As Shanaia continued to look outside her window, she realized that her room faced the backyard of the house. The backyard is quite huge and there is a vegetable garden and a small nipa hut where you can sit and rest. Shanaia also saw a row of mango and coconut trees, and other fruit-bearing trees beyond the vegetable garden. And behind the row of trees is a river.
Shanaia smiled as she took another deep breath. She loved that the morning air was so fresh and cool.
As she deep breaths, she smelled different scents in the air. She smelled hot oil and then garlic. She could also smell caffeine coming from below her room, at the same time she caught other scents of food being cooked when the wind blew in her direction.
“Someone’s cooking already? At this hour?” Shanaia mumbled and then she
