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Clans
George Horton
Austin Macauley Publishers
2019-10-30
Clans About The Author Copyright Information © Synopsis Prologue Part One Chapter One Spring Hunt Chapter Two Home Caves Chapter Three Calendar Chapter Four Summer Festival Enlightenment Chapter Five The Great Hunt Chapter Six Calendar Develops Part Two Chapter Seven The Tufek and the Adnin Chapter Eight Expedition to the Sea Chapter Nine Attack on the Mizuki Part Three Chapter Ten The Vornay clan – The Horse People Chapter Eleven The Great Plain Chapter Twelve A Meeting Chapter Thirteen Caves Abandoned Chapter Fourteen Fred comes down from the Caves Chapter Fifteen Second Journey to the Sea Cave Chapter Sixteen The Vornay Abandon the Eastern Plain Chapter Seventeen A Hard Winter Chapter Eighteen Start of the Vornay’s Great Trek Chapter Nineteen The Vornay Arrive Chapter Twenty The Summer Festival Chapter Twenty-One First Expedition South Part Four Chapter Twenty-Two Geyin – The City of the Adnin Chapter Twenty-Three An Army Slaughtered Chapter Twenty-Four The Expedition Returns Chapter Twenty-Five The Priest Escapes, Fred Is Attacked Chapter Twenty-Six A Second Expedition Chapter Twenty-Seven Mia Chapter Twenty-Eight The Clan and the Tufek Chapter Twenty-Nine Into the Forest Chapter Thirty To the City Chapter Thirty-One The Palace Chapter Thirty-Two Horses Chapter Thirty-Three A Journey Home Chapter Thirty-Four Horses and Bison Part Five Chapter Thirty-Five Nearly Home Chapter Thirty-Six The City Saved Chapter Thirty-Seven Jenny Chapter Thirty-Eight Mike Makes a Decision Chapter Thirty-Nine Third Expedition South
About The Author

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George is married with two grown sons. He is a retired technician in computer manufacturing and lives in Ayrshire. When not there, he can be found at his static caravan near the Solway Firth, looking directly out on to the Irish Sea, and if not, he will be in Canada with his older son and family. He was in the Royal Military Police (TA) for twenty years. Inspiration for Clans came from years of camping and trekking in Scotland and Canada.
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Synopsis
This is the story of five cave-dwelling clans of humans who lived nine-thousand years ago in what would become Northern Europe. They were isolated from the rest of human kind by the vast European central plain and in their long clan memory, they had never encountered other people.
A warrior people from the south on a slaving expedition attacked them, many of the clans were killed. This attack was the start of many changes to the life of the clans and would eventually lead to a calendar, the beginning of counting, writing, and in the future, monuments of stone that still exist today. Another invention much in use in other parts of the world was the needle, this simple device would transform the life and health of the people.
Eventually, they will meet and join with the horse people of the eastern plain to the mutual benefit of all.
After adventures, they and the horse people will be aided by the Tufek, the forest people, and attack the slavers in a final battle.
The Clans
MOYAN, MOREE, BUREEN, RABEEL and MIZUKI.
The Moyan were the most northerly, about twelve miles to their south lived the Mizuki the most southerly of the five clans.
The population of the five clans was about three-hundred.
The people were peaceable and cooperated with each other in various enterprises usually involving hunting. Life was hard this far north, warfare was unknown. Sometimes around a fire, people speculated that there must be other clans far to the south, but in clan memory, they had always been alone. Their speculation on other clans was to prove correct.
The Vornay
A tribe of nomadic horse-men living in extended family groups loosely cooperating with each other, they were separated from the clans by a range of mountains cutting across the plain from north to south with the Vornay on the eastern side and the clans on the western side; neither people knew of each other’s existence.
The Adnin
A people living on the great plain several hundred miles south of the five clans and the Vornay, they were slavers raiding the tribes to their south and east, more advanced than both the clans and the Vornay; they used pottery, metal, agriculture and lived in a town built from wood and stone.
They had found religion and made human sacrifices, and were ruled by a priest king.
The Tufek
A forest-living people west of the Adnin, and because of the difficult forest terrain and the Tufek’s use of blow pipes and poison darts originally used to bring animals down out of the trees, they remained unconquered by Adnin.
Characters
The original names of these people have been lost in the mist of time.
Moyan
Fred Used counting to find Midsummer Day.
June Fred’s wife.
Junior Fred’s Son.
Mike Leader of the Moyan.
Ruby Mike’s wife.
Jake A leader of the hunters.
Willy Fred’s best friend and a future hunter leader. Marries Alice of the Vornay
Ava Daughter of Willy and Alice.
Rab A hunter, the tallest and the keenest.
Jock The youngest of the hunters. Leader of the expedition south… fair hair, fresh-faced.
Jim Junior’s best friend and on his expedition to the sea.
George The flint knapper.
Sasha Junior is keen on her.
Ella Sasha’s mother.
Luke Fred’s apprentice.
Ben Fred’s apprentice.
Alan One of Junior’s friends and on his expedition to the sea
Isla would become Jock’s wife.
Wally One of Junior’s friends and on his expedition to the sea.
Moree
Nearest clan to the Moyan.
Ash Clan leader. Kick-starts the clans’ ‘enlightenment’.
Jean Ash’s wife. Discovers natural needles.
Barny Junior’s friend. On Jock’s expedition south.
Duke Junior’s friend.
Nat Junior’s friend.
Benny Junior’s friend.
Tam The flint knapper.
Bureen
The next nearest clan.
Murf Leader.
Emily His wife.
Brian Friend of Junior.
Adam Friend of Junior.
Terry A hunter and in the expedition south.
Rabeel
The second furthest away.
Star The leader.
Rab A hunter.
Beks In expedition south.
Karl Friend of Junior.
Isla Marries Jock.
Robin A hunter.
Mizuki
The furthest away.
Ben The leader.
Barry Boy… orphaned.
Sam Boy… orphaned.
Merz The flint knapper.
Vornay
The horse people.
Buster Leader of first expedition to the western plain.
Lilly His wife.
Jude His son, and on Jock’s expedition south.
Alice Buster’s daughter. Marries Willy.
Blake Buster’s brother.
Poppy Blake’s wife.
Darren A child.
Kai Leader of advance party to the Vornay families.
John Head of the senior Vornay families.
Adnin
Rufus Priest king. Ruler of the town of Geyin.
Valious Prime priest and second in command.
Oliver Soldier.
Jacob Soldier.
Harry Soldier.
Charlie Slave.
Noah Slave.
Joe Captured priest.
Jenny Slave
Forest People.
The Tufek
Max A village headman.
Davy Escaped slave.
John A village headman
Hugh Most senior headman.
Prologue
Nine-thousand years ago in Northern Europe, on a tree-covered escarpment, overlooking the Great European Plain, lived the five clans. Their home caves stretched out in a line along the escarpment. At the southern end, the escarpment gradually fell away until it reached an arm of the great sea.
Life for the people was hard and very short. In other climes, man was starting agriculture living in villages and towns making pottery, weaving, working with metal. But not here at this time and in this place, the humans for the most part lived in caves, their short lives had not changed much in generations, they communicated verbally and in sign language, a vestige left over from their ancestors.
Today, mankind (unfortunately) dominates all aspects of Mother Nature and planet Earth, his heavy hand has been felt everywhere.
Nine-thousand years ago, it was a different story, early man’s imprint on the planet was negligible, as a result, plant and animal life blossomed, everywhere, the great herbivores of the plains lived in their tens of millions, the animals that preyed on them barely made a dent. Life in the seas and rivers was equally bountiful, the birds of the air flocked in unimaginable numbers.
In Northern Europe, man living in this seemingly bountiful planet, however, didn’t find life easy, it was one long battle to find enough to eat and to store food for the winter, there were many losers.
Part One
Chapter One

Spring Hunt
It was early spring and for the first time in weeks, the day was frost-free. Fred, this isn’t his real name that has been lost in the sands of time, he was a hunter for the Moyan clan. He was typical of men of his time, just over five-feet tall, stoically built, different from his peers by a shock of red hair and a thin, barely visible red beard.
Fred and the other hunters, seven in all, came down the escarpment towards the great plain, their descent angled south in the hope of meeting the first of the great herds of plains’ animals as they migrate north for the summer. As they descended towards the edge of the tree line, the only sound was the wind in the branches of the huge pine trees causing the upper bra