[49] ˈWO͝ODLƏND"

What am I doing here? What's this place? I ask myself coughing. I roll around on where I lay still wondering what this place is "

ˈwo͝odlənd". Shedrack says the trees were grown by two first Afrikaans who lived among the malachite. And that the place was ancient history.

But I preferred calling the place "The Greenwood" cos all the grasses and trees here are green in color no mixture.

The place is demarcated from where I wash clothes with a small fence and a small iron gate.

I stand on my feet, removing the dry leaves that tangled with my hair. My dress is filled with dust and my head hurts "What a weird dream". I groan and walks out of the place.

As I hurried back inside I find Aryan pacing around and I guess if the cause would be from the letter Chris sent earlier or something else. "Hey, what's wrong?". I ask as I close the door behind me.

He stopped his pace and walks to me. "Where have you been?".

"Uhm... I went into town". I lie trying to hide any possibility of him finding out where I was. If he knows it would sound somehow for him to believe me and I don't want him to ever think I sleepwalk.

"Into town? But I saw you coming out from that your greenwood". He says and walks to me.

"Er... Uhm... I... Oh, I went there on my way back... I thought I saw something strange there so I went to check around".