Chapter 24 WORK & STUDY

The city was loud, rough, and indifferent.

Ariel stepped off the trotro with nothing but her bag, her notebook, and the necklace pressed against her chest. Cars honked. Vendors shouted. The air was thick with smoke and stories.

She found shelter first-an old kiosk near the lorry station where a kind woman named Madam Aba sold porridge in the mornin