THE LEGEND OF DAYO 1: THE EMERGENCE

was ready w

m and help him clean up and get warm. You can go inside and clean yourself. The water i

dded and clim

hurting her

ch gave her a lot of pain. She had big pimples on her face that

icant entity compared to the crushing pain she felt around her face. She

e steps, she shuddere

. Plus, she had stayed too long in it. She knew that by mornin

r face for a long time and then used an ointment to pomade her face. Even then, when she looke

arm clothes and we

her younger brother, Uch

ble in the corner drinking a warm

father was standing by her side. Grace's face was st

I know your arthritis is severe tonight! You sh

ainfully as she loo

that became quite severe and unbearable in the rain

with a weak smile. “And your father to

her mother with

mother?” she asked

hing my kind-hearted daughter has done?”

hello? And you’re standing there congratulating her? Have you, perchance, forgotten who an ogbanje is?

at him with

ace!” she said, and

his glass. “Did you take a look a

Uche!” Mr Osuolale said sudde

nce for a while, and the

said softly. “Want to add anythi

and the meat chops would be

then,” Neji offered, and her

will,” he s

sisted. “I’ll take his food t

r for a moment, and the

in a small bowl and place

, and then she carried it down to the storeroom where the strange blind,

the storeroom to one side of the ro

with sheets and a small pillow in the space. He had helped the blind man get dressed in

him a piece of clo

wick turned low and casting a glow in the room although it wa

on the table. She leaned down and shook the shoulder of t

e young man had very dark and coarse skin, maybe from m

hut, the eyelashes making thin arcs on his face a

miled gently; at least there was

poon-feed him. His face remained unfathomable as he drank the s

dication that this poor man had been very hungry. She cleaned his lips with a napki

eji stopped and turned around, and saw the young man was standing now with t

o his groin repeatedly, causing Neji Helen to look alarmed for a moment. It was as if he wanted t

ll, quite insistently, and when she turned toward him again, she saw that he was

of a man thrusting into a w

sed his thighs and gyrated his waist in the absurd manne

enly; he wanted to us

kly set the basket down near the door. “That’s

m to the visitors’ washroom,

tchen, and then went back to check on him. He wa

ing stooped

e bed. He sat down, and as she made to move aw

hen he rubbed her hand gentl

rt very much. She leaned lower and gave him a warm hug. S