18
After dinner, I felt I needed to be alone for a while. I trudged slowly back to my cave.
The things I’d remembered today and the words Tasha had said about there being more than one person in my head swirled around relentlessly.
Who am I really? How can I have two people in my mind? How did this happen?
It was too hard to fathom how it could be possible.
You shouldn’t be here.
Was that what he was talking about? The man who’d said that to me? I didn’t belong because I was not Sifayah?
I rounded a corner and bumped into someone. I started to apologise and looked up to see Dakawa’s red face scowling at me. Those fading bruises on her face could not have come from me.
“Watch where you’re going!” She spat.
“I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention.”
“You never are. I’ve told you to ke
