Story-in-a-box

This is story is about the man who save a woman, and something happen something after that.

A Sudden Day

Story in a box

A Sudden Day

     Once upon a time, on a small island called Gozo, lived a happy musician. He loves playing his drums. When the day was nice and peaceful, he enjoys going to fish on his homemade canoe, which is a small wooden canoe with feather inside.

     One day, he was fishing, and all of sudden, he saw something was floating on the ocean. Nearer and clearer he realized that it was a black woman who is drowning, with a bag.  

He saved her and brought her to his own farm on the island. He took great care of her, drying her up and covering her with his woolen blanket. Meanwhile, he used chestnuts to make a bread for her and cooked hot soup in the clay container.

     After a while, the black woman went to conscious. She was in panic and tried to protect the bag she carried with. The man explained to her that she was in safety. Slowly, the black woman calmed down and started to talk “Please help me. There are big group of robbers came to my hometown and they plunder at no allowance. They killed my families, to the last man, in a futile attack. They even wanted to rob our religious temple. I risked my life to protect, but the only thing I can save is the head of our God statue”. She opened the bag and showed the head to the man. That was such a beautiful god status and it looks real!

     The woman pulled out her wallet and gave all her coins to the man, begging him to help to get her back to the hometown. The man promised her that he would help. Every morning, the man stood by the ocean and testing the direction and scale of the wind. He used the ruler to measure the distance from Gozo to her hometown on the map. Hence, he can approximately know how long it will take to send her home by his canoe.

     Finally, it is the time. He gave her a stamp that he made by himself, with all the best wishes.