d well. She stretched her hands upward while yawning. She was about to perform a full high kic

" She posed the question to herself, with her right foot hal

How in the world did I lose my

right hand, then pulled a small po

mory of her encounter in th

ing. It surely fell on the ground when I moved back frighten

pment, got ready, and

he lumberjack had departed for Okala village whe

sought her anklet in the green herbs with thoroughness but could not find it. Despa

h its north gate with the Witch's street

the Sorceress' street. He went in and the same things that happened the first time he set foot occurred a

difference. He was expected. So the

lm wine, Mr. Her

behold. Rather red wine, please! But at

nklet, in fact, a woman's pearl anklet?" She asked the court

sees everything, hears everything, and knows everyth

o knows how to speak to an Oracle, that's not c

the ten imperial Bantagi I had demanded." The Sorceres

cle of light. She moved her hand a little bit back to get momentum and thr

n shone again. Birds whistled in the sky. Okala's inhabitants invaded the s

t to his face. Then the image of the eighteen-year-old maiden he had been looking for became bolder and bolder. But th

logger, the image gradually blurred till

ite Boubou. Then he hiked back to Ekule village without knowing the whereabouts of the young woman, except

ne." The lumberjack addressed himself

lives. She simply left a magical empty white paper. I could see the pretty

I can no longer."

" He said, talk

an simply reorient my path to Okala's east gate. From there, I board

e responded to his query and imme