Chapter 54

“What is wrong, Mpumi?”

“Just step aside. I need to finish this before our neighbours come back,” she went back inside to sit on her chair and continued her work. Vincent followed her into their shack. He finally saw her work on the cables. “Mpumi?”

“Vincent, get out of there. You’re blocking the sunlight, I can’t see.”

He quickly shifted aside so that the light peeked in through the window. “We learned about this at school. Isn’t it dangerous?”

“Depends on how you fix it,” she was then covering the exposed wires with a tape. She went outside, Vincent was too curious, he followed her, he watched her bury the cable under the soil. He followed her back into the house. She pushed the plug, the bulb above their heads went on. Vincent was excited at what he saw. He thought he knew Mpumi well, but he was surprised that he did not know her well enough.

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