Dial - Season 2 - Episode 64

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 64

It depicted the man who had come to me and cursed me. He was sitting, and Akos, who looked very young and viviacious, was sitting on the man’s laps and laughing beautifully.
“Yes, yes!” I croaked, pointing at the picture. “That’s the man, Nana b0s0mba, who put a curse on me and said Akos was his only daughter!”

“Abojobojobojo!” Nana b0s0mba said, his eyes going wide with fear. “Oh, sir! I’m so sorry! That man is not Nana b0s0mba. I am Nana b0s0mba, Akos’ real father. That man…we call him The Holy Man. He lives in the mountains of Wowo. He’s a very powerful man of God!

Abojobojobojo! You see, a long time ago, Akos was very sick! The doctors said she had cancer, and would die. I couldn’t cure her too. She was just eight years old. We took her to the mountains, to the Holy Man, and Akos was with him for many years. She got well, but she would not come back to us. She liked to stay with the Holy Man. Eventually she came back and went to school, but the Holy Man always called her his daughter!”
I stared at him with a gaping mouth.
“So, this man, this Holy Man, he has a sister?” I asked hollowly.
“Yes, yes, but she’s called Mansa, not Dede!” Nana b0s0mba said hurriedly with a worried look on his face. “Heeeey! Forgive me! Abojobojobojo! I didn’t know you you’ve met the Holy Man!”
“So you know where he lives?” I asked softly.

“Oh, yes, yes, he stays in the mountains,” he said miserably.
“And what’s his name, his real name, I mean?” I asked.

“Ah, we don’t know o, sir!” he said in an unsteady voice. “He’s been in the mountains for a long time! We know him as the Holy Man. Yes, he can do all that you said he did, and many more! Look, get up now! I’ll let someone send you to his door!”
Even as relief flooded me at having escaped a most painful and humiliating death, I was still filled with thousands of unanswered questions.

“Akos, please, where was she buried?” I asked quietly.