Chapter 24: The Defeat of Memuka
King Adida of Alonika, on receiving the message from king Ukal V1, his young friend, was glad though the Lesser spirit has equally informed him of the mission, it cheered him that the gods will still count on him as trustworthy. Adida simply tasked the most senior and trusted noble, Malada to attend to state matters for his one-day absence for what he referred to them as ‘business of the gods’ without disclosing the actual reasons.
When men slept, at midnight, the warrior slipped away from the city to the meeting point arranged for their reunion, away from the prying eyes of men, somewhere between their boundaries, just a little over a kilometer to the bay of Lake Tana. There Tata landed with its cargo of man and beasts and there waited Adida, a friend
