Chapter Fourteen
Years Later

Again, the little group of villagers gathered round the clearing as they buried Atepa and Yap. The Land brothers, Chip, Kuruk, and Laki, were silently burying their loving parents. Bindi watched with her husband, Hokou. Holding Bindi's left hand was her first daughter, Aziza Water. Aziza had black curly hair and deep blue eyes. She was fair skin and mostly quiet and dutiful. On Bindi's right hand, between both her parents, was Safari Water, the life of the family. Her brown hair fell around her little waist and her brown eyes were certainly something to look at. Safari proudly wore a headband which she claimed was made of gold and could never take of or 'her family will disappear.' Hokou held hands with his only son, Okau, which Bindi had named after him. He also had brown hair, curling like crazy just like Aziza's.
Bindi was due any day now, to give birth to her fourth child. Old Atepa and Yap had died just weeks of each other. Bindi thought that they couldn't stay away from each other that long. She smiled at the thought of Hokou and her like that, dying days of each other because of the grief. Which was nearly impossible since Hokou was a few years older than Bindi, and that could make a lot of difference.
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The next week, the baby was born. It was a boy. He looked just like his brother Okau.
"I guess the girls take after Papa, cause the boys are just like Momma. Although I look better than Azi here." Safari had sniffed. Bindi sighed, thinking how much her mother and Safari were alike. Lala had died not too long ago. Lala had asked for an apology of her awful behavior to Bindi, which she regretfully refused. Bindi gave in though, just two days before Lala's heart gave out.
Bindi named her new son Mau, named after Okau for looking so much like him. Hokou thought his wife didn't have a lot of imagination.