CHAPTER 22 (Girl & Tribesmen)

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There was no gush of wind in That Place.

We could not feel even a single gush passing through our gentle skin. We could see the skies with fluffy cumulonimbus clouds but seems like frozen for they were not moving on that certain place. We could smell the fine green grasses at our feet. And we could hear only hums and hiss without any chirps and whistles of birds and insects alike. Telling us that they were all alone in that place they fell in.

But though it seems so lonely there, we could hear the laughter and giggles of a new-found friendship of a little girl and a cute creature...

"Ahaha!"

"Ahihihi!"

"Let's find somewhere to tidy up, friend, shall we? Before we catch a cold."

She just realizes that she was all untidy all over her body from those chase.

"Wenks! Ahihi!" Creature agreed and jumps at Girl, like a pet joyously playing with its friend.

When Girl looked around, she saw the high and steep hill they fell into and realizes that it stretches from left to right, forming a major arc. She also saw that in front of it are layers of thick sugar canes. That if you would look at it in a bird's eye view, it seems like forming a circle with a diameter as long as the path in Kawa Kawa Hill of Ligao, Albay.

"Look, Creature!" Girl pointed with her lips, "its tubo! Tubo!" They rushed towards that layers of sugar canes.

"It's been a long time since I saw one," she told her little cute friend with child-like eyes filled with wonder and awe, "If only we have a bolo knife, we could cut it and chipped out the peel and chew on its sweetness and..."

Creature seems like about to drool of hunger while hearing the descriptions of Girl.

"I know how!" Girl got a light bulb in her head and turned to Creature, smiling, "How about you do that stretchy thingy you did when we fell at that hill? Maybe you can form a bolo knife, or tabak perhaps, right?"

Creature looked at Girl with its curious wondering eyes and replied fast, "Bolo knife, bi? Tabak, bi? Stretch, bi? I don't understand, bi."

And Girl realizes, "You mean, you don't know how you did it?"

"I dunno, bi" its round head tilted a bit and had that curious expression.

"It's okay, my friend," Girl then just tried to pull one of the sugar cane instead.

But as soon as she touched it, one by one, layer by layer, the canes fell like dominoes!

And there, in front of them, the layers of tubo fell like a door and they saw another scenery behind it.

Gape.

As they pass those fallen canes, both were shocked and surprised!

Ever remember that time when you first experienced riding on an elevator? When the door closes, elevates, then the door opens, the scenery suddenly changes. And that your eyes were not so accustomed at the sudden change.

We can now feel gushes of wind passing through our gentle skin. We can now see the skies with altocumulus clouds that seems moving fast like in time lapse clips on that certain place. We can now smell the fine tunes of flowing clear shallow river at our feet. And we can now only hear the water falls from our left and our right. Telling us that they can only move forward.

They can go back if they wish to, but there's nothing there. And they cannot also go to their left nor to their right for they will fall from those falls. They could only move forward to where another thick layers of sugar canes are planted in front.

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