesoamerican Piece

By Mia

*Chirp, Chirp* Chel woke up on her rug in her single little hut. She wanted to go back to sleep but her grumbling stomach kept her from it. Chel got up and walked over to her last night tortillas. She bit into a tortilla, “Bleh!...ugh.”She moaned to herself, “It’s stale.” She gave an upset look at the tortilla and stood up and grabbed her hand weaved basket, And left her hut. The sun hit her eyes like a punch. She winced and covered to sun with her hand. When she eventually got to the corn patch she removed her hand from her shielded eyes and, started picking corn. A few of the pointy grasses poked from time to time as she was getting the corn. Once Chel had a basket full of corn, she then headed back to her hut. Once she got home she used a type of grinder that she bought made of volcanic stone. She shucked the corn and put the kernels of corn on one side of the grinder and then she grabbed a cylinder of volcanic stone and rubbed the kernels of corn against the two stones and made a powder of such sorts. Then she took the powder and wet it. The powder became dough when she kneaded it. Then she started a fire and put a black bowl over it. She molded the dough and made little tortillas. She put the tortillas on the black bowl and they cooked. Chel turned and tossed the dough till it was all cooked. Once the tortillas were all done she had a few and left her hut for some errands. As Chel was leaving she brought a few items that would valuable for trading. When she left her hut she made sure that her entrance was secure and the no one would break in to her hut while she was gone. Chel left and was walking down her cobblestone streets towards the market. As she was walking she experienced the great temples and the carving of dragon heads on some of the pillars everyday. Chel kept walking till she found where the chatter grew and there was some music playing and some canopies to protect the traders from the sun. As Chel walked past some canopies she saw what valuable things the traders had. jems, diamonds, and even GOLD! There were some stalls with jade necklaces and jewelry. And some stalls had provisions, like apples, carrots, potatoes, and oranges. Chel headed over to her little part of the market. She laid down a blanket and opened her bag. She pulled out a few cobs of corn. And a few pieces of quartz she found while getting corn. She laid them all out and waited.

“Excuse me?” Chel looked up and saw and old villager.

“H-Hello!” Chel said statled she looked up at the sun it was on it’s way west. Past noon.(ugh)”C-Can I get you anything?”

“Yes, Yes you can.”

“Good... How?”

The villager snickered,”Your quartz, of course.”

“Oh, uh… Yeah. Give me a second.” Chel Grabbed up some stones and held the up to the man.

“Not that much all of it.” Chel stared at the man for a second.

“Ok,” Chel wrapped up all the stones in a single cloth and tooka bit of rope she had to tie it.”Here!” The man gave Chel something also wrapped up in cloth, gave it to her and left. Chel waited a bit longer and no one came. She looked up and she decided it was time to go back home. Chel packed her back and put the mysterious item wrapped in cloth and she folded the blanket up and headed home.

When Chel got home she gathered some apples and sliced them up. Chel totally forgot about the eclipse. Chel went over to a little flat stone she had and looked at a sheet of paper and did some science. When she was done she took a step outside her hut and looked up at the sky and there The brightest thing in the sky was the eclipse. Satisfied with her studies she quickly made more tortillas and ate some corn. Then she remembered something. She grabbed her pouch in her hands and took out that mysterious cloth. She unwrapped it and there in the middle was clay. Chel was surprised but she couldn’t turn down an opportunity to sculpt. And in the middle of all that clay was a chunk of gold.