The ancient beginnings

Today is a lovely day and the fact she is free from house chores is a bonus, Achol Garang makes sure to take walks on such beautiful days, the woods help her forget how cruel the world can be, here it's just her and mother nature, talking about mother makes her miss her beloved mother the more. That woman is most generous and loving mother that could ever ask for, Achol loved her family with every fiber in her body but as usual the world always against people like her, she lost them when she was just six years old , now she lives with her uncle, Mou Garang the most generous, so benevolent, so kind and so loving if only that were true because he is the absolute opposite of who his brother was, his kindness and generosity (in actual words greed) makes him feed Achol and provide her with clothing  just so she can look decent enough to fetch enough bride wealth, her uncle took possession of her father's property including her that's right in Awan a woman is as good as your herds of cattle actually she represents herds of cattle because let's be real she is going to be married off to a man who can meet the demands of her family not the man her heart desires. The father and brother are decides who she marries but in her case her uncle will decide who she marries that's double the trouble because her uncle sure do not care about her but the wealth she will fetch, it is a sticky situation no matter how you look at it. She is screwed either way. So yes she would rather walk in the woods than socialise with all those hypocrites who care about nothing but themselves. Her uncle and his beloved daughter Ayak makes her a whole lot worst, Ayak is the golden girl that her father listens to, she is what Achol will never compare to according to her uncle and what may that be let's see a lazy hypocritical jerk who feeds on Achol misery, she is always blamed for Ayak's misdeeds because her father believes she will never do wrong but of course she is to marry a decent young man, bride wealth is not an issue he only cares about her well being. Achol on the other hand is to marry a man can pay lots and lots of cattle heads, an old man with numerous wives and a large herds of cattle is most preferable. The jieng tribe are known for joyous life style, evening parties gathering likes that are solely for young women and men to socialise and mingle. regardless the freak princess has no real friends in this village, she is the outcast that survived when her whole family perished now see how unfair the world can be, to be belittled just because she did not die when her family did. She envies these trees that stand tall above the savannah grassland without any care in the world, their freedom and carefree nature makes her love this very spot, here every tree has a beauty of it's own.                    As she sit on the branch of one of her favorite tree, she can see everything from up here, the savannah grassland is endless and beautiful on the other side is a beautiful lake surrounded by a woodland with every kind of wild animal, near the lake behind a big tree is her cave actually her home. It's well hidden that no one knows about but her, she has made the inside of that cave look close to a room it's her get away from home. She keeps admiring her surrounding when movement in the grass near the lake gets her attention, it's not fast movement that prey could make nor is it a stalking kind of movement of the predator would make, it's a dragging kind of movement like a wounded animal most likely. Being the kind person or rather the curious person that she is decided to check what it is because the savannah is as tall as herself so she can not tell what it is from a far walking close to the lake she sees a trail of blood going to the shores of the lake and here on the shore lies a human being a man according to his physique, he is unrecognizable with all that blood but definitely a man. He looks terribly hurt bleeding at very rapid rate that he may not survive if something is not done about his condition soon, so being the only person with the knowledge her mother possess about herbal medicine she decided to help this stranger. Her mother was the most powerful healer in the village and the near by villages but after her death only Achol  knew about herbal medicine but she decided to keep a low profile but at moment she is not thinking about people knowing her secret but saving the dying man before with that in mind she decided to talk to him. '' excuse me, can you please ly down properly so I can look at you well, on your back please '' she tried talking to him but he makes no movement to comply with her so being the stubborn person that she is decided to do things her way. '' alright buddy, I did ask you now let's do it my way '' it was just a formality she was going to get her way regardless so she got to work. Looking at his condition she has very little time if she wants him to survive, she gathered all the herbs she could think of and made a paste for the wounds it's not like making a paste without a proper mortar is easy regardless she got done with the herbal paste dressed his wounds and fed him the fruits she gathered let's be real that herbal paste take a whole lots of energy, the paste helps to accelerate healing and avoid scaring so he will be as good as  new by this time tomorrow but he has got to rest a lot. '' so here is the deal am going to take you to my cave where you will rest and then you can go tomorrow around this this '' she tries talking to him while cleaning him with her scarf of any blood stain on his face and body, just as she is done cleaning him she seeing the hunk of a man who was underneath that blood, he has the most defined body you can think of, jet black hair, sharp jaw line and piercing  dark brown eyes almost black. When she realise that she has been checking him out, he is busy smirking at her off course he knows he is good looking but someone admiring him with all these wounds makes it more reality.  She should be embarrassed that he caught her looking at him but  she smile at him instead, a honest smile in years, he just raise his eyebrows at her and that just widen her smile. They go to the cave and he got comfortable. '' am going to leave you here for now to rest but I will come tomorrow to check on you then you can go wherever it is you wanted to go, I could take you home to rest there but that's not an option for both of us so am just going to leave you here besides it's my home. Relax, eat and rest well the medicine will work it's magic in twenty four hours. ''  Still he said nothing in return, he just looks at her as if she is crazy or rather out of this world. Perhaps he is wondering how someone as young as herself could know so much about herbal medicine but whatever he is thinking is definitely not something she can guess so since he can not speak and she is getting late she decided it's high time she headed home and face her loving family, her uncle and cousin will surely make her life miserable today because she has stayed out longer than she planned because of him but it's not like she could leave someone to die when she could save his life, you could think with the murder of her family and mistreatment she gets from her uncle she would loose her faith in humanity, that's not the case she do not judge others on the basis of the few bad people or rather many bad people she knows, Achol gives everyone a chance to prove what kind of person they are. '' so yeah, am off and you should eat those fruits in the corner, I....'' Before she could continue speaking she heard him speak for the first time and mine oh mine is his voice the most deep voice she has ever heard, a little rough because of not speaking for sometime and the beating but still his voice is damn sexy. '' thanks for the help but do you always speak so much even to strangers '' that's what he had said to her and she should be furious because he just insulted the freak princess but that voice can make up for all that.            '' welcome, see you tomorrow '' and with that she left the cave with a smile on her face why she is smiling so much is yet a mystery but she loved it for the first time in many years she is happy courtesy of the strange man.