Hau’oli wau aia oe ma Ko’u ola

With her day’s chores done, Keahi moves to the kitchen to finish prepping a very special meal. Since arriving in the Armada, there had been a clear distaste from certain wolves toward a member of Fatalis family and some of the wolves are Ophelia’s own siblings. The red woman had silently observed, taking note of the limited interactions the obese wolf had with other members of the pack and she felt a great sadness for her. The tropical wolf saw the way others had crinkled their noses and made faces at Ophelia and that was when Keahi had decided that the round Fatalis child needed someone to be a support to her… and the tropical woman is going to try to help.

The smell of smoked, seasoned food wafts through the surrounding dens as Keahi continues to work on the special dish that she had enjoyed in her homeland. The meat is from a wild boar that she brought down and she had been sure to carefully season it before putting it in an underground imu that she had dug. The oven had been lined with hot rocks, coals carefully cultivated and then spread in the middle with hot embers mixed in. Keahi had then laid the seasoned pig that had been wrapped with long bananas leaves (those had been expensive but worth it to get) and covered and tied in a burlap sack, on top of a wire mesh that had been laid on the coals. With that, she had covered the pit up and waited.

Now, in the kitchen, she carefully shreds the tender, smoked pork watching as steam rolls off the meat in fragrant waves. Keahi hums to herself as she separates the meat from the bones and a huge platter of delicious meat begins to pile up next to her. Hopefully the wolf she wants to share the food with has already smelled the meal and come to investigate but just in case… as Keahi places the last of the smoked pig on the huge platter, the tropical wolf releases a low call, asking for Ophelia to join her in the kitchen. The red woman hopes that the obese wolf likes kālua pig as much as she does.


"Keahi Mogotsi"

(Hau’oli wau aia oe ma Ko’u ola: I am glad to have you in my life)