_ I don't feel like I'm an African… Hasina sighed while deposing her spoon on the table.
_ Huh? Sey asked.

Seychelles did invite Mada to her house for a few days and the two girls were taking their lunch by the coast when she suddenly asked that weird question.

_ What are you saying?
_ You know, biologically, yeah I'm an African and an Austronesian but being an island since ages, I don't have any attachment for my own continent. Do you understand?
_ A bit,
Sey answers while munching her salted fish.

Hasina turns her head towards the sunset.

_ For example, neighbor country must have been in alliance or in a war someday, those are forming a kind of bound between them. But for me, until I meet England and France, I didn't even know my neighbor's name expect some Arabic country who did commercialize with me…
_ Same for me
, Sey answered.
_ Yeah, but everyone likes you Sey.

Seychelles watch the girl in front of her while devouring another salted fish.

_ Nope, they like you too-
_ Until recently!

Mada sighed and took her spoon, toying with her rice.

_ Until recently, they mistook me for that idiotic m-movie, she stuttered, her cheeks a bit red.

''Ah'' though Seychelles while chuckling.

_ More seriously, when Mr. America did make that movie, why did he put a lion, zebra, hippopotamus and giraffe into it? Those animals don't even exist in my country and some tourists are always disappointed! Yeah, I'm an African country but I don't have even 'a single' lion so what? It's stereotypic!

She calmed herself a bit by stuffing more rice in her mouth.
Sey, her did finish all of the fish and was cleaning her mouth with a tissue.

_ I know what you feel, she said, in a way, we have more or like the same gene and we're both islands. We, islands of the Indian Ocean are not that close to our neighbor on the continent but in the future, I think, it will be different.

A silence passed by between the two of them when a person suddenly appears behind some bushes. The girls, surprised, jumped out of their chairs screaming.

_ Wh-what?! Mr. Egypt, what are you doing here? Hasina asked.

The Egyptian did not answer but was approaching them. He then, hands out a letter, giving them a nod and disappears like he appeared.

_Huh? The girls asked at the same time.

Mada looks at the letter in her hands and decided to open it.

_ So, what's written? Sey asked, trying to take a peek.

The other girl fall in her chair, dumbfounded.

_ Seychelles, It seems that the future you mentioned is near…

That one letter did change the perspective of some African countries for Madagascar