KEI'S BACKSTORY

-Kei was kidnapped by the Ko tribe during their raid on the Ku'Ono village when she was a young adult. She and Mahi had been friends for a while, which makes their reunion all the more momentous.

The Ko, who had an iron grip on most of the island back then, would often take young women as "offerings" from the other tribes on Moa and give them to royal members of the Ko hierarchy as brides. Kei was chosen because she was the only young woman of the Ku'Ono,...