Chapter 16: Cush’s Final Preparation
Cush’s company have taken another path cutting out the track leading to the Forest of Death, leaving it several kilometers behind, and came to the confluence of Lake Tana where many streams flow into the lake, and to the south of it lies Matella, a day’s journey. Here, Adida approach the one he now revered and looked to as rightly his human master. For one who has stepped into the presence of the Sun-god of Abyssinia and lived, his invincibility is assured.
“My hero”, he said, and with one of his heavy hands pointed towards the horizon across serene flowing waters, “there lies Matella, the kingdom of the Sun god, your kingdom. And to our left, from here is three days journey to Alonika. You enter Matella riding your two head creature and I will lead
