Green is showing ahead of me, and even though it is being far away, it is poking over the edge of the ground, and I am seeing treetops. I am feeling heat eating me inside and I am knowing that what is happening to Onyii when she is getting sick and dying is happening to me too. People are calling it cancer and though I am knowing that it is eating human thing and changing blood and organ to be poison, it is also doing something like this to metal. I am feeling inside me that thing is breaking. Thing that is making me to be running forever and never tiring, thing that is making me to be breathing air and processing it and exhaling it, thing that is making me to think with my brain, thing that is giving me feeling in my heart.

All of sudden air is coming easy to me and my chest is not making rasping noise when I am breathing. I am not feeling heavy and there is being wetness in the air and it is cooling my face. I am not hearing the hissing I am always hearing in the Redlands, the sound of important thing burning, and I am falling to my knees on the other side of what is like invisible wall between world that is poison and world that is not trying to be killing me.

Tree is closer to me, and I am being happy to be seeing so much green because it is like it is saying to me, Welcome, and it is opening arm to me and telling me to come inside. I am picking myself up and looking behind me and seeing that the Enyemaka are becoming closer. They are moving so fast even though they are looking like they are moving slow slow but I am knowing how much ground they are eating beneath them and the sound of their running is like giant THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP against the ground like army of juggernaut is chasing me. It is making me think of Lagos and the first time I am feeling fear but I am throwing that remembering away and turning to the forest and running because it is cool and safe and familiar and I am knowing how to be climbing trees and hiding under big leaves and telling where is shorthorn and where is passing wulfu and other animals.

It is always feeling like it is just finished raining in forest, like it is bubble holding living thing and protecting them from angry, dangerous world, and I am just one more thing it is protecting. I am running over root and sliding over tree trunk that is falling sideways. Baby wulfu is looking at me as I am running by then returning to their play and it is like being with friend again.