Angel Of Death

Chapter 7

The bar man got infuriated and began to flog her with the whip. He flogged her until she fell on the ground. Some of the men in the bar came forward and began to kick her. They were kicking her and making sire she never had any means of getting up on her feet again. She remained on the ground and kept munching the meat in her mouth. She knew that most times people do what they do because they had authority and they feel those beneath them should be treated the way they do not deserve because they will have no means of fighting back and the choice have been removed from their hands. She remained seated their while some of the men spat on her and other kicked her at her back. She remained seated and wondering if all the men in the bar owned the bar of if they were all looking for who to maltreat and then the opportunity presented itself. She remained seated and kept wondering why the bar man was not as angry as those men that joined him to beat her. I think she knew, the answer was that most people are more wicked than they should be and those who complain much about some thing truly have not experienced half of what those who should complain more have experienced. This thought kept in her mind and she remembered her father. She knew the man as a man of so much wisdom and understanding. He raised her to have fear and to have pity on those who deserved to be pitied.

She tried to stand up again and another man kicked so hard and she fell back. A thought flashed her mind and that was how her father heated just as she was being beaten. On that day she had gone with him to the king's palace because the king of Sepha had taken the land that belonged to her father and on that day her father was mercilessly beaten by the King's men. On that day, as she was returning home with her father she could see that he was smiling instead of crying. Although she had never seen her father cry before that was what she had expected from him that day for the beating the soldiers in the palace of the king of Sepha gave to him was enough to make anyone cry. Ayva could remember what her father had said to the king of Sepha and how the king of Sepha had felt insulted and had commanded that Ayva's father be beaten and thrown out of the palace. Ayva's father who refused to move told the king that taking what did not belong to him was stealing and that it was against their law for a man to steal. He went further to tell the king that he was the rightful owner of the land the king took from him and that the land was handed over to him by his father (that is Ayva's father) and that the king had no right to take what did not belong to him. Ayva could remember that his father despite the fact that he was so poor did not fear the king, instead he felt that the king was equal to him as a man. Ayva could aslo remember that her father used to tell her that all men are equal and that no man should maltreat his fellow man for any reason. Her father believed in equality and understanding of one another. Her father once told her that a man without understanding is a like a man who has everything he needs but but lacks the understanding of how to make use of what he had gathered.

On that day the king of Sepha, who had felt so insulted by the way the father to Ayva spoke to him immediately sprang up and commanded that Ayva's father be arrest and taken to his dungeon. This statement was about to be obeyed not after one of the King's men whispered to the king and the king having listened to the man ordered that Ayva's father be thrown outside and never to be allowed to set his foot in the compound of the palace again. Ayva was taken aback as she watched her father carried shoulder high and being taken to the outside the palace. Ayva had ran after them and had kept on hitting the guards who had been ordered to throw her father out. She kept on hitting them until she herself was bundled up and were thrown outside alongside her father. The father had got up and had told her that most people in the world would like to take and continue to take but only few people would like to give. The father told her and advised her to be on the side of those who give and never get tired of giving. This statement from her father was what had always kept her going and she knew that her father being the kind man that he was did not receive much from the world as he deserved. She felt that her father was wise but was not rich. If wisdom was to be riches her father would have been the richest in Sepha but then if wisdom was to be riches there would be no wisdom at all, for riches without wisdom is not true riches.

Ayva's father and Ayva after they had been thrown out had told Ayva that if they reached home she should not tell her mother of what happened to them. He made her to understand that her mother was quite a thinker and if such a thing was to be made known to her (Of how they were beaten and thrown out of the palace of the king of Sepha) She would not be able to bear the shock and she might get sick. Ayva agreed not o reveal to her mother of what happened and she did not. She watched her father when they reached home of how he tactfully lied to her mother that the king of Sepha was not in the palace of Sepha when they got there. The wife made him to understand that the man was a king and there was no way a king would not be moving about. She made him understand that soon he would be granted access to meet with the king and then he could let him know that the farm his men were farming on did not belong to him but to his father (Ayva's father's father) This statement made Ayva to almost shed tears. She could understand why her father had to lie to her mother. Her mother had her heart and she was always quite. This torment on her family was becoming too much and Ayva believed that the king of Sepha was never ever going to release the land to her father. She kept on thinking until she heard her father say, "One day all these maltreatment from people will be over and we will have a say in this town. people will then be made to understand that not having money does not mean that one has nothing to offer. The king will one day realise that even though I am not a rich man I am worth more than a rich man"

Ayva could see the passion in her father's voice as he said this and he knew that if her father did not wipe the shame of poverty from the face of their family then it was down to her as the only daughter and only child to do that. she needed to rise up on her feet and fight those who fight them. She was still thinking about all these when her mother and her father both went inside. She remained seated outside and kept on wondering if she needed to do anything in order to collect the land back from the king of Sepha. She knew she was too little to do anything but she knew too that her father once told her that no one is too little to do the biggest thing in this world. On that day he has put it this way, "The smallest man in the world can do the biggest thing in the world and so also the biggest man in the world can do the smallest thing in the world. it is not by size and so my daughter if you want to conquer the world set aside your drawbacks and go for what you want. At times what you want want you but just like a woman who is being chased by a man to have a relationship with success equally shies away from those who seek it. There is a formula to getting a woman who is showing too hard to get and so also it is for an endeavour that is proving stubborn to c***k. I must tell you that such things are not for people who have decided to make things happen no matter what. They stand up every day, pick up themselves and never looking back. It is the wish of the gods that everyone makes it in life but those who truly make it are not just those who have received the grace to make it but those who work hard and smart to make it. If you must want to change things for yourself and for the people you care about you have got yo stand up on your feet irrespective of your gender or your capacity and present what you can offer to the world. The world will see you and they will appreciate your offer. That way you have just made a change on earth and that will have nothing to do with your size"

Ayva's father truly fed her with a lot of wisdom while he was alive and she had always wondered why he never stayed behind longer before departing the earth. Her father left her when she needed him the most and that broke her heart more than when the mother died too. The mother first died before the father and when the mother died she was already nineteen and his father who announced her demise to him did not break tears that day. Her mother had been sick for a long time and there was no money to take good care of her.