Chapter 6
Isika was in the pottery workshop at the wheel, throwing new vases for the banquet hall. She was on the last of ten when Ben burst through the door, disturbing the quiet. The workshop was too quiet these days in fact, without Jabari. Isika knew Tomas missed Jabari as well, though he would never admit it. Thankfully, Jabari did come to visit every so often, breezing into the large room with tea or snacks for them, often in the last part of the day, when Tomas and Isika were finishing up and everyone else had gone home.
And sometimes Jabari came to help Isika when she worked on the giant storage pots that could fit a man inside of them but usually held rice or water.
It was understandable that she looked up expecting to see Jabari, and she told herself that her heart hadn’t sunk
