Dial - Season 1 - Episode 32

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 32

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Vida rushed into the bedroom and put on the lights!

She was not holding the glass of water she had gone out to bring for me.

I saw that she was white with great fear, and her eyes were bulging out of her face!
She was shaking violently, and her lips were trembling so hard that her teeth chattered.
“Vida?” I said with alarm as I began to get off the bed!

She took a look at the bed, and suddenly she pointed at the bed, and then she collapsed in a faint on the soft wool carpet.
And that was when I saw it!


The white bed-sheets on the bed were smeared with red oil, or palm nut soup!
I looked at my hands, and I went absolutely cold inside!


On my hands were the caked remnants of the food I had eaten from the white clay pot!
For one terrible moment I could not move a muscle!

And then with a little cry I bounced off the bed and stood shivering in one corner, staring at the stained bed-sheets with horror!
And then I realized that Vida had come into the bedroom already freaked out!
Something she had seen outside had terrified her!



I walked to the door dazedly, ignoring her, my heart thudding so loudly that I knew a small prod would make me scream.

I walked to the living-room where she had put on all the lights, and I looked around expecting to see Nana b0s0mba.
He was not in sight though.

I breathed easier, and then just as I was turning away my eyes darted to the dining-room area, and then I froze with terror!
The two white pots we had eaten from were on the dining-table!

My legs were trembling as I forced myself to approach the dining-table!

I saw the red-oil finger marks on the napkin, the one Nana b0s0mba had used to wipe his hand!

And I saw the white envelope Nana b0s0mba had put on the table, and spilling from it were the chain and the ring.

It hadn’t been a dream or a nightmare…
It was fulfillment of a promise: he had promised to see me tonight…and he had!
He had been here!

I had eaten his food…

And that was when I knew, irrevocably, that I was in very serious and dangerous trouble!
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