This memory is from when Montage is an early teen. Today, you are playing a game of Ollama! It's basically the Mesoamerican ballgame. You had decided to try out for the school's Ollama society earlier that year, and you managed to get in. (You quit by the end of the year, but you don't know that yet.) The school doesn't really have teams, it rather has a society that forms into smaller teams for games. In practice though, there are cliques that tend to form the same teams. Your cousin Ch'okole is on your team this team. Gods how you hate that girl. In fact there's another member of your family on this team, but you don't know him quite as well. From a further off branch, you believe, nephew to a provincial governor. At any rate, they insist family has to be on the same team.
The sun shines bright on the ballcourt, a lovely stone arena with seats to both sides of the playing area. The walls have vivid murals depicting the game, as well as jaguars and wolves eating people's hearts, and people getting beheaded. Lovely stuff. Your friends are cheering you on from the stands, Ayakiri, Munyal, and Ohtli.
You lose though. You and your cousin just can't follow the same plan. She blames you, and maybe it is your fault. But also she's just a shitty person who sucks.
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This memory is from when Montage is an early teen. Today, you are playing a game of Ollama! It's basically the Mesoamerican ballgame. You had decided to try out for the school's Ollama society earlier that year, and you managed to get in. (You quit by the end of the year, but you don't know that yet.) The school doesn't really have teams, it rather has a society that forms into smaller teams for games. In practice though, there are cliques that tend to form the same teams. Your cousin Ch'okole is on your team this team. Gods how you hate that girl. In fact there's another member of your family on this team, but you don't know him quite as well. From a further off branch, you believe, nephew to a provincial governor. At any rate, they insist family has to be on the same team.
The sun shines bright on the ballcourt, a lovely stone arena with seats to both sides of the playing area. The walls have vivid murals depicting the game, as well as jaguars and wolves eating people's hearts, and people getting beheaded. Lovely stuff. Your friends are cheering you on from the stands, Ayakiri, Munyal, and Ohtli.
You lose though. You and your cousin just can't follow the same plan. She blames you, and maybe it is your fault. But also she's just a shitty person who sucks.