Arrogance of Destiny Ep.3 By XBX

ARROGANCE OF DESTINY

EPISODE 3
PALACE’S HAREM, BINI KINGDOM
YEAR 1508.

Prince Idubor and Osawe were back from hunting. Actually, Idubor went to hunt while Osawe accompanied him.

Idubor liked to go with Osawe; he told him about what he learnt in the Portuguese School he was going to.
Though, scrawny and with four fingers in a hand at birth, Idubor grew abnormally; he was just sixteen but was bigger and huger than everybody in the kingdom.
Though sometimes he and Osawe disagree, Idubor had always felt the urge to protect him.

A maid of Queen Idia, Osawe’s mother, was bringing roasted yam and sauce for the both of them. At once, Idubor could see in a flash as his mother sprinted into their presence and snatched the food from his hand.

“Are you stupid…this boy? You can’t be wise for yourself, ehnn?”Queen Ihonmin Screamed. The maid stood very well still; she is just cockroach among fowls.

“Mama, what’s happening? I don’t understand,” Idubor said, turned to Osawe shortly to see if he had a clue.

“God forbid I lose you… I told you never to eat from Idia’s pot again but you won’t hear… you want to send me to early grave this child. You want what happen to Ogidigbo to happen to you, coconut head.”

Osawe stood up. For what? We will never know for like lightning, Queen Idia was out of her hut in fewest seconds. “It is you that is a witch…look at goat-thief calling shrimp-thief thief.  The evil heart of jealousy you have against my son will kill you. Chest disease, that chest, will kill you.”

A week before, the heir to the throne of the great Bini Kingdom, Prince Ogidigbo, became cripple, disqualifying himself as heir, while playing some form of pole-vaulting game with his two brothers Idubor and Osawe.
It had been agreed, in the Oba’s council, that people will go for divination about the unfortunate turn of event.

Regardless of the outcome, Osawe had automatically become the heir to the throne. And this had caused some fights inside the harem.

“If it is not the progress of this kingdom and the Oba, but for your selfish interest, that you all are fighting for, I don’t want to hear it. Leave the lineage of kings to the gods, and anybody than become the king you all with support him.” The Oshodin: chief Ihogbetin responsible for the ordering and organization of the Oba’s harem, had quenched a lot of fire since the incident.

“Whatever is your evil plan, you will use your head to carry it.” Queen Ihonmin said to the face of Queen Idia, as she dragged her son by his neck-bead away; seemed from a far like daughter dragging father.

“I will show off || I will show off to my husband || I will show off || How many do I have, that I wouldn’t show off || I will show off || I will show off to my husband || I will show off,” Queen Idia sang as she clapped; to spite Queen Ihonmin.

“Go and sit down, bitterly goat…”

When Idubor and her mother was inside, she sat her son down. “You don’t have sense? You don’t know you were born before Osawe but that witch of a woman had used evil charm to make you not cry until her own son did…you don’t know… you would have been the heir apparent now… but that woman took it all from you…Don’t you think for yourself?”

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