Sugeng stood and looked at the food. The old woman saw him.
‘What do you want?’ she said.
‘I’m hungry.’
‘Do you have any money?’
‘No,’ Sugeng answered.
‘Where do you come from?’
‘My home is near the mountain. I had to leave because the mountain was angry.’
‘Where are your mother and father?’
‘I don’t know. Perhaps they are dead.’ Sugeng began to cry.
‘Here, sit down by me,’ said the old woman. She took a clean piece of banana leaf. She put some rice
on it and then some other food.