Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:03:31 +0000 From: tpickles Subject: Thai Pan - Chapter 11 THAI PAN : A JUNGLE TALE My latest story for Nifty takes a quite different approach to my previous stories (for a list of which, please see the end of this chapter). This is a more timeless tale. You could regard it as more of a sexual fable or myth -- with its roots deep in our collective history, culture and traditions as gay men and male tribes. The tale involves teenage boys and their discoveries with each other, and with a few men as mentors or guides. It is set deep in a jungle forest amidst myths, rituals, rites, taboos, initiation and elderhood. ....................... The ending of Chapter 10 ...................... "That was incredible to watch," said Win, the first to speak, giving me a hug. The other boys pulled me up off the platform. Despite the fact that I was covered in cum, they all pressed in close, hugging, touching, reassuring. Most of the boys seemed to be naked too - in so far as I could tell from the press of flesh, the poke of some hard cocks, and the rubbing of softer ones (- the ones I assumed had already cum). We shuffled across towards the fire. I looked around the group. All were smiling back at me. I could see drying cum glistening on at least two bodies. It felt incredibly fraternal and bonding. "We really admire you," offered Chet, "Watching those guys standing over you and wanking was so hot I had to cum myself, but really - the way you simply enabled them to have their pleasure shows what a great leader you are." "You certainly have my respect," chimed in Nong, "I'm not sure I could have done that in your place." "I certainly couldn't!" said Deep. I looked across the circle to him, acknowledging his comment, and noticing that on this occasion his reticence about exposing his body seemed to have lifted: his long gra-juu was pointing straight out ahead of him, almost touching the next boy; he looked like he could probably cum again. "Enough!" I replied. "I think I should really go and get showered. You're welcome to come and join me too if you wish!" CHAPTER 11 During the next day I spoke with Nong and Kong in private. I wanted to ask them if they would be prepared to strip off sometimes around the village and be seen naked by the other boys. I mentioned my earlier conversation with Deep, and how he had been bullied and jeered by others back home about the size of his gra-juu. He had become very sensitive about this and felt that somehow he was 'not normal'. As a result, he had started to hide his body from view. I was encouraging him to reveal himself and lose his sense of shame around the village. My request to Nong and Kong was to demonstrate that nudity and different body appearances were completely acceptable. Both boys agreed. Kong went as far as to say "As you've probably noticed, we don't have any difficulty in revealing our bodies! We love playing and enjoying ourselves naked. Sure, we can strip off sometimes if this will help Deep. Actually, I think he has a really beautiful body for a young teenager. I'd love to see a whole lot more of his naked butt." Later that day, the tactic seemed to be working. Nong and Kong were going off to work in the vegetable fields. They announced this after lunch, and because it was quite sticky and warm, they told everyone that they proposed to go naked, wearing just a hat to keep the sun off their heads. "If we go naked, you'll also be able to tell us apart," added Kong mischievously. When they did set off some time later, they called out to Deep to ask if he wanted to join them. He readily agreed; his eyes were clearly glued to the sight of the two naked older boys. Although he wore his gra-juu cloth when he left the village with them, he was naked on their return. All three boys' cocks were swinging free between their legs as they walked. There was a voyeuristic part of me that tried to assess whether their cocks were swollen in any way - and whether they'd been sharing in any more physical fun during their time together in the fields. Deep told me later that it had been really easy to spend the afternoon with these two boys. They had not suggested that he copy them, but working together in the fields had made it easy for him to undress completely. When they'd finished their work, all three had found a water pool used for storing irrigation water at the edge of the field, and they'd gone in to cool down. As they were drying off in the sun afterwards, Kong had complimented Deep on his gra-juu, telling him that he was envious of something so long. This had made Deep start to grow erect, and he'd noticed a similar reaction from Kong's body. He never did reveal to me whether anything further had happened between them! The example set by Nong and Kong, and taken up by Deep, prompted a wider change in attitude amongst the boys living in the village. I noticed an increasing level of nudity - not just in and around the river, but as boys went about their daily routines in the village and the surrounding fields. Sometimes it wasn't practical to be naked - as when working with the animals, or gathering timber from the forest - but at other times, with lighter work or socialising, it seemed to become more and more common. Boys would go take a shower and then emerge naked to dry in the sun or talk with their friends. Of course, people took a keen interest in each other's bodies, but with time, the novelty of this began to wear off. The boys just enjoyed being naked in each other's company. This also led to more overt sexual play. Sometimes a boy would swap huts for a night, in order to share the bed of a different boy. Boys taking a shower together, or relaxing by the river, would often sport an erection - and this quite frequently led to hands touching and mutual wanking. Sometimes a pair of boys would wander into the trees for some more privacy, though quite often they were happy for their sexual play to be witnessed by anyone else who happened to be around. A couple of times when I was working out in the fields myself, I noticed a couple moving beneath a field shelter for some shade and then fucking each other in various positions. Deep seemed to have taken a liking for me after our conversation together and as his confidence amongst the other boys grew. One evening, as some of us were preparing to retire to our huts, he came up to me and asked if he could spend the night in my hut. I asked him if anything was wrong. "No, nothing's wrong. It's just that I'd like to sleep close to you tonight - if that's ok with you." I didn't know whether he just wanted some different company, or whether he had something else on his mind. Anyway, I agreed, and alerted Win to the fact that Deep might be joining us in the bedroom. His response was "Oh, I wondered how long that would take. He's been looking at you for several days now!" I was the first to arrive in the bedroom and went for a shower. As I was showering, I heard Win and Deep climb the steps and enter the hut. A couple of minutes later, Deep appeared in the bathroom. I'd stepped out of the shower and was drying myself off. He came up to me and hugged me: "Thank you," he said. I gave him a light kiss and retired to bed as Deep and then Win took their turns to shower. Deep climbed onto the bed naked, his long cock hanging down between his thighs. "Is it all right if I sleep between you and Win on the bed?" he asked. I replied that it was fine. I still wasn't sure quite what he wanted but I knew that if I didn't push it, I would find out before too long. When Win got into bed on the other side, the three of us enjoyed a huddle together with Deep as the filling in the sandwich. As I turned onto my back to prepare for sleep, Deep spoke quietly: "Pan - you know when you helped me out by the gate - when I got excited and you touched me and told me just to be myself?" I nodded in the dark. "Well, I'd really like to repay you and show you how much I appreciate what you're doing for me." I told him there was no need for that, that it was part of my role as the leader to help all boys, but he insisted. "No, I really want to give you something back - something I can do for you - something that I hope you will enjoy." As he spoke, his hand moved across onto my belly. "Please - will you let me repay you in the same way as you helped me?" he pleaded. "Are you sure?" I asked, "You don't have to at all." "But I want to. Each time I see you, I want to." By now, his hand had travelled downwards until he was touching my gra-juu. "I keep thinking about this and I just want to do the same to you." I relented - by now I understood that he wanted to have some play with me, and the way my cock was already responding indicated to him that I was certainly up for it. He took hold of my thickening member, and started to bring me to full hardness. I looked across the bed to Win to check his reaction; he grinned broadly, as if he had every intention of being about to enjoy the show. By now, Deep was sitting up in the bed beside me. He shifted his position until he was kneeling. He pushed the bedding back to expose me fully. His hand continued to jerk me. Then he lowered his head forward until he could take me into his mouth. I let out a loud groan. The sensations of his warm, soft mouth, his moist lips, and his wet tongue playing across my engorged cock were amazing. It certainly seemed as though he knew what he was doing. If he was going to treat me, then I was determined to enjoy it. This slim, smooth, brown boy must be two or three years younger than me, but he was really waking up my body and making me incredibly horny. His mouth started working up and down on my cock. He must be able to open his throat, because virtually the whole of my length was disappearing into his mouth. He lifted his face up to remove a loose pubic hair from his lips and looked at me, grinning. "Maybe I'm enjoying this just as much as you!" When his head went back down, it was to work on my balls. One of his hands worked to push my legs further apart and then he buried his face deep into my root, licking and sucking all the time. I groaned loudly again with the pleasure of it. As he leant down, his slender boy ass had come more into view. I instinctively put my hand out to caress his cheeks. He responded by wriggling his bum. As his face worked across my inner thighs, perineum, balls and cock, my hand started to knead and squeeze the flesh of his buttocks, and my fingers ran into his crack, repeatedly passing over his butt-hole. I wondered if he'd ever been fucked - and quite who amongst all the village boys might be given the privelege. For several minutes we both worked on each other. My hand passed through between his thighs and found the base of his cock. The other end of his long gra-juu was poking into my hips. My hand felt along as much of his length as I could reach. He moved one leg to straddle across my chest, still facing down my body, and I now had full access to his boyish bum and the long ruler poking out on the other side. Meanwhile, he was maintaining a fast pace on my cock. As his mouth closed around me again, I closed my eyes and imagined what it might be like to be poking into his ass. My hands held his hips above me as I felt my own seed rising. I called out a warning to him that I was about to cum, but he continued without let-up. My first blast of spunk must have filled most of his mouth. I could feel some of it leak from his mouth and start to run down the length of my cock as I fired a second load. He pulled off me to watch the third and fourth globs pulse out of my cockhead and pool on my belly. He slowly straightened up and resumed his kneeling position beside me. He looked at me with a wide grin across his face. "I've been wanting to do that for days!" he said, "I hope you enjoyed it too." I nodded and smiled back at him. As my cock rested across my belly, his full length was pointing directly out across me. His hand reached down to scoop up my seed which he proceeded to smear along his gra-juu. "I need some lubrication," he explained, "For my nightly wank." And he used his hand to wipe and smear another load. "That was really hot to watch," whispered Win from across the bed, where he'd been lying on his side and watching us both. I could see that he was quietly stroking himself too. He turned to look up at Deep. "I don't know what you like doing, Deep. It would be great to see you wank yourself and cum all over Pan. I've done that myself before now because he has such a great body. But if you want to cum inside someone, I would love to try and take your cock. I can't take all of it, but I'd love to see how much I can manage. I can try and suck you off, or if you want to, you can try fucking me. Pan knows that I love getting fucked." As Win was speaking, Deep turned to listen and look at his body. His hand reached out to grab his cock. "Yes, sure, that would be great. I've fucked once or twice before so I think I know what I'm doing. Maybe you can teach me some more. If I try to fuck you, how would you like me to do it?" "I think you need to lie down on your back, then I can sit on your cock. I don't think I can take all of you, but that way I can stop when it's too much." Deep quickly scooted around to lie on the bed next to me. His hand was still smearing my juices along his whole length. Win reached down to the floor and picked up the discarded bottle of oil we'd used before; he poured some into his hand and then used his fingers to oil up his crack and ass. He knelt across Deep's hips to position himself. Deep was holding himself and I watched closely as he wiped his long cock along the length of Win's crack, across his ass-cheeks, and poked at his root. He didn't hurry. He clearly realised the importance of preparation! Meanwhile Win was holding his very hard cock in front of him, stroking himself and urging Deep on. "I'm ready, I'm ready. I want to feel you inside me." He knelt upwards and used his hands to pull apart his buttocks. I watched as Deep lined himself up at Win's exposed hole. He held himself still and in position, as Win very slowly let himself down onto the waiting column. "Aarghh," he cried as his sphincter muscles relaxed enough for Deep's cockhead to slip inside. Win waited, breathing deeply to relax and accommodate the intrusion. Then he slowly let his thighs subside as more of Deep's long cock was buried inside his body. I pushed myself up and crawled to the other end of the bed to see just how much Win was able to take. Around half of Deep's cock had disappeared. I let my fingers play on the length that was still exposed, seeking to increase the boy's pleasure even more. With my other hand, I played with Win's ass and crack, encouraging him to relax and accept even more. By now, Win had started to rise and fall on Deep, fucking himself on the boys long tool. I returned to the top of the bed and lay down again. I started to play with the boy's nipples, squeezing and pinching them; his gasps and noises encouraged me to play even more. I bent over his face and knelt forward to kiss him. As my lips touched his, his mouth opened wide and we were quickly tonguing each other. I could feel the bed moving up and down as Win fucked his ass on Deep's cock. I could see with one eye that Win was also stroking himself hard. Whatever the discomfort of taking such a long cock into his body, he'd certainly not lost his own erection. Deep's lithe body started to move on the bed. His head was twisting side-to-side as he strove to kiss more deeply into my mouth. My hand was pinching and twisting one nipple and then the other on his smooth chest. And his slender hips had started to buck upwards as he sought to become more active in the penetration of Win's ass above him. A deep noise started to rise from Deep's throat and I could sense his rising orgasm. He broke from my mouth and jerked his whole body upwards. Having seen him cum on at least two previous occasions, I could image the forceful jet that he was shooting deep inside Win. As before, it seemed to go on for quite some time! When at last his body subsided, Win urged him: "Don't pull out! I want to hold you there whilst I cum." We both turned to look at him. On his knees, straddling Deep, with Deep's long cock still shoved into his ass, Win was continuing to fuck himself whilst rapidly jerking his cock towards orgasm. With several gasps, he ejaculated four long strings of cum across Deep's prone body. The latter's instinct was again to scoop some up with his hand and bring it to his mouth. Win slowly relaxed and let Deep's cock slide out of his ass with an audible noise. He moved to lie on top of the younger boy, and I tried to hold them both in my arms. We murmured a few things to each other about the whole experience. It had clearly been stimulating, adventurous and very exciting for all of us. The shared shower that followed offered quite a contrast: sensual touches, gentle caresses, soft kisses, pleasurable body rubbing, and intimate fondling. Unsurprisingly, we all three slept deeply within minutes of getting back onto the bed. oOo A few days later my leadership skills were again called upon. Win had already warned me that there was increasing tension amongst some of the newer boys to arrive in the village. Now I was to hear about it first-hand. It was Billy who approached me first. He was very nervous and from the look on his face it would seem that he had been crying recently. I knew that he and Jaz had been sharing a bedroom with the slightly older boy Moon in the same hut as Chet, Ton and Deep. Deep had told me some stories about how these three boys from the same village didn't always seem to get on too well together. When I saw Billy's distress I decided to take him to one side. I asked Chet to come and join us, and together we found a quiet area just inside my own hut where we would not be overheard. "I can see you're upset, Billy," I began, "Do you want to tell me anything of what's been happening and why you feel like this?" "I just want to go home," he replied, "I can't stay here any longer. But I don't know how to get there anymore." Again, he looked very close to tears. "Something must be happening to make you feel like this," I continued. "I've seen you walking and working around the village -- mostly with Jaz and Moon. Have you fallen out with them? You can always move in with some other boys if you would prefer that," I offered. It took a lot of coaxing to persuade Billy to tell us more of what was going on. Chet was able to help by reporting on some of his experiences of sharing the same hut with these three boys; apparently he'd overheard them arguing and Moon being very aggressive or demanding of the other two younger boys. When I started to hear Moon's name being mentioned more and more, all my apprehension about this boy re-surfaced. I'd thought he was a little arrogant and self-centred when he first arrived ahead of his two friends. Now I was beginning to hear more about his behaviour and attitude. "Moon keeps telling us what we have to do," began Billy. "I want to stay friends with him but he's not always nice to me -- or to Jaz. Sometimes he's just lazy and gets us to do his share of the work. But he's older than us and we've always regarded him as the leader of our little group, so it's very difficult to argue with him. He likes to get his own way." Billy gave us several examples of Moon's behaviour which I don't think anyone else had witnessed outside their little group. It sounded like he could be quite a bully. Chet later told me that he sometimes adopted a similar attitude towards other younger boys, such as Ton and Deep. I reminded Billy of our group rules, and how maintaining respect for everyone else was really important. I asked him whether he thought Moon had been breaking these rules. "Well, most of the time he's OK -- but sometimes he just makes you do things. It's like he wants to take care of himself all the time, but doesn't always care about other people's feelings." I asked Billy to give me some examples. His head hung down and he didn't want to look at me. I sensed there was some shame or embarrassment about these stories. I waited patiently until he felt ready to say some more. After a couple of minutes, it was Chet who reminded Billy that there was no problem in being truthful -- that no matter what had happened we were happy to listen and try to help. Billy's head stayed down and his hands were fidgeting. I think he would have run out of the hut and pretend the conversation had never happened if he could. As it was, we remained sitting with him, encouraging him to tell us more of what had really been going on. Eventually, he began to mumble more of the story. "Well -- you know how some of the boys fool around with each other? They play with their gra-juu, and play with each other." Again, he paused, and we both nodded and affirmed that lots of the boys were playing around like that and that it was quite natural with so many teenage boys together. "Well -- Moon likes to do that too. It started about a year or two before we left the village. He's older than us and he was the one that showed us what we could do as we were growing up. At first, he was like an older brother to us. He showed us this stuff and it was -- you know -- fun and exciting. We all really liked it. We would go off into the jungle together and we would take off our shorts and play with ourselves. Moon was a lot bigger than us then and Jaz and I would watch him to see what he could do. It seemed like he was so experienced. Then he started asking us to do things with him. He wanted us to touch and hold his gra-juu. That was OK because we got to see what an older boy was like. But then he wanted us to put it in our mouths. His gra-juu head gets quite big when he's hard and it would fill my mouth. Sometimes he tasted fully -- like he wasn't always clean -- and that wasn't nice. He tried to hold my head and force his gra-juu in and out of my mouth until he shot his white stuff. Then one day he got hold of Jaz and pulled his shorts off him in the jungle. Moon is much stronger than us. It's hard to fight back against him. He pushed Jaz over a fallen tree and made him spread his legs wide apart. Then he took his hard gra-juu and pushed it into Jaz's bum. Jaz started to shout and scream, and Moon tried to stop him. Moon was very excited and fucking him quite hard. Afterwards Jaz was really hurting. That happened a few months ago. And since then, Moon has been wanting us to suck on him or let us be fucked by him most days. He really likes it here with the other lost boys. He watches them play together and have sex. Sometimes he goes off into the forest with one of the other boys and I know what they will be doing together. Then at night, back in our shared bedroom, he wants to do the same stuff with Jaz and me. To begin with it was fun, but now he doesn't seem to care about us -- he just wants to use us for his pleasure." Billy stopped his story and for the first time in several minutes, he looked up to check our reactions. "I can see that Moon has been taking advantage of you, Billy, and not treating you with respect. But I wonder what's happened in the last day or two that made you come and talk with me today?" Billy's head went down again as he struggled to find a response. "Um ... well ... it's like he just doesn't stop. It's no fun anymore." "Can you say what's changed?" "Err ... it's like he keeps finding different things that he wants us to try out with him. And some of them are not so nice. Recently we were working in the fields together and he wanted to take a piss. He told us to take our clothes off and lie down on the ground. Then he started to piss all over us. Now every time we have a shower, he wants to pee on us. Yesterday he told me to swallow his pee and he put it straight in my mouth. And ... And ... Now he's talking about shitting ... and what he would like to do with that. It's just too much. I don't want that. I don't want to feel like his slave any more. I want to be treated properly." After hearing Billy's complaints, I consulted with Chet. He said he had been worried about Moon for some time because he seemed to be quite selfish in his attitude around the village. He could be helpful when he wanted to be but usually this meant that he was also looking for some advantage for himself. He thought that Ton and Deep were also avoiding too much contact with Moon. I decided to call in Jaz, the third boy in this friendship group, and see what he had to say. Jaz was generally quieter and more reserved than Billy. It took some time to get him to talk openly, but eventually he confirmed a lot of what Billy had already told us. Jaz didn't want to say too much that he feared would get Moon into trouble; I took this to be another indication of the sort of hold that Moon was able to exercise over his two `friends'. When Jaz and Billy had both gone, I was left wondering quite what to do. Clearly the situation could not be left to continue: Billy had already indicated his desire to leave the village if he could. But it wasn't Billy that was causing the upsets -- it was Moon; and it was my responsibility to deal with the fundamental cause of the problem, which was Moon's attitude. I wondered quite what the right balance might be between confronting him, punishing him, and restraining him. I wondered what his likely reactions might be: whether he would seek retribution against Jaz and Billy; whether he would want to leave; or whether he would deny everything. At worse, he might even seek to challenge my `authority' as the leader of the lost boys. oOo It took me another day to work out how to respond. During this time I talked more with Chet and with Win. I consulted with the twins, Kong and Nong, who were always willing to offer a balanced view on the situation. Even Deep came up to me and talked about his concerns for the two boys seemingly under the influence of Moon. Eventually I asked Moon, Billy and Jaz to come and see me. I invited Chet to join us as someone who was familiar with the whole situation and who also shared the same hut in the village. I began by laying out some of the reports I'd heard, without naming who had spoken with me. I explained that if there was any truth in these stories, then I regarded them as an abuse of our village rules, because they demonstrated disrespect towards other boys. I asked Billy and Jaz to indicate whether these stories were broadly true; both boys nodded in agreement. Then I turned to Moon. He had been feigning disinterest in what I had to say up to that point. I thought he was probably going to deny everything. In the event, he said there `might be something' in the stories. He wouldn't look at me directly, but he said that lots of boys were fooling around with each other and having sex fun -- and he was no different. He enjoyed this kind of pleasure -- and he liked a lot of it `because that's the age I'm at'. He said he'd been friends with Jaz and Billy for a long time and they'd been doing this kind of stuff together for ages. At this point Billy interrupted him and said how Moon was now being more demanding and forcing them to do things they didn't really want to do. Moon tried to deny this, or claim that he didn't realise this, but in the end the clear contradiction from his two friends was overwhelming. Moon fell silent, staring at the floor. I wasn't sure whether he felt embarrassed by his own behaviour, or angry about being caught and confronted. "Do you like living here in the village, Moon?" I asked, "Do you want to continue living here?" He nodded. "Yes. I like it when there are other boys around." "And do you understand our village rules about respecting everyone else. That means you can't make them do things they don't want, just because you do." Again, he nodded. "And that what you have been doing has caused hurt and upset so some other boys?" "I didn't know." "No, maybe you didn't -- but you should have -- if you'd been paying attention to their feelings and not just your own." I paused for a moment before continuing with the action I wanted to take. "OK, Moon. First I think you should apologise to Billy, Jaz and anyone else you may have upset, and tell them that you won't behave like that with them again. Second, I want you to accept an experiment. This is not meant as a punishment, but as a way of you experiencing what it's like when you can't do everything you want -- and when you have to start being dependent on other people to help you. Do you think you can do these two things?" "What do I have to do?" He looked up at me, holding eye contact for the first time. "Like I said, I'm asking you to apologise to any of the other boys in the village that you might have upset. Then, for the experiment, I want you to agree to do something very simple. For three days, starting from now, I want you to agree to not use your hands at all." I could see that everyone in the room was looking at me quizzically. "Because we're all so used to using our hands all the time, I'm going to suggest that we loosely tie your hands behind your back. Not tightly -- it won't hurt -- but just so that you can't use your hands to do everyday things that we all take for granted. The main thing is, you won't be able to feed yourself or take a drink easily. You won't be able to wash yourself. You won't be able to wank yourself." I could see Moon looking at me open-mouthed at the suggestion. "But I need to eat." "Yes," I agreed, "You do need to eat, and drink, and wash ... and probably cum, but you won't be able to do any of this by yourself. You will need to depend on other boys helping you. And if you try to command or bully other boys to do what you want, they will almost certainly refuse. So you will need to ask them; they will be doing you a favour. And the choice will be theirs. That is showing them respect. What happens to you -- and how comfortable you life is -- over the next three days will depend on the willingness of other people to help you. This experiment is about helping you to realise that we all live together and need each other; that our lost boys village works when we collaborate and share, not when we demand and bully. If you want to continue living here with the other boys, these are the two things I'm asking you to agree to." Slowly comprehension seemed to dawn on Moon. He looked at me, then at his two younger friends. "I'm sorry if I've been unreasonable with you. I thought you wanted the same as me. But I suppose I should have checked with you first. I will try and behave better in future." He stopped and looked at me again. "Are you serious about fastening my hands?" I confirmed that I certainly was, and that the restriction would begin as soon as he was ready to start the three day period. He turned back to Billy and Jaz. "It looks like I will be needing your help. I'm sorry for hurting you. I hope you will be willing to help me sometimes." Before the boys left the hut, I asked Chet to fetch me some cloth which I cut into long strips. I asked Moon to stand with his back towards me, and to put his hands behind him. I wound the cloth around each wrist and then tied the two wrists. It wasn't tight: he could move both arms and there was considerable movement for each wrist and hand -- but he couldn't bring them to the front or use his hands. I was tempted to ask him whether he wanted to keep his gra-juu cloth on or off, as he would need help to remove it for peeing -- or anything else -- but I decided he could work this out for himself. Eventually, he left, accompanied by Billy and Jaz and returned to his own hut. "Well done," said Chet, "That was brilliant! You've created a really effective way of showing him that we all need to depend on each other. And Billy and Jaz and all the other boys can decide for themselves if they want to help him or not. This could make a real difference to that boy." oOo Over dinner that night I announced to everyone that Moon had broken our village rules and that some boys had been treated disrespectfully. I reminded everyone that we needed to work together to live in the village. I explained that Moon had agreed to my suggestion of not using his hands for three days and that was why they were bound behind him. I pointed out that this would mean Moon would need help from other boys to do even the simplest things. Each boy could offer to help. Moon could not make anyone help him. They were free to make their own choice. Through dinner, I noticed that Moon was sitting at a table some way off from the main group. There were just three of four boys around him. One boy spooned his dinner onto a plate and set it before him. For a moment, I thought that Moon was going to lean down and try to eat it from the plate with his mouth. But another boy leant across and started to feed him with a spoon. The message was getting through! Later that evening I heard a couple of boys asking Moon if he wanted a shower. They offered to take him to the big outdoor shower behind our hut and help him with his ablutions. Realising that this might be awkward or embarrassing for Moon, I decided to keep out of the way and let them work this out for themselves. As I went to bed that evening, I felt that another major test of my leadership and eldership in the village had been successfully negotiated. ....... to be continued soon in Chapter 12 of 'THAI PAN' .............. YOU MAY ENJOY MY OTHER WRITINGS 'BOY: The Mentoring of a Gay Teenager'http://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/boy-series/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0177EX1XY for the Kindle version Search your local Amazon / Kindle website by the title. TOBY: The Secret Journal of a Gay Teenhttp://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/toby/ THAI PAN: A Jungle Talehttp://www.nifty.org/nifty/gay/adult-youth/thai-pan/ And please generously support Nifty to keep publishing all these great stories!http://donate.nifty.org/. (c) Tom Pickles, 2016