Chapter Six

The lives of Taiwo and Keyinde omo Olufunke became nothing to write home about after the demise of their mother. They wandered deeper into the woods like a lost hunter. They walked for many days with little or no food and water to satiate their thirst and hunger.

Keyinde: Taiwo please let's have a rest here. We've been walking all day with no food and water and no animal came our way because we're already lost in this part of the forest and no animal can come here except for the big snakes. Please let's take a rest before we fall out of weakness and hit our heads on hard rocks.

He sighed as he heeded his sister's advice.

Taiwo: Let's rest on that tree trunk and maybe sleep there for the night.

Keyinde: Okay....... what are we going to eat? We've not eaten anything for days now.

Taiwo: Wait here let me go find some fruits for us.

Keyinde: Okay!! Please be quick oooo I can't bear to loose you too

He kissed her on her forehead.

Taiwo: I'm going to come back soon to get that back, okay?

Keyinde: Okay.

He left. Keyinde squeezed herself where she sat soliloquizing.

Keyinde: God please watch him for me. Make him return to me safely.

About an hour later, she was already tired of waiting for her brother. She stood up and was about to go and look for him when she saw him carrying something in a sack he found around. The content in the sack turned out to be a very big bushmeat and some coconuts. She ran with the little strength in her immediately she saw him looking like someone stabbed from the back with the load on his back to help him with the load. She collected the load from him and he fell down Immediately. Keyinde dropped the sack immediately and carried her brother.

Keyinde: Ègbón mi what has happened to you again?

She checked his body and saw bruises all over his body then she started shedding tears.

Keyinde: What happened to you? Talk to me please!!

She looked up into the heavens with tears running down her cheeks.

Keyinde: Iya mi Olufunke!! You're wherever you are now looking at your children suffer like this. Please!!! Don't just watch us, show us the way out of this suffering, we're just ten years old.

She picked some insects and put it on the bruises. These insects served as medicines to seal the wound.

Keyinde (in tears): Just be cool, okay? I'll make sure you're well again and we'll keep on moving.

She treated him with the insects and prepared the bushmeat for eating.