CHAPTER 1A young woman crossed a busy road in Apapa and narrowly missed being knocked down by a motorcycle. The okada driver swerved just in time to avoid colliding with the absent-minded girl. She paid no attention to the vehement curses he hurled at her and kept walking. She did not see him crash, mere seconds later, into a pile of empty cartons in front of a shop. Thankfully, nobody was hurt, and the okada driver lived to see another day.
After his crash, his cursing subsided significantly, and he began to speculate as to the cause of his accident. His superstitious mind readily presented the answer: the girl who had crossed his path minutes before. He concluded that she was a witch, a principality, or worse still, an evil spirit in human form and on a mission. The same mouth that had
