Chapter 18

Isi was now age 14 and still no nearer to finding out where this house was. She had gained a Trainee doctor status yet she was board with having nothing to do as there were not many sick villagers to cure. The guiding hand pointed her to one of the herbs round the village and she began to study them. She got to know what each was for and what each did. Sometime Isi got a bit confused and turned back to the guiding hand shaking her head and saying ‘No’. The guiding hand would try to encourage her to try again.

Her sister Tiare came by and asked her how she was doing, ‘How is it going?’
‘Not so good I just get confused at times with all these combinations of each herb.’
‘Oh you get it in the end it is a matter of each colour and think of black as a toxin type herb and what will go with it to make it into a strong medicine for serious illnesses and other colour herb red and so on.’ Tiare explained.
Why yes I never thought of that!! You’re so clever.’ Isi said
‘I been doing it for years, I was like you when I first started out. You gain more experience practising on real patients.’
Isi changed the subject onto something that she had wanted to find out for a long time, ‘Have you found out about how to get to this house?’
‘Isi I can only give you this information but I don’t think you like it.’ Tiare explained.
‘Well tell me anyway, I can take it.’ Isi wanting to know why.
Tiare said, ‘The only way to get back to your ancestor’s house is getting adopted.’
‘Adopted? Oh that’s easy.’
‘No listen, you have to be old enough for marriage, and your only 14 and also the guiding hands might not chose you to be adopted there are so many waiting to be adopted.
‘You mean there is a waiting list?’ Isi signed.
‘I told you not like it.’ Tiare said.
‘I can live with that, Tiare you got to get me on that list, please you must, I just want to go back to where my ancestors where born.’ Isi implored.
‘Okay I well see what I can do I asked the scientist to find a way off this island, after all there is a small world out there and there must be a way there, I’ll do my best I promise.
‘I know you will Tiare you can do anything, I can always rely on you.’

Tiare had a big worry now and did not want to let her kid sister down, so she had to do her best to try and get Isi on the list one way or another. But how that was a big question and the scientists had no such things as computers or anything. It was a lot more primitive, yet there was still powerful magic that could be used hum maybe there was away after all after all I used powerful magic to get here Tiare Thought.

To be continued