TALE OF A CHANGELING

Episode 10

Defiling all odds a new case of Ogbanje arose suddenly and gave the people of Achala the shocking of their lives, two families had delivered another Ogbanje, a boy and a girl. There's always the chief priest to tell if a child is an Ogbanje or not, but in their case it was different, the two children disclosed themselves concurrently with the events that took place during their birth, the people didn't know what to do it's been long such case was seen after their tremendous killing, after a lot of deliberation it was concurred to let the two children live since no other family gave birth to another Ogbanje, right there the villagers engaged the little kids, it was decided that when they become of age and get married they will live separately from everyone, right from their younger ages nobody wanted to do anything with them.

This same couple was the parents of Ugo, their beautiful daughter who also turned out to become an Ogbanje, just like her parents.

After discovering from her grandmother that she's an Ogbanje, Ugo became devastated, it dawned on her why virtually all the villagers loathed her so much, she cried bitterly every day condemning the day she came into the world as an Ogbanje.

Chukwu Okike, why have you created me differently? Why did u make me an Ogbanje?

Look at my painful predicaments, I can't do anything with my fellow Maidens, I can't fetch water with them, I can't go to the farm with them, neither can I join them in our village dance group. Ugo sobbed

It's as if am a ghost no one could see me, hear me or even touch me. Oh! What a world!!!! She exclaimed bitterly.

Omali walked in and saw Ugo crying so bitterly, she quickly dropped the basket of cassava that she was carrying and rushed towards her, and asked, Ugo what are you doing? Why do you have to start your day with crying, wipe your tears my child?