"Sound" Drabble for Open on Sunday Challenge
Rating: G
Setting: Post "Chosen"
Xander POV
The sounds are so different here. There's no traffic, television or radio here. Just the occasional "jambo," or scrape of pebbles on the wood board in a bao game. Sometimes, the ngomas with all the hand-clapping, foot stomping and drums break up the silence. I hear hoofbeats like thunder during the migrations. Often, I can hear lions roar, or elephants trumpet.
Some sounds are the same. A demon's victims screaming in pain, the weird swooshing sound a battle-axe makes cutting off a demon's head, a mother crying when I tell her that her daughter is dead.
I like the quiet.
jambo ("YAM-boh") Tanzanian greeting
bao (BAH-oh") – traditional African game played with beans or pebbles on a wooden board with two parallel rows of holes
ngomas ("un-GOH-mahs") traditional dances