Olokun pt1 (the wind of destiny)

Joyous Burden

Chapter 2

JANUARY 12 2012

It was just about five minutes before midnight on that fateful morning. The morning their lives were changed, the morning she arrived.

It did not start like a scene in a horror movie, an eerie sound comes from a corner of the house and when rise to see what made the noise and boom!!! A flesh eating beast jumps on you and devours you whole. No that is not how it started.

It started like all strange and mysterious things start, a young, tipsy man who had just had the time of his life with a p********e in a dingy half lit room of a cheap hotel, walked into his house expecting to drop on his bed and sleep like a dead man, only to meet an unconscious woman sprawled out on that same bed.

Typical life, always hitting u with unexpected mysteries. To say that Nosa (for that was the young man's name) was shocked or afraid was an understatement, he was horrified. “How had she gotten into his house", he thought frantically, he had locked the door with the padlock and an extra key (something he had learnt out of habit), “So how had she gotten here, was she a ghost, was she human?", all these thoughts colliding in his mind were enough to make him sober, there was only one way to find out, and that was to wake her. Should he tap her? no, that would be risky, if she was a ghost like he thought then it would be harder to run from her, he knew what to do, he would urinate on her, it was said that urine and sand where the only ways to get rid of witches and since there was no sand, he would use urine, that was a very silly and disgusting thing to do but at this juncture he had no choice, this was not a moment for good manners, the situation called for drastic measures and he had to take them.

Pssssss came the sound as the liquid splattered on her, salty warm liquid.

She began to rouse from her drowsiness, was she still in the river battling Esu? Or had Yeye found her dead body and decided to bring it back to life with a sprinkle of warm salty water? There was only one way to find out; open her eyes.

She had not expected what she saw, it was Nosa! The love of her life, the only link between her mad life and sanity, he was here in flesh, not putrefied nor bloated and decayed but alive and breathing, her joy had no bounds, Esu and the black witches had not totally succeeded, there was still hope, Yeye had been right all along there was still light at the end of her tunnel and proof of that stood before her urinating on her body. The two years of torture were over, two horrid years without his touch and the comfort of his eyes and his booming voice jolting her back to reality, it did not matter that his behavior on this particular night was disgusting what mattered was that he was here and together they were going to defeat the black witches and release their families from their clutches, but first of all, she had to cure him from whatever mad spirit that gave him the notion that urinating on people was okay. Immediately, she rose and moved away from the direction of the urine, but it was late already, she was soaked. “What was that for Nosa?" she asked taking off her clothes. “Oh so she was human?" he thought, “but, wait, how did she know his name? And why was she undressing in front of him, was it common to undress in front of strangers where she came from? Or was she trying to seduce him into falling for her whims? If that was her plan, it would not work because he had a steely control and no matter how big her breasts were or how large her hips were, he would not fall. Maybe he had concluded too soon, they were having an effect on him, those breasts were made to be suckled, and those hips “Jesus Christ", he would follow them to the gates of hell. This was not right, he was not supposed to feel this way, why did he have an overwhelming urge to look into her eyes, could it be that she was a siren, so many questions, well that and many more he would find out soon.

Moving close to her just to make sure he crowded her (for he was a big man), he said “Little lady I will be asking all the questions, you" he said poking and circling her at the same time “will be answering them, now sit", he said pointing to the chair at the corner of the room.“Typical Nosa", she thought, always playing the boss and trying to protect her from falling into harm’s way, she appreciated it and that was the major reason she loved him, but right now he was not in a right frame of mind and she was the only one who could cure him, and the best way to that was to play along with him, so she sat on the chair willingly.

“Thats a good girl" he said, “Now if you continue being a good girl I will not hurt you, I could even add a good f*****g to it, cause you look like you need one” he added. Cassandra was disgusted and hurt, this was not her husband, this was not the man she had defied, life, the gods and Yeye for, this was a stranger created by Azeh's jealousy and wickedness, a beast and a slave to his fears and lust, he was weak but not beyond redemption, the only thing that hurt her was the fact that he was scared of her and thought she would hurt him, that would never happen, not in this world and neither in the next, she knew what to do. “Okay Sir, whatever you say", “Right, so I have just four questions and I want only the truth, first, what is your name, how did you know my name and how did you find me?" he asked with a puzzled look on his face, “My name is Cassandra and I am your wife", She said, bringing a look of astonished fear to his face, “Ehn, what did you just say, my what?, what kind of wife, spiritual or physical, please don't play those games it will not work", “I play no games, I speak only truth and I can prove it to you" “Seriously, are you kidding me right now? What proof? some fake document given to you by a cheap lawyer?, Do not push your luck, the only reason you are still alive is because I do not want your blood to soil this rug that is worth more than your life, so do not push me to go back on my words and snuff life out of you", Cassandra was scared, she had to do something fast before he lost it totally “I swear by God's name and my mother that it is nothing of such sort, I can bring back everything, all you just have to do is to look into my eyes and you will see that I speak the truth, that is all you......" he did not even let her end her statement before he started strangling her. How did she know that he had had amnesia, who was she, was she one of the people who had hurled him from the top of the building that night and then unconsciously he looked into her eyes, that was when it all came back to him, he loved her, she was the one he had sought after, every night in that dingy hotel room, his completion, she was what he could never find no matter how many prostitutes he f****d, but it still did not add up, how could he have all these feelings for a total stranger, that was when he realized that he would never know if he strangled her to death, so he stopped and started caressing the red marks that his hands had put on her neck, “I am sorry, I freaked out that is why I did this please forgive me, I really love you", he said

Cassandra heaved a sigh of relief, he was back to her “But please if I may ask who are you and why do I feel so much love for you?" “The b***h", Cassandra thought, “She had erased his memories too? She would pay, soon enough, but first she had to completely heal him completely. And so she waved her hands over his eyes and chanted, “Be free” After that, she told him everything, starting from the first day when they were children, till the day he was killed but she erased one memory, the root cause of all this tragedy, the reason she had been separated from him for two years, she thought she had done the right thing, but had she?, that was a question only time could answer.