The Village Head

The gatekeeper closes the door, making sure he is not making any noise so as to not ruin the moment. The gatekeeper puts the plate of food down onto the floor and takes out the bag he has with him and opens the bag up and takes out the blue cloth he has within the bag and puts the blue cloth over the plate of food and slides the plate of food next to the door. The gate keeper stands up and tells himself that "he will come back a little later"

The older woman while holding on the Tem slowly rubs his back, while he is still crying, she tells "him that everything is alright, he is now safe". Tem wipes his tears away from his face and tells the older woman while trying to hold in the tears from streaming down his face. "We were... i need to... tell you and the other villagers th... that all of you nnn... need to leave". "Tem it is okay, you don't need to talk, get some rest we can talk tomorrow" said the older woman.

With tears in his eyes, and a whimpering voice , Tem holds onto the older woman and tells her "No. we can't stay here anymore, we have to leave this place, if we don't leave now, then it will happen here too. Tem then puts his head back onto her cheats and pleads with her, for him to see the village head, so that they can talk.

The older woman ask Tem "what does he mean by, we have to leave this place", Tem lets go of the older woman and ask her "if she can go and get the village head", the older woman then tells ,"Tem that she is the village head, after my husband passed on, i took over the role of guiding this village".

Tem now happy to know that she is the village head and ask her to "let the people of this village to escape while they can, they should be on their way, wait how do you know my name?" ask Tem while looking at the older woman in front of him.

"Tem i know your name, because i was the first one to hold onto you, after two long hours of your mother being in labor, after the labor was done, there you were in my arms, a healthy baby boy, who was crying in my arms, the same way you did back then"

"So you ask how do i know your name?, I was there when your father named you, and Hali delivered you. I am a healer just like Hali from your village, I am her mentor, she studied under me", Tem then asks the older woman, "so mrs. Hali is your student?", The older woman responds with "yes, mrs. Hali is or was my student, she is a healer, so she can have her own students if she wanted to".

"Can you tell me what happened and why are you here? '' asked the older woman. Tem then begins to tell the older woman everything which has happened until now. The gatekeeper walks on a dirt road with both sides of the dirt road having tall green grass on both sides of the dirt road and turns left on the road onto an open plain where there are a lot of people working on four fields in front of the gatekeeper.

After passing every field where there are people working on, he greets the people working on the field, the people mostly being woman and young kids greets him back and then they go back to working on their fields, the gate keeper then walks until, he gets to his fields, where his wife and five daughters are working.

The gate keeper then stops in front of his family's field and kneels on the ground and opens up his arms, he then says "father is here" and all of his daughters drop their tools and run towards him all of them hug him.

The oldest daughter asked him/her father "I thought you were still working dad?", the gate keeper then responds to his daughter and tells them all that "he had to do something", the seconds oldest one ask him" if it has something to do with the young boy in the medical room". The gatekeeper says "yes" and then he kisses her on her left cheek.