The Ancient Beast (Adere's Mission)

Chapter 26

Where Renu was with Mori where Mori was seated she asked her to be sure that she was still okay and she nodded that she was okay. Just then It was the turn of Edu to ask her in order to know for sure what it was that happened and what it was that she said.

"I hope that you re fine now?" asked Edu and Mori looked at him and then nodded, trying to make him to understand that truly she was feeling better from her illness. There was something that Edu wanted to ask her and it was obvious by the way that he kept looking at her. At a point Mori asked him,

"Is there something that you would like to say to me?" asked Mori.

"Yes, you sound like you read my mind. I have something to ask you; You know that there was something that Adere's mother was saying before she took a walk with the son. She mentioned that there was something that you said before the incident of the lion. I would like to know that which you said before then because it seems what you said then has a lot to do..." before he could complete his speech there was already a word coming down on him from Mori who thought that he was being too inconsiderate with his question.

"You should have been more focused with the fact that I nearly lost my life with Adere's mother not this that you are saying to me now. All I want you to do for me now is to help me in making the right decision. I mean if you look at it closely you will find out that there is nothing else to be done except the fact that others are going to be aware of it. I a still a bit sick Edu, let us talk about your worries later"

Edu sighed and looked directly where Adere and Adere's mother were both standing and discussing. He was sure that they were talking about whatever it was that Mori saw.

In the evening of that same day they made fire and sat round it. They wanted to have a time to themselves and not rely on the very issue at hand. They did not want a situation whereby there will be so many things coming at them right there in the forest. They were not convinced yet of what they issue was but they knew without being told that there were so many wild animals leaving in that forest and so they decided that it would be better if they made sure that no animal was attracted to them that night.

During this time it was already a thing of the past and it was not because others tried to make something out of it but because Mori just wanted to be set apart from the rest and sit somewhere with Adere's mother. She loved staying somewhere isolated with her, somewhere where only the both of them would be and not have anyone distract them. Edu and Adere were seated apart and Renu was seated alone. At a point Adere left Edu and walked to where Renu was seated and Edu glared at them. He had had secret affection for Renu but he had felt always that there was no way that she would be able to accept to have anything to do with him in that their condition. He knew that if he was going to help the watchers of the land of Abah get their hands on Adere and his mother he was not going to let the watchers or anyone in the land of Abah or any other land that had anything against the land of Zinu touch Renu. He liked Renu a lot and that was the truth of the matter.

When Adere had taken his seat beside Renu he flashed his eyes directly at his mother seated with Mori and he shook his head.

"Those two always together" he said almost to himself. Renu looked at him and asked him what he said but he waved it off and looked at her face as if he was seeing her for the first time. He was sure that Renu was beautiful before now but it seemed her beauty increased and that attracted his attention. He immediately removed his face and Renu sighed,

"I know why you are worried Adere, you are not sure if we will ever be accepted by the world again but the truth is that your father who died fighting for us showed us an example. We ought to follow in his lead. We ought to believe that life is all about battle and if we fight the best way we can life will conclude the rest. I know for sure without being told that the land of Zinu is deserted now but what else can we do, even us can not be able to retake it from those that took it from it. All we can do now is to keep looking on as if we have nothing else doing and hoping that one day things will become normal for us again and then we will be very much happy. I am so much blessed already and that is why my mind tells me that I have a lot to say about these things. Please Adere I know that sometimes you want to give up but I have watched you all these while and there is one thing that I have found out about you and that is the fact that you have the heart of your father. Before now I knew your father and I knew that there were many things he did for our people, things that even we ourselves did not know about. The reason that I am telling you this is because I am quite aware of what if means to do what is necessary. Can I tell you something about your father that will shock you? Your father was well known to be the man that saved a little boy from the river of Zinu. You know the story but it was not popular. Infact nobody heard about it but I heard about it. The only thing that you were not told at that time and if your father told you of whose son that he saved it was my brother that he saved from the river"

This revelation shocked Adere as he looked at Renu carefully and Renu chuckled and then continued, "I am not lying about it. It was my brother that your father saved and I would not say that we said thanked you the way that we were supposed to say it because if we had done it the way that I and my father with my brother we were expected to come to your father's house with all sought of things to thank him with but alas we were not able to do all of that, instead we were faced with something that we were not expecting. What we faced is what we are still running away from till now. What this means is that I am aware of what your father did for me and for the rest of us. What you should know that I will always be grateful of what he did. I will always thank him in you because without him my brother would have drowned in that river"

"Where is that your brother now?" asked Adere and Renu shook her head with tears circling in her eyes. At that moment Adere did not need anyone to tell him that she lost the brother in the hands of the men of Aboro, men from Agori land, men sent by the king of Agori to lay waist the land of Zinu. He shook his head and said to her,

"I know how it feels to look him after you were so much elated that he was saved. I really know how it feels. We have all lost someone that we love..."

"I have lost more than someone. I lost my parents, both father and mother and then I lost my two brothers and I am forced to stay alive to always think about them. You know what makes me so sad is the fact that I saw how my both parents were killed, I watched the big sword of Aboro, the giant as he went for their heads. I could not do anything to stop it, I could not do anything, I could only watch on as if I had nothing to say or do. You see, one thing that I was sure Adere at that moment was that if you had not come to drag me with you and insisted that I followed you I would have stood there transfixed until Aboro descend on me. You came and you dragged me out of that place and I am alive today because of you. I want to say thank you to you Adere. I want you to know that I will never forget. I want you to know that despite the fact that I am alive today and I have nothing on me with which I will use to thank you a time will come when I will remind you of how you saved me and I will repay you" she sobbed. At that moment Adere did not want to talk further, he simply put his arm across her shoulder and held her closer to him, in order to comfort her.