AUTHOR - RUSHI
BOOK - BRITANNIA
CHAPTER - 26
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Britannia walked all alone in the forest, she fished out a map from her bag, and she
was frustrated to know that she has to walk someway more long, to reach the city of
Ganglion. The jungle is much deep with tree paving a path, sunlit isn‟t entering the
deep green tree shade, she have crossed a one half of the journey. She felt far away from
home, and felt unsecured.
Yet, she kept on walking taking painful gasps of leg pain, she felt reluctant bond with a soul
in the forest, but, she felt she can‟t walk no more, she had pain outwitting from her stomach,
from her soul, she sat a large root of tree, unable stand, she groaned and slid out a water
bottle and drank a lot, she took a pause and then drank some.
Then she heard some bells, such like jingle bells jingle bells, the bells are getting close, she
could see, a pair antelopes pulling a cart and getting closer towards, the chariots are so fast
that when she gets closer to it, she felt wind, the cart crossed her and moved on, and
suddenly the cart stopped, and a woman peeped back to Britannia, then she jumped down
from the cart and walked towards her.
The woman wore a brown animal skin coat, a ruby scarf hanging over her neck and emerald
gloves, she spoke, “girl what you are doing here this deep inside this forest?!”
Britannia asked, “Who are you? Are you some demon?”
The woman placed a palm on Britannia‟s head, “girl, don‟t fear, I‟m a human, if you‟re such
a timid girl then why you came here so?”
“Aunty, I‟ve been an errand to Ganglion!”
“Then why you didn‟t go by the road, okay, I‟m too a huntress from Ganglion, you look
famished and exhausted, may I take you there by my chariot!” said the woman picking up
Britannia‟s luggage.
Britannia said “Noblewoman! Thanks for your mercy” And gently ascended into the
woman‟s cart, it was loaded fully with meat of hunted animals.
The woman spoke, “what‟s your name?”
Britannia told her name, and said “I have to go to Ganglion!”
“My name is Philomena” said the woman,
“Is it something odd to say that woman can survive without men?!” Said Britannia,
Philomena said “Why not my child? You must have asked can men survive without women!
because the entire world is woman, the all aspects of nature are to be compared to women,
The great river Oreo, this great Imogen forest we are in, all are women, and me, my husband
went after another spouse leaving me here with my three children, didn‟t I dare to come
fore into this forest alone and hunt!”
Britannia said, “Yes, I too must prove!”
Philomena took out a bird from the meat she hunted, “see here, this sweet lark, do you
know how sweet is this while eating, there‟s also a poem is composed of it, lark sweet lark,
I‟ll pluck of your feathers and the head and the beak, and the toe, where the singers express
how body parts are removed while eating birds!”
Britannia smelt the yummy raw bird flesh,
going on the Imogen forest with a woman.
The woman has been crossed at least above half of the forest. The antelopes slowly towed
the cart forth, despite the high roots, rocks and uplifts of the ground, Britannia and Mrs.
Philomena Gondwana could travel easily.
