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The argument was interrupted by a loving grandmother who planned supper to buffer the young men’s hunger.

Most young rising sons were oblivious to the land of Kush,
and where they come from. The older ones who shunned
the ancestors tongue over the years became numb.

Wunda was the youngest to use a compass
with potential humongous under the one sun.

His grandmother was a strict believer
whose monotheism
didn't tolerate wolf talk in her home either.

As a boy, Wunda had to secretly play
'Wolves and Farmers'
similar to Cops and Robbers.

Older kids pretended to be Wolf men but Wunda never bothered with the howling. He wasn't afraid of them, it was his grandmother that would frown and scowl him. They thought it was clowning but she just wanted to reroute them from problems that didn't involve them. Just hollow men foul in the night howling wind.

He really wanted her to be proud of Oggie and himself. Their parents died for a special cause when they were small, but their grandmother helped take care of them through it all.

Wunda proudly recalls his grandmother Yasny telling stories about his mother Jinni. She asked her mother Yasny if she could cradle them while they still crawled because she was their only family. After happily accepting, Yasny explained how their parents fought alongside other farmers to protect their village, but the peace was stalled, until they eventually died in the fall. They made the greatest sacrifice of all, so that their sons entire world could evolve when their hope was not false.

Yasny, truly recalls how she took the boys in after discovering them wandering under a bridge near the piers, without a family. It appears their mother may have smuggled them on a cargo ship to flee her worst fears, but she never made the trip along with her peers.

Yasny adopted the boys as her own grandchildren dear, as well as the unknown lady who never appeared, as her daughter. She always wanted to believe that Jinni was a hero who wanted her boys to live, so this is the story version she always preferred to give when they ask questions about what she did.

They visited the piers for years, with Yasny sincere in her hopes to find the woman who steered them clear.
In an atmosphere of true love, she never revealed the secret of their true bloods having a mute plug. She never met either one of the Parents but she did care for the boys like her own, and she was the only family they ever knew of as they grew up too tough.

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from The Looma (part 2​/​5), released October 31, 2019
The Looma credits:

Story written by: Nahshid Sulaiman aka One Be Lo aka OneManArmy

Narration: General Subliminal aka OneManArmy

Beat production and fx: OneManArmy (Trackezoids, Autocons)

Audio Recording and Mixing: MVG (Autocons) in multiple cities.

Mastering: ConductorWilliams

Illustrations: Naim ibn Nahshid

Constellation and Map illustrations: Savera Iftikhar and Nahshid Sulaiman

Typography: Cooper Neil

Cover graphic layout: Cooper Neil

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