Dial - Season 2 - Episode 68

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 68

And so, with great difficulty, I struggled to my feet without a second’s hesitation, and then I walked double like the old man I was into that nauseating, disgusting patch of soggy and muddy land.

The stench was awful, and a few minutes inside I threw up severely, but I didn’t stop. They were standing behind me, a bunch of men and women holding lanterns and torches and looking on.

I remembered Akos…so sweet, so innocent, so beautiful! Oh, how she had been so happy believing in the love she thought existed between us. I remembered her messages, filled with pain and heartache! And I could have done something about it to avert her death, but I hadn’t, and now look at where her final resting place was!
Oh, Akos!

I shed tears for her as I trudged on. My heart hammered, and soon I couldn’t walk anymore. I fell to my hands and knees in that nauseating muddy sludge, and crawled slowly and painfully forward until I got to that green tombstone, and then I fell on it.

The tears choked me as I spoke.
“Oh, Akos, I’m here!” I said with great pain, unable to contain my sorrow. “Forgive me, Akos, my dear! I hurt you so badly because I was a fool who didn’t know what compassion was, and didn’t see the evil of my ways. Oh, Akos, I do now, and though I could not say it to your face, I beg of you to forgive me now! I don’t believe in ghosts, Akos, but in a way I’m certain you can hear this! My dearest, I beg you! I beg you! Akos, Akos, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me!”
I bowed my head and wept bitterly and deeply, the pain blasting through my heart in unrelentless agony!

I didn’t know just how long I cried with genuine remorse, my tears falling on that drab grave, but suddenly I heard wild screams, and looked behind me. The group of people were screaming wildly and pointing, and when I turned my head and looked up I gasped with sudden shock!

The green headstone had broken off, and in its place was a fresh, long, beautiful green olive tree!

But beyond that, I saw something else…
Something white and spectral, hazy…a sort of whiteness, taking shape faintly.

And then the picture was a bit clear, and I saw that it was that man, that strange man who had lied to me and introduced himself as Nana b0s0mba, but who was known around this place as The Holy Man. I saw too, that standing by his side was a shimmering indistinct figure of…

Akos!