Chapter 9
While they waited for Jabari and Gavi's decision, Isika helped Ibba back into her clothes. She was seething inside as she arranged the long skirt and shirt on her sister. Jabari and Gavi were taking forever to talk with the birds, and Isika buzzed with impatience.
She walked back to the large tree on the jungle line and tilted her head back to look at the branches above her head. The sun filtered down through the leaves of the strange, snake-like tree, casting patterns of shadow on the ground and on her arms and hands. It would be an excellent tree to climb, she thought.
She hadn't climbed a tree since she was very small, when they had first come out of the desert to the Worker village. She hadn't known then that climbing trees was forbidden, so she climbed the tempting yuci t
