Banhi's Tales - The Home and the Sea
The sun shined bright red even in the dark, on her mother’s forehead. She loved the glow that came from it and how it calmed her during a stormy night, such as this one, especially, since the sea could swallow them all. The small room at the edge of the world that they lived in had its moments. There were times when the sea would blow a calming breeze towards them and there were times when the tide would enter their home, threatening to weaken the make-shift foundations. There were also times when she laughed, as a child would, and there were times when she would experience pain she didn’t understand or know where it came from. The moments of pain were strange but familiar, like an enemy who you knew well but you don’t know either. Even in those moments, the bright red sun on her mother’s forehead calmed her, but it was the worry on her father’s face that made her anxious. Her parents had named her Angel at birth, but a year later, they changed it to Banhi, an uncommon word for ‘