Unuu

Tue, a rambunctious five-year-old marble ace, lives with his family in a small Numi (people) village at the edge of a mountain range on a distant planet, EkaSokobi (red earth). One night he is visited by Nunupi (little people) who enlist his aid in finding the Unuu (creature) spiders. The Unuus' silk is needed to bind Nunupi arrowheads to shafts, but their silk supply is running low due to the destruction of Unuu habitat on Earth. While everyone else is sleeping, Tue has an adventure flying with the Nunupi to a distant mountain, locating the spiders and playing marbles with the extra-terrestrials. Are the Unuu real? Are the Nunupi real? Or was it all a dream? This fantasy story introduces Comanche words and legends in combination with science fiction to provide a glimpse into another culture and time.