ALEERA VERNIZE After my speech and the senior's, we had finally taken our food. While everyone was eating, I had taken the time to go to the room the tribe had offered to me and called Namika there using my wooden earpiece. "Everyone is now celebrating. What am I going to do?" I asked the old woman as soon as she answered the call. "I'm worried I'm just wasting my time here." "Just trust them, Aleera. They are not your enemies." I was still about to speak again when Namika ended the call already. And because of that, I was left dumbfounded again, standing stupidly while thinking why she was putting down her earpiece at me when I needed her the most. Then I had an epiphany that this was my journey, so I must be independent to everything, even to those matters that were confusing me. I h

