After soaking for a week and trying the impossible in order to accomplish the impossible, all of her doubts and insecurities vanished.
Why should she be afraid of pursuing her dreams if she was able to become an ability user and even a dual one at the same time?
So, instead of cowering, Tapiwa developed more courage, which caused her to become more ambitious than she was a few days ago.
She was busy writing down her future plans while sitting inside the store space, in the bedroom and on a single comfortable bed.
There were smaller and larger goals, but they were all there to fuel that ambitious dream she finally settled on after those experiences.
Tapiwa's estate was some distance from the neighboring villages; for example, the nearest hamlet was thirty minutes away on foot, and it was villagers from this area whom she had previously encountered whenever she went to gather water from the river.
The second nearest village was an hour away, while the third was two hours away, and they were all in opposing directions.
The closest town, which was really an updated version of a high-grade hamlet, was three hours away from the estate and heading in the direction of the village, which was thirty minutes away from her residence.
While taking the road that leads to the village that was two hours distant by foot from her estate, the town that was there was more than eight hours away from that village alone.
So, rather than traveling long distances and wasting time, these three villages would prefer to trade in the nearby town that is also closer to where she lives.
She didn't even want to think about the neighboring cities.
One would have to hire a carriage, which would take days and be expensive, thus most individuals, especially those who had no relatives in larger towns or cities, would have no idea what a metropolis was like even after death.
Fortunately for her, she had been in one before, and given her past circumstances, she couldn't afford to stay in a city or town. And staying in a hamlet would only make her an outsider, as these settlements were mainly made up of family groups.
To prevent the unpleasantness of not belonging, she used four-fifths of her alimony and savings to acquire the estate, although the land was a wasteland.
At least in her wasteland, she was the landlady, and the entire twenty hectares belonged to her.
And now she was glad she had bought the place back then. She didn't have to worry about anything now that she could manage both the water and earth components.
Her future was no longer dark, and with that clear future in her view, her dreams had to alter and be replaced by something more ambitious.
GOALS
1. Awakening an ability, no matter how trashy it is. (COMPLETED)
2. Register a business that will cater to the needs of women (a women's club.)
3. Run the business with only women and uplift the standards of women, especially the divorced, single mothers, and the widowed.
4. Partition of the estate wasteland for the empowerment of women (club offices, workshop to earn money, and club gardens.)
5. The most ambitious goal, turn the rest of the land into an all-women's village (a haven for the women who don't have a place to go but still want to become someone in life) VERY IMPORTANT.
At the moment, these were the only goals she could think of, and if any others came to mind, she would add them.
Tapiwa, as she stated in number five, desired to establish a space for women where they could move freely, laugh freely, and express their talents without fear of what others thought of them.
And this gang of women will mostly target divorced women like her; if she hadn't had money after the divorce, she would have been begging on the streets, sex trafficked somewhere else, or dead by now.
The other group of women will be widowed women; simply because their husbands died, society, particularly other married women, would shun them, and their lives will be difficult.
The final group will be single mothers, unfortunate ladies who became pregnant without knowing the paternity of their children, or women whose men abandoned them while they were pregnant and alone to raise their children.
Tapiwa knew what it was like to be a part of this group of women, and she wanted to help at least one or two of them by giving them hope and showing them that the world has more to offer.
She will assist married ladies as well, but it will be less urgent because her primary target is women like her. These women rely solely on themselves to raise their children and families, as opposed to married women who have a larger support network.
At the same time, by establishing this community, she will no longer have to worry about living alone because she will be surrounded by many people who will worship her. After all, where would they find another woman as generous as her?
She aspired to be an icon, a female figure that other women would admire and speak about with reverence and idolization.
So, no matter how difficult the future would be, she would keep trying and do her best to attain the goals she had set for herself.
However, in order for her to accomplish all of this, she first needed to register a business in order to avoid future problems with the authorities.
She wanted to form a women's club to empower women, and she decided that pursuing the legal path would protect her in the event of anything bad happening in the future.
Businesses were simply run without being registered when she was born, but the appearance of the current queen, who pushed for women's rights and improved the lives of women, and now entrepreneurs, whether running little or large firms, would register.
It was, however, optional, and one might choose whether to register.
And, because not everyone registers their enterprises, those services are only available in cities. So, now that she had a strategy and a road map to follow, the first thing she needed to do was to leave this backward place and head for the city.
How long had she been away from a city? It's been three years.
How much had changed in the last three years? She'll find out shortly, and she couldn't be happier.
But first and foremost, what was she going to do about the money?