Arrogance of Destiny Ep.14 By XBX

ARROGANCE OF DESTINY

EPISODE 14
NORTH OF UDO PROVINCE.
C. 1534

"Well done, I have gone and I'm back from mine. Little one how far you come," Blind Ògònò said, standing close to a bush beside her hut.

The giant prince skipped fear and went to alert, reaching for his sword at once. He had woken up from sleep and enter the forest. He didn't know why.

But it was night, and when night comes the grass turns human. "Who are you," the giant prince had said.

"'A giant head shall be taken to king Ewaure's,' the gods are saying. My prince your destiny is a virus."

"I say who are you, what kind of thing is this? How dare you talk to me like that; how dare you talk nonsense to me?"

"I am Ogono. Not to worry my prince, the person that said he is looking for flying goat, where would he see?"

She came out,  close to the oil-lamp in front of the mudhouse with neither door nor window. But she had no shadow. "Come my prince let's continue. If you don't own a head, you don't gift it out. I cannot say what I have seen the world with. Come my prince the battle awaits." She went through the mud wall, like nothing.

For the first seven days the giant prince pounded an empty mortar until the pestle shattered. He was then soaked and cooked in a slimy concoction for the penultimate seven days. On the last days, he was surrounded every night with seven dead goats as he was lying in the sand, naked. He closed the circle with every sliver of the shattered pestle.

When he was leaving, he gave him a bead – with white corals – to wear at all times and a piece of bushmeat to give to his wife to cook pounded yam and urhobo pepper-soup.

"What they use in some rituals are what they use in some rituals," she would say.

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