52 - Marianne

While walking towards their ‘chief parent’s hut, I seized the time to thank them.

According to them, they saw Jack and me being chased by armed men since yesterday. They lost track of us for a while and when they decided to find us, they found out that the armed men were already near our trail. They quickly noticed we needed help so they followed us until we reached the road.

"Nana understands city language. But you have to speak slowly so she can understand you," said Bon, the only one who could speak my language among the young men who saved Jack and me.

He looked to be the age of probably 18 years old, something similar to Jonah’s son, Gio.

He briefly gave me short information about them. According to him, they were a tribe who got stranded in the mountainous part of the town and started living here a couple of years ago. Almost all of them were relatives of one another and because they had been residing in forests for the past centuries, most of them didn’t know my language–spo