"I want you to forgive me" Amanda pleaded."I forgive such crimes only when the person who committed the offence is one of my sisters. I can't forgive you my dear. You are of no use to me" she walked back to her seat and before she could call in the general to have him take Amanda to the execution block and have her head cut off Amanda said something that drew the Queen's attention."I'm pregnant" said Amanda."What are you talking about?" Asked Samata."I'm pregnant with your son's child" Amanda said again. The Queen remained seated there, not saying a word, not moving an inch and eyes focused on her face. She could tell she was not lying and for a second she felt like the one standing before her suddenly became the most important person on earth. She stood up once again and began to approach her. Amanda was not ready to be punched on the face for she wasn't sure if she believed what she said and so she took few steps backward and stood watching her every step. When the Queen had rea
The dragon's growl startled the people of Akozo and they didn't need to be told to answer the Queen. They responded that they heard what she had said and that they were willing to do as she had said. Then they went home. After the people dispersed that day the Queen went back into her chamber and Amanda followed her. When she noticed she was following her she stopped then turned to speak to her, "you can go in and have your rest okay?""No I'm not tired yet" said Amanda, although she stood as though she needed to say something else."Anything else you would want us to talk about? I really would like to have some rest" said the Queen. Amanda nodded and the Queen wanted to know what the issue was. Amanda didn't want them to sit before she could say what was in her mind. "It's about your people, the people of Akozo; they are humans and not animals. I know how they feel and we should treat them as humans and not as enemies. They are willing to trust someone and as long as you prove to th
Days went by and weeks followed and it was clear to Lume that they would have the Priest on the throne of Diadoma. She also had begun to notice that the Chief Guard was mostly with the woman Cury. She sent for him once and when he appeared before her she with a smile asked, "You are smiling more these days and I can't wait to ask what the secret it all about?" "No secret my mistress. I'm who I am and I tend to remain so" he said Lume wasn't ready to give up as he went on talking."You still had the lady I sent you with you. How come you are still with her? You pay her everyday?" She asked."No my Queen, she chose to stay with me. I tried making her go but she said she was okay staying with me. I don't know what to do" he sounded and Lume smiled."If she says she wants to stay with you then let her stay with you. I'm happy that you are happy"That same night the Chief Guard returned to his hut and found Cury seated and staring into space. He walked up to her and sat opposite her, hol
The Prophetess had sensed that the Priest wasn't ready to follow up with the initial plan. He had suddenly forgotten those that started the plan with him and now he surrounded himself with new Diadomas as his elders and his council. This annoyed the Prophetess to the core and she felt like a fool who lost everything and gained nothing. As she sat inside the room with Lume, Lume continued to pace and then she stopped infront of the Prophetess and spoke, "You see, we need to step up our game else we will be made slaves here. You need to see the look in the eyes of my Chief Gaurd. He is no longer with me as he used to and I can tell that someone is bringing him closer to themselves thereby removing him from my side. You know what to do so do it. The Priest used to serve under you in the land of Dodo which means he answers to you in the spirit. You should use your powers on him if he has decided to force your hands""You don't get it my Queen. It is no longer as it used to be. I used to t
In the land of Akozo, Amanda was mostly on her own and most of the times when her fellow maids who were shocked at the revelation of her pregnancy for Akiza tried to near her she would not want it. She stayed indoor most of the time and refused to see even the Queen. The Queen of Akozo rode her dragon back to the land of Dodo where the gods cave was and she went there to inquire from the mother of magic what exactly she was to do concerning the one carrying her son's baby in her womb. When she had sat with the mother of magic she told her everything she needed to know and at the end the mother of magic sighed deeply, stood up and walked into the inner cave and returned with an object but while she was about to give it to her she stopped halfway and spoke, "You should be careful with the one carrying your son's baby, she has a history that goes against everything you believe and stand for and she is going to help your enemies to overthrow you. Listen my child, you need to secure the t
The Prophetess and Lume who decided to escape from the land of Diadoma found themselves in a lonely path and there Lume whose belly had become protruded sat down and decide to rest."Well resting is good for you but if you must ask me we need to keep moving" said the Prophetess."This isn't right. We need to find a permanent place to stay until this child is delivered. We can't continue this way else I will be dead before this child is born. Do you know of what I have had to pass through before you found me. I really need my rest. I have been running from the very day I told my husband about my pregnancy""More reason you have got to stand on your feet and fight to the end. You yourself told me the last words that came out of your husband's lips and you know what it means to fail him. He believed in this child even before you met anyone that told you what this child will later become. You know very well without having to be told that most times people aren't going to give up and most
When Samata returned to the palace of Akozo she went straight to the top side of where her throne was situated and there she hung the staff that was given to her by the mother of magic. She then took her seat and requested for the presence of Amanda. When Amanda appeared before her she then knew that the staff was already at work. *****Aromo was restless and the sister who met her in the forest could tell it by mere looking at her countenance."You need to eat something" the sister said."I don't. This is not what it should be like, i mean I am not supposed to be here. I made a terrible mistake and I can't forgive myself for it" said Aromo."May I know the mistake that you made?" Inquired the sister."You should have heard before now of what transpired between me and Samata. You know of what happened between me and her son which resulted to the breach of my friendship with his mother. I can't stop regretting that incident" Aromo retook her seat."I didn't know about that and I didn'
Aromo, as young as she was had decided to be responsible and stayed away from the boys that admired her beauty in the land of Dodo. She was the only daughter of her mother and most of the times when the mother would leave her with her younger male siblings she would spend her time teaching them morals. She was decent and had a conducive approach to things and people. It was during one of those days when the children of one of the villages of Dodo would go to the stream to fetch water that Aromo met the man whom she later married and had to kill with her own hands two moons after their marriage. Remembering that incident always made Aromo sick. The incident which took place and time in Dodo and many years ago was always fresh in her memory. She wondered how she was able to pass through it all, the heartbreak, the mockery, the humiliation from people, how she was thrown out of her father's house and made to wonder about Dodo with nothing and with no one. She always felt she would never
"The dragon rained fire in every corners of the earth" boasted Samata but Aromo raised her head and spoke, "In Ngiga it didn't rain, fire didn't rain my mistress" Samata then looked at Lume, "And you, you who married my mortal enemy""My husband wasn't your mortal enemy, your mortal enemy is the one kneeling before your side. I mean wasn't because of her your only son died? You stand to accuse me" Lume then stood up. "Are you insane? How dare you?" Samata slapped Lume across the face and she stood up in anger. "Go ahead and kill me, isn't that what you are known for? You only but kill, you kill and your dragon kill, that ancient evil creature that breathed fire on the innocent children of the earth. I know that you believe in yourself so much that you don't think someone can stop you but..."Amanda gave birth to my late son's son. The child didn't die before Amanda gave birth to him and died. I know that somehow you are thinking that my death will be the end of everything about me b
Seated on the throne Samata was moved to think again, the very day that Aromo challenged someone in her presence. She didn't know the person was a Prophetess of Dodo and that day they saw hell. Seated on the throne of Akozo she kept thinking so hard about everything and how far she had gone with Aromo. She knew without being told that things weren't the same again between them, with Aromo being responsible for the death of her son Akiza. At this thought once again she stood up and went outside. She was approached by one of the officials who stood before him and asked, "We are being told that things aren't the same again by the other officials who are no longer near us but stays outside the city. They say we do not have an army again and we do not know what else to do. Is it not a thing of pain that most times we neglect the things that matter most. Now that your dragon had burnt to ashes the army that should be in the camp which other army are we to use?""Use and do what?" Samata ask
When it was evening the two arrived in the godscave and the mother of magic looked up to her face, the face of Samata and then spoke to her after sometimes. "You are not just a person from the land of Akozo but you are royalty and the child you carry is royalty too. At this Aromo looked at Samata and wondered what else she hid from her. The mother of magic continued, "You are a Queen from the royal home of Akozo. How true is this?" "You are right mother of magic. I came straight to Dodo from the palace of Akozo" admitted Samata and this touched Aromo who was forced to ask, "What else are you hiding from me Samata?""I never hid the part where I'm the Queen of Akozo or where I was the Queen for I'm no longer a Queen, but you remember you never gave me the opportunity to speak further as you asked me to leave your house immediately. What else would you have me do, force myself to stay and have you throw me out by force?"That night Aromo and Samata went to Aromo's house and while they
Having left the place of Aromo Samata headed towards the next village in the same land of Dodo. She planned to find a way to stay where no one would be able to question her about herself so deep or be able to read her mind and suspect her. On the other hand Aromo headed to the godscave in the land of Dodo. In the godscave was where the mother of magic was staying and there she has disciples whose duties were to carry important messages across to the sisters of magic across the world. When Aromo arrived the godscave she met the mother of magic already seated and expecting her."I knew you were coming. It already reached my ears before you arrived. Is it not a new thing that you came on a day like this? You hardly come at a time like this" The mother of magic was saying."I'm sorry but coming over here to see you all I wanted to do is to ensure that I'm doing the right thing. Mother of Magic, I just want to know if I'm doing the right thing or not. I want to know if someone I accepted
"You believe in the earth god and also in your mother but between these two whom do you believe in more?""Of ourselves our mother. She founded the sisterhood and it was only when she found it and initiated us that we began to know what it means to have freedom. We were before those who were broken, with some of us made to suffer in the hands of the officials of the King of Dodo. Even though the King isn't a bad one his governors and commanders of his armies are bad and did unspeakable things to those of us that found solace in the sisterhood. We hadn't joined then and it was when we came together, each of us with her own story of how she suffered in the hands of the governors, commanders and other officials of the palace of the King. We then decided that we had to join our mother whom through we had seen raw display of power. We then went ahead and had in our minds to create a common goal, never to allow anyone intimidate us again whether man of woman. It worked for us because we gre
The next day after she had buried the dead bodies she found herself thinking of what next to do. She stood up once and paced and then in that same morning, very early in the morning she saw a great number of young men and women with clubs and with other weapons troop into the compound because they had been told that the owner of the house had been killed. Samata did not know how they got the information. They went into the house and dragged her out. One of them said it would be a waste of spectator if they killed her in the house instead it would be worth what she committed if they could drag her to the open market where the whole people would witness her death. The rest agreed to this and then they dragged her out of the house and headed with her to the market square where they intended to have her stoned to death.When the people had gotten to the market with Samata and her baby they pushed them to the ground and were getting stoned to stone her death when a voice of someone was hea
Now that you have destroyed the world what else would a helpless old man like me be doing here on earth. Go ahead and kill me" Samata shortly stepped out with her fingers bloody. she had killed the Seer.Goge and Arore with the Prophetess arrived the Sea and boarded a ship. Meanwhile where Lume was with Aromo she had begged her not to do what she had decided to do, begged her to please spare her life and not enter the land of Akozo with her but then it wasn't what was expected by Lume because Arome had made up her mind and nothing was going to stop her."Don't tell me not to take you to Akozo Queen..If you are left here or with your daughter and those with her who claim to be doing the right thing what good will you do for her or for anyone. You know why I must take you to the Queen of Akozo? Because already I'm owing her, owing to the fact that because of me her son Akiza died. I want to make it up to her my dear and there is only one way to do that, to present to her that which she
There was total hatred from Samata to the rest of those in the palace. She began to see everyone in the palace as the problem she had had. First she hated the King and vowed she wasn't going to have anything to do with him again, then she hated his advisers believing it was they who led him astray and then he hated Rimma whom she believed was responsible for the King's coldness towards her. As days passed by, days turned to weeks, weeks to months and after Samata gave birth to Akiza she decided she was going to kill the King by herself and upon killing him she would instill her son Akiza on the throne as crown Prince but she planned to kill him secretively, then kill Zakiza after some months or years and then install her son as crown Prince.The day she planned this she went to the King's room to inspect it before the night came. At night she crept into the King's room and having met only him there, having planned to kill him alongside His wife and the new born baby Zakiza she didn't
The King of Akozo that night didn't sleep a bit. He didn't go to see Samata in her room and even if he had gone Samata wouldn't have opened the door for him for she was very angry with him that night. Rimma didn't say a word until when she was sure the atmosphere was conducive enough. "My darling. Why are you so shocked that you left your food unfinished in the dining?""My dear, I wasn't hungry anymore. You won't understand" said the King"I do understand and I understand that you are confused right now as to who to love most but that shouldn't be so, should it? You are married to both of us and we now have have children, I mean when she has...""That's not the issue Rimma, that's not the issue. I neglected that woman because she couldn't take it. I never thought it could be possible again but now everything has changed. She has taken in and it's just something else for me now. Here is what will happen right now; I will be going to meet with those who are going to advise me on what I