Dial - Season 1 - Episode 111

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Dial - Season 1 - Episode 111

It was as if my skin had been sliced open and iced blocks packed into the skin. I couldn’t breathe, and for a moment the sheer cold stopped my breath! In all my life, I had never felt such cold water on my skin.
“Mmm-mmm-mmm!” murmured with chattering breath as I reached frantically for the other bucket she had put outside the bathroom. I poured it into the water I was using to bath.

“Silly arrogant old man!” I heard her call from somewhere out there.
I smiled with humiliation as I continued to bath. Even with the hot water mixed, the water was still cold, but it was like the cold water in the city.

Yes, indeed, the cold water in Etwe-Pe-Kote was not like the cold water I had in the city.
Later on, she put a mat on the floor for me with a sheet of cloth on it, and one hard pillow. She gave me another sheet to cover myself with. As I lay on the floor, breathing shallowly because of the awful scent of the snake-repellent leaves, I saw her slipping on a long, dark robe. She then fell to her knees in front of the bed, clamped her hands together, and began to pray.

I gawked at her and waited until she had finished praying. She turned the wick of the lantern, dimming the light, and then she fell on the bed.
“Goodnight, old man,” she said.
I smiled to myself.
“I’ve never seen a witch praying before,” I said.

“I’m not a witch, Yao,” she said sleepily.
“So why does the whole town and beyond claim you’re one? Will you tell me why?”
“Are you always this talkative?” she asked softly. “I’m tired. There are two pails by the door. The blue one is yours. You can weewee in that if you feel like it. Now please shut up and sleep!”
But I couldn’t sleep.

The scent of those leaves were too awful and disturbing.

A short while later she began to snore gently. She was deeply asleep. I stood up slowly, opened the door and went outside. Grimacing, I picked up all the huge stem on which were the leaves, and threw them into the yard. There were five of them, and I threw them all away.

I went back and fell on the mat. The awful scent was gone, and a moment later I slept soundly.

I came awake in the night when I felt a coldness on my foot. Sitting up groggily, I watched my foot area by the dim light of the lantern.

And there, black, huge and absolutely frightening, was the biggest and longest black snake I had ever seen in my life!
Oh, dear!

The scream that burst out of my lungs could have woken up Lazarus easily without the help of Jesus Christ!
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