0:00:06 > 0:00:12'Here they come! My two intrepid explorers - Charlotte and Lokesh.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15'I'm their Great Aunt Lizzie, you see,
0:00:15 > 0:00:18'and I wonder which one is coming to see me today...
0:00:19 > 0:00:21'Ah! So it's Charlotte.'
0:00:21 > 0:00:24- Hello, Charlotte. - Hello, Great Aunt Lizzie.
0:00:32 > 0:00:37'Once upon a time, I travelled the world, discovering treasures
0:00:37 > 0:00:42'from long ago and far away, and no end of stories to remind me.
0:00:44 > 0:00:49'But my most precious possession of all is my extraordinary
0:00:49 > 0:00:51'collection of teacups.'
0:01:04 > 0:01:05Here we are!
0:01:07 > 0:01:12No time to count the clouds. Let's have a nice cup of tea and a story.
0:01:12 > 0:01:17- But first, we need the teacup. - But which one?
0:01:31 > 0:01:38- That one!- Ah! The Mayan hunter's arrowhead. Are you sure?
0:01:38 > 0:01:42Yeah. Thought it looked like an arrowhead.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Well, people have hunted with bows and arrows since... Well, forever.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50Let's see what adventure this particular arrow is pointing
0:01:50 > 0:01:55- towards. Are you ready?- Ready.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Then, let me tell you the story of Charlotte And The Adventure
0:02:01 > 0:02:05Of The Mayan Hunter's Arrowhead.
0:02:05 > 0:02:09It all began over 1,000 years ago, before anybody here had ever
0:02:09 > 0:02:12heard of the place we now call Central America,
0:02:12 > 0:02:16deep in the forests and cities of old Yucatan.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41It was in the misty jungle where the ancient city of Mirador rose
0:02:41 > 0:02:45from the plains, taller even than the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Get your black beans and masa cake!
0:02:47 > 0:02:52The city was already 1,000 years old on the day Charlotte arrived,
0:02:52 > 0:02:57- to see a man trading fresh food with a young farmer.- Yes, Miss!
0:02:57 > 0:03:01You, young lady! Black beans and masa cake? Oh, come on!
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- I have a very special ingredient! - What special ingredient?
0:03:05 > 0:03:08They were made by me - the one and only Waoom,
0:03:08 > 0:03:13the most prodigious hunter in all of old Mirador. At your service, Ma'am.
0:03:13 > 0:03:20- Waoom? The hunter? You?- Yes, the best of the best, once upon a time.
0:03:20 > 0:03:26But not any more, as is well known. I'll tell you what, Miss.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29I'll trade you two masa cakes for two scoops of your flour.
0:03:29 > 0:03:34And I'll tell you about the time I escaped the coils of a pit viper.
0:03:34 > 0:03:39- That old snake had a yawn so wide he could swallow a house!- House?
0:03:39 > 0:03:44A mouth as wide as a house? Ha! You townfolk! Ha-ha!
0:03:44 > 0:03:48- Well, if that's how you're going to be...- Oh, come on, Miss!
0:03:48 > 0:03:53- Miss, have a bite to eat.- You want to trade, Mr Waoom, the hunter?
0:03:55 > 0:03:56Never mind a few scoops.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03I'll trade you my whole bag of flour if you can teach me how to hunt.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07You don't want to believe the tales of an old hunter now, do you, Miss?
0:04:07 > 0:04:10Sochil. I always wanted to be a hunter.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Do you know how I got so old, Sochil?
0:04:13 > 0:04:18Because I can walk through the forest without breaking a twig.
0:04:18 > 0:04:23I can hear a white wolf breathe a mile away.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28And because, Sochil, I'm willing to walk away from a hunt,
0:04:28 > 0:04:30hungry and empty-handed.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Are you?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39So, let's play Stealing The Jaguar's Meat.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41The trouble is, it's a game for three.
0:04:42 > 0:04:45Hello, I'm Charlotte.
0:04:45 > 0:04:46I'll play.
0:04:46 > 0:04:51Charlotte had volunteered, without even waiting to find out the rules.
0:04:51 > 0:04:58Now, I'm the jaguar. This is my meat. So is that, my friend.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01- Oh, no, you don't! - I play by the laws of the jungle.
0:05:01 > 0:05:06Charlotte pressed on, but perhaps she should have been more cautious.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10Now, all you have to do is steal the meat from the old,
0:05:10 > 0:05:13blind jaguar and he'll teach you how to hunt.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20Fail and the cat keeps the meat.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Without a flask to quench her thirst,
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Charlotte's adventures would be over.
0:05:32 > 0:05:36If she could just hold her breath, creep quietly in and...
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You need more practise, Miss.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42But your friend, she is good.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53Thank you. I was worried there. Sorry I didn't get your flour.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57That's OK. I won and you kept your water. Pretty good, really.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01So, we've got a deal? I got the jaguar's meat and you promised.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03But it wasn't so simple as that.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07The Woman of the Sea, Eskeknah, sits high on the cliff,
0:06:07 > 0:06:08guarding the eastern ocean.
0:06:08 > 0:06:12When she gives you your arrowhead for your first arrow,
0:06:12 > 0:06:14then I'll teach you how to hunt.
0:06:18 > 0:06:22I should probably go and explain it all to my brother, Tazeikin.
0:06:22 > 0:06:23Would you like to meet him?
0:06:23 > 0:06:27Charlotte felt honoured to be invited back to meet Sochil's
0:06:27 > 0:06:31brother, but did wonder whether he'd be as pleased with
0:06:31 > 0:06:37- the news as his sister was. - No, no, no, no, no! No!
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- But he's going to teach me how to hunt.- No!
0:06:40 > 0:06:44But, once I'm a hunter, we'll be able to eat as much meat as we want.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47I just need to go get the arrowhead from the Woman of the Sea
0:06:47 > 0:06:49and he'll teach me everything.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- He was the greatest hunter in all of Yucatan.- Oh, OK, then.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56That's fine. So what if there's a new crop to harvest?
0:06:56 > 0:07:00So what if the maize we've been growing for months is going
0:07:00 > 0:07:01to spoil in the field?
0:07:01 > 0:07:06So what if you've just traded our last bag of flour for a promise?
0:07:06 > 0:07:09You just go off on your wild adventure, Sochil the Great(!)
0:07:09 > 0:07:12By the time we've finished harvest,
0:07:12 > 0:07:14Waoom will have gone back to the capital.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18And in the meantime, we can't even give your guest anything for
0:07:18 > 0:07:21lunch except a half-eaten masa cake.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- You've got some apologising to do!- I'm sorry.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27I should never have brought you back with nothing for lunch.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- I just got carried away with the excitement.- It's OK.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- We can share this. - Tazeikin is right.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37I can't leave while the crops are ready for harvest.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41- The Woman of the Sea will have to wait.- What should Charlotte do?
0:07:41 > 0:07:45Should she rush off to find the mysterious Woman of the Sea?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Or should she think twice before leaping into action?
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Charlotte was in a quandary.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59- Can you see your face in it? - Yes, but it doesn't look like me!
0:08:01 > 0:08:05Great Aunt Lizzie, it all went wrong because Waoom took away the flour.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I don't think that was right.
0:08:07 > 0:08:11I suppose he wanted to be sure Sochil was serious about learning.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14He would have taken Charlotte's flask, too.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17Not everything on an adventure works out.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Sometimes, you're in the thick of it before you realise you've
0:08:20 > 0:08:22made a mistake.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25The thing to do is to learn and to remember to think twice.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28I'm so glad Sochil saved the flask.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31She knew it was only right after being helped by a stranger.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35What about the arrowhead? Charlotte has to go and get it.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37I think you're right. Knowing Charlotte,
0:08:37 > 0:08:42she was never going to leave without returning a good deed, now, was she?
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Off went Charlotte in her hat, bag and boots.
0:09:12 > 0:09:17When she was almost out of breath, the path ran out!
0:09:20 > 0:09:23Charlotte took a deep breath.
0:09:46 > 0:09:48WINGS FLAP
0:10:03 > 0:10:08At last, she could see a tiny house, with smoke rising from
0:10:08 > 0:10:09a hole in the roof.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15But there was no time to admire the view.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18Charlotte had to get that arrowhead!
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Eskeknah was sitting on a small rock,
0:10:22 > 0:10:27- staring out into the empty eastern horizon.- Excuse me!
0:10:27 > 0:10:31Waoom, the hunter, said you might have an arrowhead for my friend,
0:10:31 > 0:10:33- Sochil.- And where is Sochil?
0:10:33 > 0:10:36She can't come. She has to help her brother with the
0:10:36 > 0:10:40maize harvest. She did me a good turn, so I'm doing her one.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42May I have an arrowhead, please?
0:10:44 > 0:10:49Did you ever hear of the game called Stealing The Jaguar's Meat?
0:10:49 > 0:10:54- Yeah, but it's a game for three. - Waoom tell you that, did he?
0:10:54 > 0:10:58Always makes up the rules, that man.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01This time, it wasn't her flask she had to play for,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03but a hunter's arrowhead.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Don't you need a blindfold? - Don't you trust me?
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Charlotte had never won this game, but she had an idea.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20If it was an arm she'd grabbed, it was awfully bony!
0:11:23 > 0:11:25SHE CHUCKLES
0:11:25 > 0:11:30- You won.- Charlotte turned the little stone arrowhead over in her hand.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33It was shaped like a leaf, with a sharp, jagged edge.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Perhaps you're the one who should become the hunter.
0:11:36 > 0:11:41- I prefer being an explorer.- Then go and explore, Charlotte.- Thank you.
0:11:41 > 0:11:42Bye!
0:11:44 > 0:11:49Back came Charlotte in her hat, bag and boots.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07As she approached the farm, she saw Sochil cooking a pot of soup.
0:12:07 > 0:12:13- I got it!- I don't believe it! I was getting ready to go myself but...
0:12:13 > 0:12:16You saved my flask for me. I just wanted to help out in return.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20- Please join us for lunch, Charlotte. - It's OK, we talked about it.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24With the harvest in, I can find someone else to help on the farm.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27I was a little bit jealous, to be honest.
0:12:27 > 0:12:31I'll think about that when I'm in the jungle with all
0:12:31 > 0:12:32the snakes and spiders!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35May I?
0:12:37 > 0:12:40And that was that - the whole box of tricks.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Charlotte And The Mayan Hunter's Arrowhead.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47I didn't understand at first why Tazeikin made his sister feel bad
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- when her dreams were about to come true.- But you do now?
0:12:50 > 0:12:54- He was worried and he needed her.- Yes, he did.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57What's more important - following your dreams or staying
0:12:57 > 0:13:01- to help your family? - What do you think, Charlotte?
0:13:01 > 0:13:03I think they're both important.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06And I think you're wise beyond your years.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09You must reach for the moon and follow your heart and,
0:13:09 > 0:13:11if it feels right, charge on!
0:13:11 > 0:13:16If it feels wrong, stop, go back and do the right thing. Oh, my!
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Well, doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Time to go.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31Now, how did that get there? Home time, Charlotte.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42- Thanks, Great Aunt Lizzie! - Cheery-bye, Charlotte!- Bye!