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The Chosen.
My father stood up wide-eyed, and everything stood still at that moment.
"What the hell are you doing here, Bisi?" he screamed.
"Well, I could ask you the same question, Dad," I replied, and started walking back to the room where Zaynab was kept.
When I got there what I saw would have made me pass out again if I wasn't used to the weirdness that came with the Omishore family. Zaynab was fast asleep, and a figure I had never seen in the house before stood over here caring for her. I thought it was one of the children in a lab coat, but as he slowly turned his face towards me I was greeted by a creature with a pale bald bulbous head, dark, large eyes, a beaklike mouth, and two tentacles going down fro from his mouth to the shoulders. I shrieked, using all my strength not to scream. The meeting that I crashed wasn't going too well, and my screaming could have very much made the parties involved result in violence. I wondered how that would go for a second. The m
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