CHAPTER TWELVE
It was a place of almost endless grassland where no structure stood. A great tempest blew against the grass causing it to bend over. Ebube was once again in the savannah. The gale was so strong that it swept him off the ground like a leaf.
Suddenly a woman in a white robe caught him by the hand and kept him from being blown away. The woman was firmly fixed to the ground and wasn’t affected by the tempest. Though her face was hidden, he knew her connection to him; he knew she was his mother.
She screamed something at him but he could not make it out because of the howling of the wind. He floated in the air as she held him. He screamed back at her but could not hear even his own words. He gradually slipped from her hand, despite her frantic efforts to hold on to him, and wa
