The Seventeenth Born Ascender

Vrooomm… vrooomm…

The atmosphere is that of earth. Hot and the air is laden with dust with the single carriage road badly managed and filled with potholes at every interval. Despite that, vehicles of different sorts, buses, private cars, lorries and wheeler trucks still traverse the road, each battling for its own sharts of the good parts of the road, surrounded by overgrown vegetations to both sides of the road.

Inside the 20 seater white passenger bus, a boy, Shino, most likely aged between 15-17 seats nudged to the bus window. He has a yellow hoodie with the hood on, with blue stone jeans and a happy, excited and passed smile. 

The seemingly middle-aged woman besides him seems to have his face. The reason being that he is her mother. Clothed in purplish 'Adire styled Iro and Buba' she seats with a head tie of white on and a handbag of purple on her laps.

Just then, the vehicle comes to a halt, suddenly, the passengers being impulsed

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