The whole assembly had recognised Kote to be the leader of the spiders and Ebe whose sickness returned heavily after the betrayal and the departure of Arori with her new found friend, Wuru Wube. She was lying inside her tent and Kote had just finished addressing the spiders and had returned to sit close to her in the tent. Ebe looked at her and said, "I had never imagined in my entire life that a day shall come when you will be the one who is sitting beside me and taking over the responsibility of those that I trusted most in the world. If you had not been here the only person I would be begging the gods to bring back to life would be Ikem. That young man showed me what true love is, he made me to realise that true love is not all about whether we do good or we do bad for there is nothing
