THE LEGEND OF DAYO 1: THE EMERGENCE

odramatic," Grace Opurum said. "Sur

at her soberly, a

"But it just cannot be coincidence. This week has been abnormal, abnormal indeed. And, incredibly, everybody that

ttered. "Even

op on credit for a long time, and had blatantly refused to pay for them. His costs h

o pay, my love," sa

Joseph said

race whisper

t to be sure, take her down to meet him. It wouldn't chang

ighed and picked her up, and then Uche held the door

her heart was beating rather har

*

nto the storeroom they found the blind hu

rotesque he really looked for the very first time. However, she was a

leasant smell that she found bot

, and its flow revealed the gnarled and g

tly to her husband, and he looked at he

day, my love," he said gently. "But, always, the air a

t, she could barely stand, and so Osuolale had to sit down

ough he knew the boy could not hear him. "I do

and then he drew it forward so that he

ce Opurum's eyes went

ation, would have brought her incredible bouts of pain, but she ju

if with pity, and suddenly he reached upward and ran his hands gently on the ri

ess with his other hand on the le

man sat back, turned round, and slowly

race said softly, and smiled.

fering so much in the world. Come, d

again, and she giggled and lin

her head on his chest. "I daresay you're still thinking about the nice bad things you use

ggled

suddenly, and was shocked to see a look

th concern. "You look as if a g

our hands have been linked around my neck si

gasped then a

t little room that she had not been aware that her hands, indeed, her hands w

escribable bouts of pain just a few

e Lord of the heavens...s

on top of the staircase, looking on with eyes that bu

t a little tingle like pinpricks, and then she settled her weight fully, and sto

d hideously knobbed and unsightly twisted by the arthritis, now lo

with both a mixture o

slowly, his face excited a

nne?" he aske

her son, and she embraced him warmly as tears fell from her eyes. The relief

r's, and with one accord both of them looked in t

one thought i

strange boy i

ally w

uddered as she co

, yes. But she knew they lived in a world where eve

f price they were going to pay for this incred

*

fter her mother's

eji Helen had a m

ake with a m

heart was pounding, and for a moment she felt oddly disoriented. Her face w

very bad dream, a

e mattress on the floor, and there had been a strange

like a pole that had a very bright bulb-shaped light at its end, a

as she turned to flee down the dark corridor, the thing had come after her with his horrible g

her and reached out to touch he

e darkness as she

etly in the darkness. "My goodne

estless. Her thoughts were worried, as usual. Ever since her mother's mira

uld be happy, but she wasn't. She knew their neighbou

's hands and feet had been. The following morning, after her mother's healing, Neji had been in the store s

the store who had seen her with s

ns, and even holding a tray of bread, a

took weeks before Grace's pains subsided whenever they got that bad! No

r folly, and known she shouldn't have

avoured her. The women had smiled and pretended to be happy for her, but a

that the news would s

lous healing her m

miracle, no. They would only link it to dark forces,

arkness of her room as

meaning of th

clouds g

s very