Chapter 10
They walked all day. Ben and his sisters must have looked funny, stumbling along with their mouths open. Ben saw the comical look on Isika and Ibba's faces, and he felt the same expression lighting up his own. But he couldn't help himself; the jungle was amazing. He had never seen such a beautiful place. Ibba's feet hardly touched the ground as she danced and skipped along the path.
They walked along a road, little more than a path, with red, packed dirt beneath their feet. Trees leaned over them on each side, nearly touching, so that sometimes Jabari had to wait and hold back branches to let the others pass. The three birds flew overhead, stopping to wait in trees, singing as they swooped from branch to branch. Ben's heart rang in response to their singing.
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