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Or the trader could have been lying, a ploy to get the townspeople to buy her wares which wouldn’t be the first time someone had lied about cloudwatching. For one, smugglers could have caught wind of the cluster and siphoned them away into calabash gourds, the thieves! Even worse, the cluster could belong to one of the Herders from down south where Rainmakers harvested clouds daily, there could be a white-collared man sitting smugly and sipping ginger shai’i as he tapped directions into his Winds transponder. There was simply no time for that if a cluster had danced so proudly across the sky on a weekend that even an ordinary fruit trader could see it, then smugglers and everyone else would have seen it too.īombay whinnied as Zik dug harder into its thigh, propelling both horse and rider forward in a speed burst. The trains would begin at Kachia, stopping at every station in Zazzau between her hometown and the market town Sabon-Gari, a thirty-minute ride turned ninety by heated exchanges between conductors and last minute passengers.
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On any normal occasion, she would have preferred the smooth train ride to Sabon-Gari, staring out the windows and soaking in the views of Zazzau, but this wasn’t normal.
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Zik straddled Bombay, brought her heels to its torso, and held on tight as its mechanical legs whirred into life. “A whole cluster, untethered, unbothered, what a sight! So you see why you have to buy my mangoes, they’ve been blessed by clouds!” “You don’t see that often,” the trader had said to the crowd, grappling her basket of mangoes. The nearest cloud cluster was sixty miles away, almost an hour’s journey if Bombay went at top speed.Ī fruit trader had seen it on her way to Sabon-Gari, floating lazily across the azure sky.
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