Very quickly, land is flat and turning to pasture. It is easy to be seeing where they are having home made out of clay that is built and government building that is stone and clay and glass and plaster. It is looking like this is older place than rest of country. Like it is being left behind. I am seeing, in the distance, farmer sitting on chair beneath Piliostigma thonningii tree, which is also being called camel’s foot tree and monkey biscuit tree, while he is having droid machine picking his rows of plants, and the rows are not all straight or even but some are crooked like the grave me and Enyemaka and Xifeng are sometime finding before we are fixing them. But farmer is far away and he is not seeing us.

Is this where you are from? I am asking Uzodinma, who stands next to me. When I am asking like this, it is being more than words. It is being images of laboratory where he is being plugged into machine and made to lift big thing and fire weapon and they are scanning his brain. It is being images of hospital where he is waking up with no leg and they are giving him leg but it is first belonging to someone else. It is being images of him seeing new arm and new leg for the first time and looking in mirror and seeing face and him saying to himself, “This is my body.” It is being Is this where you are from? but also Is this where you are learning that you are mystery?

I don’t know, but when Uzo is telling me this, it is like his word is being colored with hope. I don’t know, but I’m getting closer. And I don’t know, but there are answers here. And I don’t know, but I am glad that you are here with me. All of these thing he is saying to me when he is saying I don’t know.

Sound is beeping and clicking inside my head and suddenly I am knowing that we are in Zaria, in Kaduna State. Suddenly, map is filling my head and I am knowing where is Ahmadu Bello University and the palace of the emir. I am knowing where is the old city and the adobe houses where people are living and I am knowing where is being mosque and mass graves. I am seeing all of these thing at once.