Part three- Five years later
*Erik*
I climb out of the boat, eager to get to my wife, but she is not here to greet me. I look around through all the women, though it is more difficult to find my Ellie in the sea of red hair we now have.
Long arms launch at me from below my eyeline, but I know that familiar smell. “My Mani,” I say with a smile, wrapping my arms around her and holding her up. “I missed you. Where is your mother?”
“She is delivering a baby,” she tells me, still not letting me go. More arms wrap around me, and then more. Three of my eldest are here, greeting me upon my return.
“I need to go to your mother,” I tell them.
“I told you, she’s delivering a baby,” Mani giggles. “You know she will not let you in the women’s house.”
I chuckle. She is probably right,
