Greener Pastures

ning sun still clung proudly over the horizon, though dead red and deeply eaten by

estitute on an isolated street, I'm sunk if I run into any authority" talking of which, two smartly dressed young men has been looking his way since he came out this bend of the street, they were the only living things on sigh

by some luck, find a way to avoid being questioned by a cop, and also manage to find a place to hide my head at night until I can find a better

ontinued with his monologue, if you consider the actual situation with things generally back in Africa, the remoteness of everything, the crude religious crisis and onslaught, the

hand as his eyes met theirs, and they kept approaching him with expression he couldn`t read. "I should ha

et however, except for some dozens of balloons flying all over the place like a wedding reception hall decoration an

o the back, giving his head the look of cone on its side. He really had a generous size of head and that was his most standout feature when you first see him. "What if i make a run?" Dayo asked h

an isn`t like us" he hoped in his thought, "they might even be t

lish, though the accent would have been so hilarious and laughable even

ry for audibility, though his cynical mind

" he added politely after clearing

ng his head negatively, sounding like a old beetle with leaky exhaust, his compatriot seem very less interested in whatever they were

a su cara, definitivamente es

ing of the duo held his ground with Torres the larger, one as they lock ho

s more like a movie actor than a cop, with the curls in his head combed to a right-angle sleep,

imiendo racialmente a la comunidad negra, tenemos que enhebrar con cautela, al me

rything Torres has been trying to say. As his filed partner for seven years now, he has come to accept Torres as a `chronic never trusting pessimist`. It makes him a good cop though, he has nose to smell

ay want them to be, they can never be bad until they have done something bad, people are not their most

is one out and proving Torres wrong, that he

ed too close to the gate, hell, there are no people outside anymore always, the world'

Torres managed to wear a smile on his face, a face that was m

culpable de algo, ¿

guilty of something,

voice, announced in English and fa

with the Spanish police force, divisio

as he flashed his ba

es, is sub-inspector de p

ght, "I could pay never to

ooks, guttural. He is extravagantly meaty and bullish, no other job aside hired assassin would have given him a matching career.

erview with Dayo after exchang

is you

lquier medio de iden

" he asked

have pas

, but i possibly can't have travelled half across the world, mostly on foot, and that was for times when I was

t have

escaping from terrorist in

, i can work, any

beginning to los

tendrán sus papeles en

papers, you come to sta

dly, "so this is it? what

ed loud enough, "no prob

posed market space, the side door was stylishly carved into the wall to give it a special kind of concealing, artistically b

ntrance, Dayo and Alonso sat at the back whi

e some office for probably the chief of police, A sh

ced as a police language expert, he spoke English t

eter to the police, you're being detained till tomo

call me

l possession which was just his Android phone and a wallet that contains absolu

st, it was neat and the bed decent with clean sheets, a cell room back in Nigeria sometimes don`t even have a straw mat. After being locked in, he ju

y English small small. Me friend Ghana boy three, Lib

m Nigeria, wh

Morocco, what you o

wered Dayo, "but what do you t

_ you'll b

gación de esta pandemia "Coronavirus" ha emitido una pro

now, no good" he emphasize

tomorrow or ano

such a thing on him but he thought better off it and reminded himself that it was merely speculation f

ow what'll happen", D

d to ask a fellow African detainee what he tho

a long session of silence followed and stayed for what seemed like 2hour

an man, how you

iled, a

you want to he

Moroccan, "Me ve

r the night....