Arrogance of Destiny Ep.16 By XBX

ARROGANCE OF DESTINY

EPISODE 16
PALACE OF ARHUAN, UDO PROVINCE.
C. 1538

When he arrived home, it was dawning. He knew at once all was not right; the silence alone is too dead for all to be alright.

He dropped his dead son. All was lost, he watched as his men lost their breath to the tip of spears. Their warmth snatched by firearms. One thousand Bini soldier to one of his.
His remaining spirit was tired.

He had told his wife to throw all their things into Odighi lake and escape to her mother’s birth-place, if words get to her that they lost the battle. The fate of children and women are very ugly in the face of enemies after winning the war. The palace of the vanquished was worst. He knew this.

He walked into the courtyard to get a hoe for a grave-hole.

“My lord oo… my lord.” Adesuwa, one of his wife’s maidservant, slapped herself to the ground in front of him.

“What happen?”

“My lord, Agbonkai had brought words that you were dead, my lord.. and the soldier were a handful remaining… my lord. The queen had gone to drown herself in Odighi lake with all our beads and clothes…my lord..Imade and Esohe had gone to die too, I was suppose to go with them but the queen asked me to go to my parents, since I’m the only one with those... But my lord I have serve my queen since I was a little girl, I don’t see my life without her, I don’t see any better happiness before it.”

Arhuan, didn’t care to say a word, he ran out of the compound once.

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