Halisa was running, chasing after the cow, holding a stick used for herding cattle. It looked like they were in a race, with the cow running through the forest and Halisa following closely behind. The other cattle were grazing nearby, eating grass. By mistake, she was chasing just one cow while the rest had entered a farmer's field, attacking the crops in their hunger. With her thin voice, indicating her youth and showing that she was a pure Fulani girl from Yola, daughter of Usul, she kept repeating "Waru! Waru! Waru" in her Fulani-accented Hausa. The cow had already gone far, and out of exhaustion, Halisa stopped by a riverside, holding her waist, and said, "Bone, lalashewa ta samu Nagge Aradu" ("Goodness, the cow got loose, Aradu"). Quickly, she picked up her stick and continued towards the cow, seeing it had stopped running. She caught up to it, grabbed its horn, and with a mischievous glint in her eye, asked, "d'ume ngid'd'a?" ("What do you want?"). The cow looked at her, then flicked its tail and collapsed, kicking its legs as if it were about to die. Terrified, Halisa cried out, "Jomirawo ka taimakeni" ("Jomirawo, help me"), looking at the cow, which lay motionless on the ground with a liquid that looked like blood coming out from under it. Halisa started crying because if the cow died there, she would be in big trouble, potentially facing her own demise. She stopped crying and looked around the forest; there was no one else but her, and a dark cloud loomed in the sky, threatening to unleash a storm at any moment.
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