‘Why is it so hard to pronounce Tony? Mum!’ Ruth exclaimed.
‘I was surprised at how you got the picture and by the way, he’s dead.’ She replied. ‘Dead? How
come?’ She asked turning the picture away from her view, she didn’t want to see the picture again.
‘He’s your father’s friend that died of asthma.’ She replied.
ASTHMA AGAIN? She uttered. Her heart was beating so fast, she was weeping and very afraid. “I can die at anytime too.” She thought.
***
The villages under the Kings’ kingdom
had a severe meeting and decided the
heads of each village will go and visit
the king towards the religion he’s now
interested in. He had deserted the
traditional religion and priests for
Pastors and churches. The other villages
were still in the religion he deserted as
an ungodly one.
The King was in the palace with his
cabinet members discussing on the way
forward when these Village heads
stepped in to pick a day for them to have
a meeting with him since he was busy.
The King told them to sit down, they
would discuss everything out that day.
They started their discussions, the
cabinet members were also included in
the meeting. The King refused to switch
back to traditional religion other villages
were in, he spoke to them about the new
religion but all refused, including the
cabinet members. They promised to start
waging war with the King until he
changes his religion and come back to
bow before the gods of their land.
THE BATTLE LINE HAS BEEN DRAWN.
They left after uttering the phrase. The
King was although frightened but didn’t
show it so that they’d know that he
believed in the God he was serving.
….
Ruth didn’t care to know more about
Tony, like Darasimi has been doing. She
went on with her life. The new year was
already close, preparations for the new
year festival started. The King had
always been waiting for this time, its
usually a time the King will travel to
various villages under his Kingdom to
know how far with them.
Daniel had bought Darasimi a lot of gifts,
including his mother and sister. He
wrapped them all and se out that
afternoon of the 31st of December. It
was 7:00pm already, although, the King
wasn’t around, already in a village where
he would sleep and continue his journey
the next day which was the new year.
Daniel got back home exactly 9:30pm,
the Queen was in charge of the palace
then. She questioned him severally to
know if he was coming from Dara’s
place. “Just a little time left for her to
die.” The Queen thought in her.
It was just the first day of another year.
Everything was getting rosy, Daniel left
the house that morning and went to
Darasimi’s place. He had the intention of
provoking the Queen and the Princess, he
was very much good at that.
Dara’s mother, Funke cooked and killed
only a chicken. She was happy seeing
Dan at their place to celebrate christmas
with them. It was already around the
evening, some minutes after four when
Daniel and Darasimi took a walk outside
to the forest side.
They started their discussion about the
passport photograph. Daniel searched his
entire pocket and wallet but couldn’t find
the passport photograph. He was
surprised he loosed the passport like
that. They continued their discussion
about it.
‘Its very surprising. But wait, let’s link
some things together.’ Daniel uttered and
halted.
‘Oya, start linking.’ Darasimi smiled.
‘Em.. Tony was the King’s best friend. He
died of asthma and Ruth is asthmatic,
we all know that asthma is heredity, so
we can link it that Tony gave birth to
Ruth and it looks as if the King gave
birth to you.’ He uttered thoughtfully.
‘Nawa oh.. I’ve never thought this way,
let’s make a plan………
…
The Queen was alone in the room, she
was thinking about Tony. The picture
Ruth brought to her was just like
bringing a remembrance of the past to
her. She called on a maid to call her
Ruth, Ruth got there smiling. She was by
the pool side with her friends while her
mother called her.
“Where did you get the passport
photograph from?” She inquired.
‘Em… I told you before na.’ She replied.
‘No.. You didn’t oh.’ Queen insisted.
‘Alright. I saw it in Daniel’s pause.’ She
replied.
“DANIEL?”
To be continued
