The girls who went ahead of the envoy to tell Ntswaki the bad news got to the river but there was no sign of her. They looked around, up and down the stream but Ntswaki was nowhere to be seen. When they were all ready to give up, one of the girls saw grass moving as though something is hiding there. They got curious and they decided to go and check. They were all scared but curiosity got the better of them. They got there and they couldn’t believe what they saw with their eyes. Ntswaki was not there, they only found a full bucket of water. The girls were Nthati, Lerato and Maipato. They were her childhood friends but their characters were very different from hers. I will tell you more about them at a later stage. “Jonna mme weee!!!”, Lerato whispered. They were now worried that something bad might have happened to her. “Eseng Ntswaki o ipolaile lona? Mohlomong hona le motho ya fihlileng a mo phethela taba tse?”, Nthati asked with her eyes wide open and sparkling as though she was abou...