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It had been almost a month since she had been brought from Cairo to the village wherein the Medjai dwell. There had been many things to which she had been adjusting. The lifestyle, the customs, the lessons, the expectations. For eight, and almost nine, years, she had lived a life in Cairo very different from the one she had been given here...
Yet she finds that, even for being around what should be counted as ‘her’ people... She feels like an outsider, as though she is completely unlike the rest of them.
This, of course, is one source of her current unhappiness.
Since her arrival, she been passed off from one family, to a second within only a few week’s time. Why?
Judging by the conversations she had heard while not eavesdropping, the first family she had stayed with found her too loud, too spirited, far too everything apparently. As for the second, well, she suspects from those conversations on which she had also not eavesdropped, she’ll soon be moved to a third family.
Honestly, she tries not to let it affect her, but it is difficult. To go from being an orphan to being passed around from one family to the next? Is it any wonder she feels like an outsider, or that she feels as though she is as unwanted now as she was in the orphanage. Perhaps the orphanage had been better in that regard. At least at the orphanage she knew that she had only been placed there because her mother had been taken from her at an early age.
She tries to give this second family space, goes out for walks by herself, tries to see to it that she causes them no undue strain, but simply being herself seems to be enough.
It is on one such walk, as she winds her way through the streets and alleys that she happens across someone she had not seen much of since he brought her here.
She almost calls out to him––he had been so kind to her when he found her and when he brought her here, it would be a comfort to speak to someone who did not seem bothered by her––but then she hesitates and looks down....
What if he had heard talk from the two families? What if he, too, would think her a bother now...?
On second thought, she decides that she will simply resume her walk and leave him to his day...
So decided, she turns away to do just that...
