Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly."
Another and another fell from the heat. Toby was there. He cried out to the fallen and reached his arms out to them. "Kum kunka yali, kum... tambe!" Whispers and sighs. And they too rose on the air. They rode the hot breezes. The ones flyin were black and shinin sticks, wheelin above the head of the Overseer. They crossed the rows, the fields, the fences, the streams, and were away.
Based on the clues in the excerpt, the phrase "Kum kunka yali, kum... tambe!" most likely means
A. "pity others."
B. "shine down."
C. "we will fly."
D. "pray to escape."