Chapter 8

The finel years

Sake was now elderly and had many grandchildren and great grandchildren. They were able to survive on their own after the villagers learned to live without the girding hand. The guiding hand had not looked in for many Isola years and Sake knew that the guiding hand was never coming back. She felt sorry for the other villagers that lived on other parts of Isola that still needed the guiding hand’s help. The Gong was never to be ringed again. Jak was the last person to ring the gong many years ago.

The tribe thought this was best as the gong was never a good idea as it was always a gamble when one of the villagers rang the gong. They still always admired it and sometimes wished that the guiding hand had not left them. Yet Sake knew that the guiding hand was always thinking about them even though there was no way the guiding hand would be able to get back to them. Sake was glad that there had been many master parents and would pass on parenting onto their children and children’s children. As her children and her grandchildren gathered round her knew her time was up and sat by her side. Then Nanu her husband who was a few years younger told the others to leave her now as she needed her rest. Nanu sat by her side that night holding her hand. That night Sake passed away just before dawn. All the village mourned at her passing, All the tribe gathered at the graveside mourning they put flowers down and the children also honoured the dead. This took several hours as there were many villagers who loved her. Sake was age 82 when she died

Village life continued as usual, farmers farming the doctors healing the sick. There were a few things the villagers missed was buying new clothes, However the villagers found away round this and leant how to buy their own clothes, after all many of them would do the laundry. A few years later Nanu died at the age of 83 and his son Pepe buried him and many villagers came to the funeral and also put flowers on his grave. He had become an elder like Sake and many of the villagers looked up and respected them and this is why they held a special honour as they were buried. Now Sake’s and Nanu’s children carry on the rules that Sake and Nanu had put in order and over the generations the villagers told stories about them and how they give the villagers encouragement to carry on and live without a guiding hand.

The End