The Ancient Beast (Adere's Mission)

Chapter 30

"Are you actually joking or you mean what you are saying?" this is the question that ran through the head of Mori but then she did not want to answer him. The man then got angry and added,

"Why do I have to keep wasting my time and asking you a lot of questions at the same time. It is left for me to do what I am supposed to do instead of being the reason why things are happening the way that they are happening. I will take you out of this place and you are going to follow me to the land where I will be heading to young lady. Remember that you chose this path for yourself and that i did not choose it for you. Do not later say that it was my fault because it was not my fault that you messed up your life. What I am saying is that it is better you do what you are supposed to do. It is even more better that you did not choose anything because when we reach that land you will see with your own eyes what I am going to do to you there and right there you would wish that you never had to want anything"

The man angrily took hold of Mori and began to drag her out of the room where he had gotten a carriage ready, a carriage that would see them to another land, the distant land that he was talking about. As he dragged Mori there was something that he noticed, he noticed that Mori was not struggling with him, Mori instead was looking at him and his ways of doing things, she did not make any face or try to resist his dragging but the man did not want to care about these things, instead he went further until he had dragged her outside the room and had forced her to climb the carriage. Mori sat on it and kept looking at the man, no wanting to do anything with him or even ask him any questions. The diviner mounted the carriage and started the horse. The horse rode away from the land where Mori came from.

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Adere's mother was actually enjoying this story; this was as they marched to the land of Akuzu where Edu promised to ensure that nothing would happen to them if they were to nest near the mountains.

"I am so much desperate to know what actually happened next, I mean I am so much desperate to know the end of this story of yours my dear. who would not want to know how you survived all the things that came staring at you in the face. This story reminds me a lot, yes it reminds me of what happened to me years back. But before I cut you short I would rather wait to hear the end of your tale and maybe I will be made to tell you things that you did not know about me. Continue with your story Mori"

Mori smiled and said,

"What gives me hope where you are is your understanding..I know that your son carries this same understanding that I see in you. I am so much happy that you are the kind of person that I would want to have as a person. I mean most times it is not about who wants to do things but who are ready to make what they do an impact in the lives of others. You will train him well or should it be said that you have trained him well for the work ahead and I am so much happy"

At that moment Adere's mother was staring at her and the reason she was staring at her was to know actually why she kept referring to her son as if there was no other person that she had seen in the midst except her son Adere.

"You mention his name quite often and I know within myself that this is not ordinary. What it means is that you are saying something that I should know but what gives me more joy in the heart is the evidence of your boldness. You are bold and that boldness is not in vain..Tell me my daughter what I would like to know; about my son, when will these things be?"

"I can not tell Ma, I can not begin today tell you that now because even I myself do not know. What I am very much aware of is the fact that very soon he will start. I know the echos of the voice of the gods sounding and resounding inside of me and all I can tell is that there is nothing as special as being in the same category with the others. What else am I ever going to say if not the fact that there are others with us. Let me tell you this Ma, do not bother yourself so much about these things, these things will happen when the gods deem them fit to happen, they will not happen because you are desperate enough to see them happen or because you don't want to witness them happen at all. But if I must ask you, why is it that you would not want these things to happen? I am so much serious and I would like to know?".

"You yourself have said it without me telling you my daughter and it is because of my son. My son is my all in all. Without my son I would not have been alive till today. I am so happy that he is destined for bigger things but what I am not happy about is the fact that those that re destined for big things in this world do not stay alive long enough to make their loved ones happy or fulfiled. What is the use then if he becomes a great man but ends up not living up to make me happy. He is my only son and I love him so much. I would not trade him with anyone. You know that when a mother begin to care so much for her son there is only one thing that it means, it means he can give up her own life for the sake of that of her child. Great people do not last long and that is why I am not happy that my only son is being predicted for greatness, with his greatness I will not stand a chance to continue to call him my son instead I will be forced to see him when ever the gods decide. What a big waste of time. I can see without being told that I am no longer going to allow these things to continue but who am I to fight with the god, who am I to stand them, am I not just a smoke that will disappear? Am I going to stay here forever? I do not think so and so I am nothing with the gods. I am nothing to challenge them. If I try to challenge them I will be endangering my own life. What my son is does not change that I want him to stay alive for me. Please my daughter as it seems now you are close to the gods and somehow you commune with them most of the time. I just want you to tell them, tell them that I am not happy with what they are doing to my life, first it was a man that I loved so much and then when they were sure that i was never going to be able to make it again then they descended on me and by then I was already beginning to ask myself; what have I done to the gods, why do they hate me this much, why have they decided that I am never going to have peace. My daughter if I keep telling you of the things that I passed through you would pity me, if I continue to tell you of how the gods had indirectly punished me you would feel so sorry for me. Just look at me now, when I had already begun to think that my husband was no longer going to be subjected to one kind treatment it came down to me that it was not like that. I began to run from here and to there but one thing I know about the gods is that if they decide to elevate you they first make you confused. I decided that since my husband's death I was not going to allow myself be subjected to something that I did not know about. Here I am, looking around from one place to another and wondering why on Earth things seemed the way that they seemed. This talks from me is for you to help me ask the gods why they suddenly want to strip me of everything that I own by taking away my only son. This is what you will have to do for me before you continue telling me the story that you have been telling me. I really want to know what they really want from me"

Mori could see the shaking of the voice of Adere's mother and then she looked towards the front and saw that Adere was carried away by his discussion with Edu that he did not notice that his mother was about to sob. She did not want to say a word but put her hand across her shoulder.