“Thats weird! I was told by my mother that it was facing southeast,” Mongi asked
looking confused.
“Ah! thats where you’re wrong, it used to grow there but since people found it already it has
been taken and plucked out because of selfishness as it also makes you look young,” she told Mongi
“Mama! I’m home!” Then she noticed Mongi “hey! wasn’t I the one that lent you the water?”
“ah yes! thank you I was very thirsty well I must get going then I don’t have much time until
the sun sets I want to get the root so I can sleep near the sand dunes” she said her farewell and
climbed on to her camel and went north “I think I can see the sand dunes!”
It was starting to get dark but Mongi was almost there just a few more minutes and she would
be plucking out the shrub. “wow! it looks so beautiful and precious I can’t believe that people
could be so selfish and pluck it out so they can look young” she said when she reached the shrub.
It was big and bushy and it had berries growing on it. Mongi examined them and then she found
out they were edible she picked lots and lots of them “this could be our dinner what do you say
Mugo” she held the berries in her hand and fed them to her camel then she had her berries “yum!”
“They really are aren’t they?”
Mongi whipped around “Tamay?!”
It was her brother, he was six years older than Mongi “mama told me I should follow you
to make sure you were okay in fact, I was the thief I was just disguised but I couldn’t find any
different boots”
“So that’s why the boots looked familiar…. thanks anyway. Do you have any water?” Mongi
had been dizzy for the past few hours since she hadn’t had water.
“Sure!” he handed her a big fat bottle “Good news we’re going on the train back home!”
“But tamay we only have ten million tügrik and thats for one ticket we need two”
“No we don’t I’ve got the tickets right here our ride is tomorrow early morning so lets get a bit
of shut eye”
They set up the tent and drifted off to sleep. The next day was a very sunny day unlike the
day before and they had gotten up they went to the station climbed the train and got home in
about an hour “gunai! Kubo! We’re home”
“So you’re back we’ve prepared the ingredients for the soup” kubo said
“Here you go” Tamay handed the root to Kubo he dropped the root into a soup and fed it to
his mother
“I feel better..”
