Chapter 22

"How did you fall inside that pit?" Bilal inquired Maryam when they both started to walk behind Thasneem on the narrow pathway which didn't have any obstacles disrupting the path.

"I got scared of everything and I just wanted to run away from the riverbank," Maryam said with a shake of her head, "Something pulled my backpack when I reached this side of the river_ must have been a ghost, I'm not sure because I didn't turn back to look at it! How did you find my backpack, Neem? Did that ghost give it to you?"

"I saw your bag hanging from a tree branch, Maryam," Thasneem told her, pausing for a moment to turn back and look at her before continuing to walk. "And I picked it up. Maybe someone hooked it up on that tree branch."

"See!" Maryam said with a thrilled expression. "So it was surely a ghost which pulled my bag while I was running! It must have hooked it there up on that tree branch after looking at it!"