Dial - Season 2 - Episode 42

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 42

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For a brief moment we were all still, stunned to the very core of our souls.

This brutal murder had shocked all of us looking on, and it would forever leave a sour taste in our mouths.

Nana b0s0mba nonchalantly selected another apple from his pile and bit into it, and then the white cloth he was sitting on lowered slightly, and turned round so that he was face to face with me, and he stared into my hate-filled eyes.

“You murdered him!” I hissed fiercely, disregarding the tears on my face. “You vile murderer!”
He shook his head sadly at me.
“Mr. Biko, the world is not a nice place,” he said calmly. “You don’t know what that man did. You would’ve been the tenth human he buried alive, and that would’ve elevated him to a higher plane in the spiritual realm. Are you telling me you would’ve been happier if I had not put in an appearance today?”
I glared at him, but he had me.
If he hadn’t come to my aid I would’ve been the one dead in that hole, buried alive to die a slow, painful death.
“You see, you can’t answer,” he said, his voice almost sad. “In this world, we normally reap what we sow, and face the same sword that we brandish in various ways, Mr. Biko. Now, be free, both of you!”

The cords fell from my wrists and ankles, and I bounded to my feet with a half-m0an of relief. Abena Adobea was free too, and she came tearing toward me, her face shattered, tears drenching her.
“Oh, Yao, my love, my dearest love, oh, Yao, Yao, Yao!” she wept as she fell into my arms and grabbed me so fiercely that I could barely breathe. “Oh, I thought I lost you! I thought you were going to die! And I couldn’t take it, I couldn’t take the fact that you would die without knowing how deeply I love you, Yao! You have my heart, oh you have all of my heart, Yao!”
I held her fiercely as my own tears fell.
In the aftermath of the horror, our hearts had finally made that leap of faith, and now they beat in tandem, filled with mutual love and craving.

“Abena, Abena, my love, my sweet love!” I whispered tremulously. “How I love you, Maa Abena, my dearest love! How I love you so!”
She wound her arms around my neck, and even though my face was covered with dirt in thick volumes, she clamped her lips to mine and kissed me fiercely with abandon.
“Stop that nonsense, would you?” Nana b0s0mba’s voice cut through our mad passion. “Show some respect to your elders! And you better cover up your nakedness, Mr. Biko! It is sickening looking at your flat butt0ckz!”
We broke apart with soil in our mouths. I saw my clothes on the ground beside King Obiba, and I walked toward him. He was a mess of a man now, and he watched my approach fearfully.

I stopped just a step away from him, and I glared at him with blazing eyes.
“I forgive you for trying to kill me,” I said softly. “And I forgive you for spitting on me, and for hitting me, Obiba. But I’ll never forgive you for putting a knife to Maa Abena’s throat.”
I sank a fist into his stomach, and he bellowed with pain, doubling over, and I landed a hard left right punch into his mouth. He collapsed on the ground with a broken tooth and shattered lips.
“You ever come near her again and I’ll kill you, do you understand?” I hissed at him nastily.

He lay on the ground, bleeding in the mouth and holding out a trembling hand protectively across his face and nodding furiously. In the end, he was just another coward and a detestable bully.
“I’m sorry, please don’t hurt me,” he whispered miserably.
I put on my clothes quickly, and when I turned I saw Abena Adobea kneeling on the ground in front of Nana b0s0mba and weeping silently.

“I thank you for saving Yao today, Nana,” she said tremulously. “Indeed, I have no regrets that this evil man Basabasa perished. Indeed, he murdered my father and separated me from the love of my mother. Now, I’m covered with shame because of how I treated my own mother!”
Nana b0s0mba nodded once and threw the pith of the apple away.
“Life’s like that, my dear,” he said kindly.
Abena Adobea looked across her shoulder and saw me standing and looking on. She motioned me forward, and when I joined her she patted the ground beside her.

Taking a deep breath, I sank to my knees beside her and in front of the levitated Nana b0s0mba. She reached out and took my hand, gripping it firmly in hers, and imparting some of her warmth and strength to me.
Nana b0s0mba looked beyond us at the whimpering King Obiba.
“Hey, you, get out of here before I do something nasty to you!” he said, still in his overbearingly calm voice.

King Obiba uttered a pitiful groaning sound, and then he stumbled blindly into the forest, where he soon began to bray rather noisily as he fled. Somehow, it seemed to me that he was never going to completely get over what he had seen. It would haunt him forever, like me.

I looked at the four killer dogs still slumbering on the ground under Nana b0s0mba’s command.
“What about the dogs?” I asked in a sickened voice. “Surely, you don’t mean to kill them too, do you?”
Nana b0s0mba looked at me with sad and pained eyes.