Tem is laying on bed in a room with medical equipment around him, with a window half open with one side being closed by a curtain and the other side of the window being open, by doing so the wind from the outside comes in through the window. Tem feels the wind from the outside coming through the half opened window on his face and feels the sunlight from the sun is also coming through the window and falling onto his closed eyes. Tem who laying in the bed near the window, starts opening his eyes, but with the sunlight also on his eyes, Tem closes his eyes again, Tem then decides to moves his head out of the sun's way, Tem starts moving his head to the left and left, but as Tem is trying to evade the sunlight blocking his field of visions. An older woman comes as sheis opening the front door from the outside, the older woman who is in her fifties is wearing a long brown dress with a thick gray vest on and brown worn down shoes with black lashes holding her shoes together.
She comes in and sees Tem is awake and is trying to move his head out of the way of the window where the sunlight is coming through. She runs towards, Tem blocks the sunlight with her body, Tem she her red hair as she runs to the window, with his one eye out of the way of the sunlight, he sees a with his one eye a older woman in her fifties runny towards him and sees her red hair flowing in the winds as she is running, she then stops in front of the window and closes the curtain of the window and ask Tem "if he is okay?."
Tem respond to her question and says to the older woman standing in front of him "i am okay, but where am i?". The older woman respond to Tem question and tells him the he "is in Tak village, a village two days from the village Tean, the border village which Tem originally lived in and this is the medical room of the Tak village".
She then begins to explain to Tem what happened to him, after he collapses in front of their gate, Tem sits up and holds his stomach and asks the older woman" if can have that fruit over there?, pointing to the fruit. She tells Tem "yes and you can have it, if you want it". The gatekeeper that brought you here has put it there this morning, he should be on his way from his shifts to check upon you".
Tem then ask her "if she knows how long he was unconscious for", She responds with "you have been laying in this room for about almost a day by now", Tem shock at the fact that he has been laying in bed for almost a day, ask the older woman "if there were any people who came threw while he was unconscious".
She walks over to the the fruit and picks the fruit up and starts peeling the fruit for Tem, after she is done peeling the fruit she turn around and gives the peeled fruit to Tem and tells him "after you collapse in front of our village gate, the village head order a lockdown for now, so no nobody came threw after you collapse".
Tem shakes his head and yells at the older woman who is standing on the end of his bed, "it has been a day already they should have been here, you lying!!", The older woman goes and sits on the bed, she then takes his head and puts his head onto her chests and puts her arms around his waist and back and tells him that "everything is going to be alright". Tem puts his arms arounds her too and starts crying, the gatekeeper who brought, Tem into the village and to the medical room stands outside with a plate of food in his hand, hearing the young boy named Tem crying, he slightly opens up the door and sees Tem hugging and crying into the arms of the the village head.
End of chapter