The Choose One

chapter 7: Virgin

Like in a mirror before me,

I was watching everything that was going on in the Earth realm. From where I was, but there was nothing I could do. I also turned on the waterworks. I cried bitterly.

Everyone was wondering why I wasn't among the three ladies who came back, although I was the chosen one.

My dad cried because of me, he cried until he was carried home.

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It was believed that the vírgins chosen by the ancestors possess super natural powers and wisdom that were way too far for human comprehension. But the power and wisdom they have is to be used to serve the people positively.

Therefore any vírgin that is taken from among the people to the ancestral realm, when she returns, she'll be given a special home in the kingdom where the people shall be coming to visit her base on ration to relate their problems and concerns to her and she will stand as a mediator between the people and their ancestors.

Therefore according to our tradition, since I was the chosen bride a home has been prepared for me already before the Tamar'kumeh reunion. Hoping that when I return from the ancestral realm, I'll inhabit the new Lankambu'ni (Home of the chosen one)

Our elders became confused since I wasn't among the virgins that were returned from the realm of the ancestors. And the three of them who returned have refused to speak to anyone and have been acting strangely different from the regular traditional order.

Traditionally they were supposed to love and care for the people at their return, and immediately assume the responsibility of mediating between the people and the ancestors. They were supposed to assemble and pray for the people in a welcome ceremony and tell them the messages they brought from the realm of the ancestors. But they didn't. Which made the purity of their concentration questionable.

Suddenly, the village was alarmed.

"Evil has befallen us, the ancestors have abandoned us." The people said regretfully.

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For a very long time, our village had never had a king. The kingship stopped after the death of "King Makuni" Who was the last surviving king from the lineage of the royal family. It was his déath that ushered this tradition of Ancestors getting married to the virgin daughters of the land who will serve as the eyes of the ancestors among the people.

That was why they call the chosen bride "Angel of the ancestors" because she serves as the king to the people by virtue of her being married to an ancestor from the royal family.

I Limah, am supposed to be the "Angel of the ancestors" and the physical king to my people, but I'm not back from the ancestral realm yet and the three ladies do not seem fit for the royal home that had been prepared for me

Their return brought lamentation and hot air all over the land.