Olamma - Season 1 - Episode 19

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Olamma - Season 1 - Episode 19

She was too big that one of her hand was fat as an iroko tree. Her head was big in size and was too heavy for her to even carry. Her legs were like a dry log. Strong yet filled with fat flesh.

She doubled up the two wrapper her mother gave her which couldn’t go round her. She has to use leave to cover the rest of her body.
She was awaiting her death because she looks disgusted and like an ugly giant with her hefty body.

She can’t even live among the humans, they will cast her off because she was already looking like a strange beast with all that they have being feeding her just for her to quickly grow big in size.

As they jubilate, Olamma sat watching. She couldn’t even cry because she was tired of life and there was no more tears coming from her eyes.

For the past weeks and months that she has being in the cave tears was her daily food until she accepted her fate and embraced death anytime it comes even though she wished it will come sooner.

She lay on her big log that night, she can’t differentiate day from night in the cave.
some animals do not sleep.

The night was like their day. She couldn’t sleep either, because she knows the following day was the day of her death.

She thought of her village, her father mother, she thought of Adugo. Her only sister who loved her more but she took it all for granted. She thought of her friends. Those who were close like Oby and those who she offended like Nneka.

She breathed deeply and knew by tomorrow she will be only bones after the animals’ feeds on her.

When she came she has seen human skull and bones and knew that was one of their victim that they feed to a perfect size and then feast on the person.
Olamma was afraid but there was nothing she can do. She cannot even run with her heavy body or walk well. She was too big like one of those houses in her village. The cave was like underground, there was no obvious entrance or exit.
She lay thinking over her life.

suddenly, something or someone tapped her. She gradually turned to see who could be that. There was always a little ray of light coming in from somewhere she can’t figure out.

But saw no one. She tried to sit up and the tap came again but she couldn’t see the hand or the thing tapping her.
A hand waved three times on her face, covered her mouth and eyes and released her.

When she opened her eyes she could see that it was a man, a human being like her. He looks like a hunter or a farmer but he was a man.

The man put a finger across his mouth, telling her not to make any sound.