22– Rage

We didn’t wake up at the crow of the rooster.

When we heard it Yoké drew me closer to him. “Don’t mind that rooster.”

He continued his sleep with his arms wrapped across my chest. I smiled and snuggled into his arms. After a little while I was woken by someone’s looming image over us. I opened my eyes and it was Uma. He had his hands to his waist and he was shaking his head.

I smiled and attempted to sit up, that’s when Yoké woke up.

“Are you forgetting that we go farm every morning at the cry of the cock.” Uma was asking Yoké. “Or was the cock not loud enough this morning?”

Yoké laughed. “Rena ignore him.”

He laid back down on the sleeping mat with his arm covering his eyes.

“So today you are not going?” I asked him.

“He can’t not go. The last time he didn’t go too. We don’t want the elders to start keeping their eyes on him.”

“Rena come here.” Yoké drew out his hands.

“And the last time you didn’t go because of Rena too. That day that Furah asked you to take care of her.”

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