The place was dark and Manzy was restless and he didn’t know the way forward or backward.

A great light appeared suddenly and a tall creature stood in front of him, it had long horns, was hairy and fat in complexion. It was a Faun. Fear consumed Manzy and he forgot that he was in a mysterious forest. No sooner came other two creatures which looked alike but they were smaller than the first creature and they roared aggressively.

Their appearance left Manzy in agony. He shot his arrow but it looked like it was nothing against the body of those creatures, it didn’t have any effect at all. The creatures were fast and Manzy began to run. He ran extremely fast to save his life.

Back home Vitima had no option, the whole community turned against her. She was caught in a middle of keeping it to herself or lose her life. Life was indeed difficult for her, people never stopped visiting her.

“Where is our hunter?” People shouted. Some hunters rejoiced and wished Manzy to have gone forever. Some sympathized with her and consoled her.

“He went hunting,” she repeated. She felt sorry for herself, mainly for her husband and two children. Disclosure of his whereabouts would put his family in a danger, she thought to herself.

“I told him not to go but he insisted,” she said, tears flowing down endlessly, she was the princess of the village.

No other woman was beautiful like her and people were afraid to offer a hand of proposal to her. As some thought Vitima’s beauty was a sort of femme fatale. Manzy had spent days to soften her heart and most people thought he was wasting time. He made fetishistic movements and tricks to win her.

“Let her free, if Manzy is dead why should she be affected?” said one of Manzy’s enemies.

“She has been saying that Manzy went hunting,” Yonas continued.

“You very well know Manzy hunts with no one, I may be his enemy though but taking the life of this innocent woman is wrong. Let’s all, despite holding grudges against Manzy, embark on a journey to search for him.”

Some people whispered while other objected to the idea.

“Yes, if you all love Manzy then why should you punish her instead of going to look for him?” another hunter said.

“But where did he go hunting?” the first hunter asked.

Yonas knew where Manzy was, he envied him more and more as he was aware that his life wouldn’t be same anymore. However, he didn’t want to disclose it.

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Tell us: What would you do if you were Vitima??