CHAPTER III: A NEW JOURNEY

Tembe slept till noon when he woke up he got dressed, called for the innkeeper, and asked him where the nearest marketplace was. He took his garment a when out to find the marketplace. On his way, he saw the same men who laugh at him the day that passed bullying a young boy named Baja, so he went to help the young lad from the bullies, Tembe unexpectedly attacked them, sinking his fist into their faces him having a massive posture make them very scared so they fleed from him. The young boy replied”

Baja: Thank you

Tembe: What are you doing all alone in the street?

Baja: Looking for something to eat, the city may seem beautiful but it's very hard out here

Tembe: I was going to the marketplace, do you know where it is?

Baja: Yes, I do own you one, its this way follow me

Baja was very happy he couldn't stop talking. He gave Tembe a full tour of the city. Baja had a burn mark on his arm. Tembe ask him how he got it, he said: I had this mark since I birth.

I look like something that was able to go up a chimney when down but unable to go down a chimney when up?

Baja: My mother told me that it was the That is the Tembe of Protection but she died a long time ago.

Tembe: where do you stay then?

Baja: After my mom died the street is the only place I’ve known.

So they kept talking for while going to the marketplace they bought some fruit and Tembe invited him back with him to the Inn because he saw himself in the young lad. When they were walking back to the inn Tembe saw an old woman sitting on a small stair. The woman had ten patterns tattoed on her forehead these patterns were stars joined together. When the woman turned her face back and forth the symbol disappeared that was the Tembe of Royalty. Back at the inn, the innkeeper knew the little boy and that he was a bagger and orphan so he told him not to bother Tembe and that he should go away, but Tembe told him that the boy was with him and he gave the boi a room for himself in return the boy gave Tembe a piece of paper with patterns on it and they had the same colors also the Tembe of Growth. The patterns were with clothes of green, and the bark of a dog, you could search it for goods, and it slept like a log. Those are the Tembe’s of Friendship.

Another day has past and Tembe when to his room to figure out what these patterns and visions mean. He told Baja not to disturb him because he has a long journey ahead and he needs to rest. Suddenly the garment started to glow and a portal appeared in the room Baja was very shocked because he had always here of portals but never seen a real one.

Baja: You can open portals, who are you, Man. How did you generate the portal? I only hear about these in stories my mother used to tell me.

Tembe: I don’t know.

before the young could utter another word he was pulled in by some kind of tentacle.

Baja: awwwwww, help! he shouted.

Tembe took the garment to follow him into the portal.