CHAPTER 22 The hallway ended at a short flight on curving steps. He ascended them, surprised at the din of his skin animal boots on the stone. Before him was a short corridor with a single room on each side. He moved forward. That was when he heard something, a faint musical note coming from the end of the corridor. Someone was at a piano, and from the depths of despair his heart leapt with hope. The same high G was being keyed again and again at three- or four-second intervals, meaningless. He followed the note down the corridor past closed doors bearing empty sconces. This hallway ended up ahead in a room with no barrier to entry. Holding the magic calabash high, he began to make out the shapes of furniture, and then its details. What he entered was a sitting room with two straight-backed chairs and little else. Turning and casting the beam of the lantern to his right, he beheld the origin of the music. Someone looking lik

CHAPTER 24 That place he was told that he will get Ogrism food, intense forest, in an attempt to get away from it all; have always never loved the forest, as it has really taken him through a lot. As he stood there taking in the sights and scents of the forest he began to realize how long Matendechere has taken, now the place truly looked isolated this really was, which was why he chose to get out that place as fast as he could. Since his child hood, Abednego has been hearing about this evil forest called Igodo, now he is out here, deep in the forest itself, the only things he could hear were the harmonious sounds of nature. That would of course change once he is out, back in NamamaIi village. The thoughts of leaving the place struck his mind, he felt any moment and he would be attacked. As he was making his way to go, only to be greeted by a short, dark-skinned woman and a little looking person with similar features.

CHAPTER 26 Abednego kept on running, he has to catch up with the ogrism, ones they are fed the tail will begin to grow, that's when he will be required to cut it. Now the sun has set and it was incredibly bright and there wasn’t a single cloud in the sky. This had given Abednego the sad delusion that there would be some semblance of warmth to be had but the bitter cold air shattered that happy thought. He wrapped his skin clothes tighter around him, running through the woods as fast as he could. The back bag brought him feelings of claustrophobia, probably linked to the fact that it constricted his back ever so slightly. His animal skin shoes hit the wet muddy road running through the woods swiftly began. It was then that Abednego noticed her. There was a small girl, younger than the age he taught, maybe six or seven years old from her build but she was slumped in a corner next

CHAPTER 28 Nina's facial expression was gloomy and sad by the time she was searching for Abednego, although she genuinely looked like someone who smiled a lot by the time she met Matendechere. Her skin clothes she had worn before were so shredded and bloodstained that they weren’t wearable anymore. The right side of her face bared a few cuts along with a split eyebrow. Her right arm was having a scar all the way to the shoulder, which had been shredded when his right side hit hard at the ogrism. Her injuries appeared to be painful, when in reality she couldn’t feel anything. This was just one of the glories of being a determined woman. One of the challenges she had to face while growing up was growing up with a rare disease that caused her to be completely numb towards pain. Never before had she felt herself get hurt. She could have lost an arm and felt nothing. The other major disorder she h

CHAPTER 30  He had received several information about the disappearance of Abednego and his wife weeks before at the allocation of their child Kipili."They ran and left the boy. Anyway, this child will become a killing machine," he murmured. A wooden box was brought before him by one of his soldiers, the content inside were undoubtedly heads of some of the people who were sent to be beheaded, so they were brought to him as a sign of confirmation. He had agonized over opening it, though, as he was unable to come to terms with what he did to his brother for him to get the kingship. The spirit gave him some signals and finally convinced him that they might provide comfort rather than sadness. With final resolve, he retrieved a dusty head from the box, lifted it up for people to see and shouted loudly,"May it happen to those who goes against my leadership, the s