THE LEGEND OF DAYO 1: THE EMERGENCE

was ready w

m and help him clean up and get warm. You can go inside and clean yourself. The water i

dded and clim

hurting her

ch gave her a lot of pain. She had big pimples on her face that

icant entity compared to the crushing pain she felt around her face. She

e steps, she shuddere

. Plus, she had stayed too long in it. She knew that by mornin

r face for a long time and then used an ointment to pomade her face. Even then, when she looke

arm clothes and we

her younger brother, Uch

ble in the corner drinking a warm

father was standing by her side. Grace's face was st

I know your arthritis is severe tonight! You sh

ainfully as she loo

that became quite severe and unbearable in the rain

with a weak smile. "And your father to

her mother with

mother?" she asked

hing my kind-hearted daughter has done?"

hello? And you're standing there congratulating her? Have you, perchance, forgotten who an ogbanje is? H

at him with

ace!" she said, and

his glass. "Did you take a look a

Uche!" Mr Osuolale said sudde

nce for a while, and the

said softly. "Want to add anythi

and the meat chops would be

then," Neji offered, and her

will," he s

sisted. "I'll take his food t

r for a moment, and the

in a small bowl and place

, and then she carried it down to the storeroom where the strange blind,

the storeroom to one side of the ro

with sheets and a small pillow in the space. He had helped the blind man get dressed in

him a piece of clo

wick turned low and casting a glow in the room although it wa

on the table. She leaned down and shook the shoulder of t

e young man had very dark and coarse skin, maybe from m

hut, the eyelashes making thin arcs on his face a

miled gently; at least there was

poon-feed him. His face remained unfathomable as he drank the s

dication that this poor man had been very hungry. She cleaned his lips with a napki

eji stopped and turned around, and saw the young man was standing now with t

o his groin repeatedly, causing Neji Helen to look alarmed for a moment. It was as if he wanted t

ll, quite insistently, and when she turned toward him again, she saw that he was

of a man thrusting into a w

sed his thighs and gyrated his waist in the absurd manne

enly; he wanted to us

kly set the basket down near the door. "That's

m to the visitors' washroom,

tchen, and then went back to check on him. He wa

ing stooped

e bed. He sat down, and as she made to move aw

hen he rubbed her hand gentl

rt very much. She leaned lower and gave him a warm hug. S