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Post by Francesca~*Pura Vida*~ on Apr 12, 2008 12:14:48 GMT -5
A week later, they started to walk. They were walking to Chad, and it would take 3 days by foot to do so.
While they were walking through the forests and deserts they saw many villages being burned to teh ground and families being seperated. Kei and Kenya were so scared tehy were shaking. Kei clung to Otieno throughout the journey, and Kenya and Kasim stayed together. Mandisa was holding Bakari tighter than ever.
In one of the villages they passed, the men pillaging it saw them, and chased after them.
They kept running and running from the relentlessly pursuing murderers. Along the way, Kei fell and couldn't move. Otieno picked her up and they kept running.
"I think we lost them!" Kasim yelled after a while.
Otieno layed Kei down on the ground and picked up spare peices of wood, beginning to make another tree house for the night. Mandisa, Kenya and Kasim looked over Kei, who appeared to have broken her leg.
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Post by Emily on Apr 12, 2008 23:06:54 GMT -5
Kasim watched Kei. Kenya and Kei were twins and yet he easily could tell them apart. He got up, looking for a long leaf and a wood he could use to set her leg in place, when he found them he returned.
“This will hurt, but I’ll try to be quick” Kasim said as he moved to her and touched her leg gently.
Kei let out a scream of pain. Quickly he began moving the leg, until it looked align, and wrapped it with the wood and leaf. It would have to do.
His father had been a doctor in his town, and with that came knowledge that Kasim though would never be useful, but with each fall and injury he had gotten since he escaped, the knowledge seemed like life information now.
Kasim looked over Mandisa and Bakaris to make sure they were alright. One of his sisters had been born too early as well and not only did the baby grow sick, but the mother.
Mandisa seemed to be in good shape, as well as Bakaris, so Kasim moved over to Kenya.
“Does anything hurt?” Kasim asked, looking over Kenya’s scrapes and bruises. She nodded, half smiling. “Just sore.” Kasim placed a hand on her leg and she moved it a bit before thinking otherwise and letting it stay there. It felt oddly comfortable.
Kasim sat in silence for awhile before getting up and retrieving more wood, he slowly started a fire, and began placing leaves she had never seen before on the fire.
He made them a small meal of the leaves with which she soon found to be spinach.
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Post by Francesca~*Pura Vida*~ on Apr 26, 2008 19:41:35 GMT -5
Bakari semed to enjoy the tiny, broken up leaves his mother fed him. She saw Kenya, Kei and Kasim playing together and took this as an oppurtunity to talk to Otieno alone.
"We'll have to run again. We're so close to the border." Mandisa whispered, as she and Otieno walked along a small path that led to a tiny lake.
"Yes, I know we do. But what about Kei?! Do you have any idea how difficult it will be to carry her all the way to Chad?"
"I know, but we have to manage it. Especially with a newborn baby...We can't stay here." Mandisa looked down at Bakari, sleeping in her arms, then over to her little sisters and Kasim, with a worried look on her face.
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