By Neil Primus
DON’T ASK ME how a Wata Muma child get pon land. Don’t ask me how somebody so stupid they agree to care for it until age eight, jus because there was a promise of plenty money. Yo see money and riches, they always get greedy people in plenty hot pickle.
It all started when William found the beautiful comb on the nearby beach one full moon night. Knowing exactly what it was he sped home and hid his find. That night he dreamt that a gorgeous woman was pleading with him to return the comb. Before he could respond he awoke.

Realizing that this creature could also speak to his wife he took the comb and hid it on his person. He was so desperate to keep it that he cut his foot and hid the comb in the wound so that when it healed the comb would be cleverly concealed. Then he sewed it up. This meant the Wata Muma could not reach it.

As he suspected, his wife began having strange dreams about a woman and her missing comb. Whenever his spouse questioned him he replied in the negative. One morning his wife walked in with the prettiest little girl he had ever set eyes on. This was the child of the Wata Muma and she had been promised plenty of riches if the couple took care of the child until age eight. He was too shocked to respond. The strange child stayed.

Money and riches came their way and soon they had more than they had ever dreamt of. The child grew and they became one big happy family. Both of them fell in love with their foster daughter. Things went very well for the couple until the eight birthday of the child.
Over the past years they had completely forgotten about the Wata Muma’s Promise.

But on the night of the child’s eight birthday, they both had the same dream. It was time to hand over the child. She must be taken to the sea on the next full moon. Both of them knew deep in their hearts that they could not possibly give up this little girl that they had grown to love. They agreed that the child would stay and they would all stop going anywhere near water.

The dreams persisted becoming more a demand than a request. Soon they became a torment. You see the Wata Muma had kept her promise of riches if the child was cared for. They never suspected that the child had a secret mission: locate the comb. She was such a charming daughter that William had divulged his secret to her.
One week after, he awoke to an empty house. Both his wife and daughter were out. When they did not return that evening he became very worried. That night he got a most extraordinary dream. His wife and daughter were playing on the seashore. They were running and laughing. Both of them turned and beckoned to him smiling in glee. He ran towards them calling their names. When he was about to embrace them he awoke.

William rushed outside and into the beauty of a full moon night. He headed for the beach and sure enough both of them were there. He ran quickly towards them. As he drew nearer they both started moving towards the water. By the time he drew nearer they were knee deep. Throwing caution aside he waded in to the tide. By now they were chest deep. Then he got the shock of his life. He held his wife and turned her to face him.

The person he was holding was the woman in his dream. Before he could even scream she had dragged him under.
The next day pandemonium broke out in the small fishing village of Barracuda. Two bodies were discovered on the beach; William and his wife. Both were dead due to drowning. One strange feature about William’s body shocked villagers. There was a large gash on his foot big enough to house a comb.
Some say that every full moon night the voice of a playing child could be heard coming from the abandoned house where William and his wife once lived.