All Chapters of Till Worlds Do Us Part: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Uma stopped playing his flute and came to sit next to me at the entrance of the cave and we watched the birds fly in circles together.  "Did you like the song?" I nodded. "You play really well." "My father taught me to play. And in turn I taught Yoké." "How did you two become such good friends anyway?" He smiled, as if he could see the whole memory playing out before him. "We first met at the farm. I was with my father and he was with his. And our parents were assigned to work on the corn together. And they began to speak.  As a result, Yoké and myself spent a lot of time together that day as well. And you know kids, it didn't take us long to start talking like we

I could see their big white jet. I could see them drinking and laughing in their jet. I looked at Yoké. "You sure about this?" He asked me. I took a deep breath and nodded. He lead the way and I walked behind him. We got to the jet and it took the men a while to notice us standing there. They all looked shocked as they stepped out of the jet one after another. "Genesis?" One of them asked, he was the tallest and had brown hair. They were dressed so funny.  Their skin were as light as mine. Their hair were different colors. One's hair was brown, the other blonde and the other black. "Hi..." I said.  "You are aliv

Next morning we were woken up by someone calling Yoké's name. I jerked awake, which in turn woke Yoké up. Standing before us was a little child, a girl. She was topless and wearing a little skirt. "Yoké are you sleeping?" she asked him. Her voice was soft and pure. I looked around, it was broad daylight there was no one else around besides this child. I got out of Yoké's arms quickly. "It's morning Yoké." "I hope no one saw us here." Yoké said. "Beki where is your mother?" "She's coming." The child responded. "Let's go Genesis." He took my hand and we went the other way quickly.*** Yoké took me back to the cave and we stood against its walls and waited for Gamu. "When will you go see your father again?" "Maybe tomorrow morning." "I want to come with you." "Uma told you about their princess. I don't wan

I woke up before the cock crowed. I went outside to Gamu's chamber and started tapping Gamu so she could wake up. "Rena, what is it now?" Gamu moaned in her sleep. "Wake up, Gamu." "What for?" She said rubbing her eyes.  "We need to go to the river and the well." "The cock hasn't even crowed yet. Leave me alone." "We can't wait for the cock today." Gamu was now fully awake. She was frowning and shaking her head. "Rena what is wrong with you?" "Today I need to see Yoké early," I whispered." He is going somewhere later, if we wait for the cock by the time we finish everything he will be gone already."

When we got to the great bamboo wall that separates our village from theirs, Yoké moved a few loose bamboos to one side and told me to crawl under to the other side. When I was through I held them to the side for him too. When I looked around, I noticed the forest continued from our village into theirs, it was just separated by a line of green bamboo sticks. And there was no difference between their forestry and ours. “Now we are in Kuja village.”  “So what’s so different between the Kuja villagers and the Toko people?” “Just the believes. They allowed foreigners into their land to lead them astray from the Gods.”  “Which foreigners?” I asked him.  “By the way, the people here also speak Loke and Kwali like us and a b

The next day, after the river I refused to go with Gamu to the well, I went straight to the hut. I didn't tell her about the Princess nor her servant or else she would have known that Yoké went to the next village. When she came back from the well that day she waited until we were alone and then started to complain about her back pain because of having to carry the buckets all alone. I didn't respond to anything she said. I just sat on the stool with my back against the wall and played with the carved hyena in my hand. "Rena are you listening to me?" She asked me. "I am." "What did I say?" "That you have a pain in your lower back." She looked at me in disbelieve and then shook her head.

We sat around the wooden table and ate. Gamu cooked green beans today. I was now used to her food and enjoyed every one of the different food she cooked.  “Tomorrow morning there’s a ceremony.” The chief told Furah and I. He avoided my eyes as usual. “Before the sun rises. Furah tell your servant to get Rena ready in time. We can’t be late.” “Who is it?” Furah asked the chief. “Someone we wouldn’t have believed could do anything like that.”  I did not understand what they were talking about. I looked towards Gamu. She shook her head slowly and I understood her. This ceremony tomorrow was not something we would be happy about. There was trouble. 

Gamu sat with her knees bent, head in her hands and her elbows resting on her knees. We were before the river.  “Rena, why?” She asked me regretfully. I was sitting with my arms wrapped around my knees. I was still crying and shivering, I couldn’t get Sona out of my head: just when we had turned to leave I had heard the chief’s command loud and clear. And I heard the sickening slicing sound. And then I heard the villagers gasp in horror. “Rena you don’t know how much trouble you got yourself into with the chief and Furah.” “Gamu, forget about me.” I told her. “Didn’t you see what they did to Sona? Didn’t you see how h

When we got to the hut he went to the side and put me down on the bench and then stood before me with his hands on his waist. I looked up at him with a scowl. “I don’t even know where to start.” He said biting his bottom lip like he always did.  I didn’t say anything. “Okay, first of all why did you just leave Kuja without me? I thought you were supposed to wait for me.” I didn’t say anything.  “Did you remember your way back?”  “No I didn’t, I’m still lost there.” I said sarcastically.  He smiled shortly. “Anyway, about the Princess, you spoke to her. I was so scared when you made a scene in front of her but I should have trusted you. Because of everything you told her she said that she would ask her father to free my father and let hi

"What are we going to do?" I asked him, the blood in my body still running a marathon.  He looked back at me with so much concern. “It’s okay…” Yoké told me. “It’s just Uma.”  How did he know?  “Uma I’m this side.” Yoké called out.  Uma appeared with a bucket in his hand.  “You know this was the last thing I imagined seeing this morning after the beheading ceremony just took place.”  “Rena was there.” Yoké told him.  “Why did she even go?” Uma