La Requiem
Shekau's voice seeped in through the gaps in the wall of my thoughts I had been engrossed in, hauling my sight back to where he now sat on the stone bench.
"A young man once quoted, 'I love it when people dig their own graves as it saves me so much time'," he began in a reverential tone, sucking violently on the already shrunken stick that still remained fixed in his mouth despite the gradual loss of its solidity. I couldn't determine who faced worse, the gaunted stick that was subject to the putrid and foul odour rising from the pits of his decayed and ramshackled mouth or myself as I beyond doubt faced verdict as the words fell from Shekau's lips.
Bab Populer