Chapter 9

The second peace of map

Kai and Kilu got back to the broken down hut and used the key to open the silver box and retrieved the second part of the map. After they studied the map and found that the secret path led them towards East, but they had to follow the stream along the way. To Kai she felt that she was retracing the similar path she had come as there were things she recognised and she drew the attention to Kilu, 'I am sure I came this way before are you sure this is the way East?'
We got to make a detour as the way East is blocked off by mountains and the only way is to follow the path back along the stream to a hidden cave acording to the directions on the map.'
'Give me the map and let me see if there is an easier way!' Kai was better at directions. They both sat on a rock and both closely examined the map and realised that Kilu was right there was no other way round the problem and said, will who ever hid the secrets of this book wanted to make it hard for any one to find, so it must be very precious or dangerous!!!' Kai said. 'It's going to take several dawns to get there.'
Kilu replied 'Yes so the sooner we start moving the sooner we get there.'

Kai and Kilu carried on walking in silence each in their own thoughts. Kai thought she could hear someone crying now and again, but could not quite tell where it was coming from and she draw the attention to Kilu, 'Listen can you hear some one crying?'
'Naw, it probably some parrots imitating or something.' Kilu replied.
'You're probably right.' Kai said. But still felt uneasy but kept trying to put it out of her mind.

Kilu asked Kai if she was hungry and Kai said she was hungry as they not eaten since they left the North Shore, but there was not much food about and then Kilu brought out a large package and Kai wondered where he got the food and said 'where did you get that food? It's so much.'
'Mum made it up for us just before we left,' Kilu explained.
'Great, your mum's good and they both found a suitable place to have their picnic.
Kai told Kilu we better only eat a small portion as we don't know how many dawns to get to our destination.' So they both choose a banana and had half each and some honey Sam-wages and then they put the rest of the food away and want to drink at the stream.

Kai was still bothered about that continuous crying and wondered if there was someone needed help, but she did not want to bother telling Kilu again as he might think it was just her imagination. It was as if it was calling out for help, yet thinking what Kilu said about the parrots nesting in the area and then she realised that the parrots would have imitated the sound which means that where the cry was real and there was someone in need of help but where?

To be continued