"Where is he?" I asked in a panic. No one met my eyes.
I felt like the air from sucked out of my lungs. The air around me was sucked up into a vacuum as well. Everything was losing colour.
Why wouldn't they tell me where he was? I needed to see him!
I ran towards the forest. My feet were barely grazing the mud underfoot. The heavens were crying onto my face and the orishas were trying to swallow me into the soil. But I resisted their hold! I needed to get to him before it was too late. I needed to make sure he was safe.
He was all the family I had left in this world.
He's all I had left.
I needed to find him.
Please, father, grant me your strength, I begged him through the grey cloak of the weeping sky.
"Nik!" I heard a voice all call out. That must be him. I am getting close, I told myself. I was almost there.
