Dial - Season 2 - Episode 72

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Dial - Season 2 - Episode 72

We went through some forests. They offered to carry me, but I told them I was feeling fine, which indeed I was.

Eventually, just as the daylight was streaming through the trees, we came to a little stream running through the forest floor.
“This is where we part ways, Mr. Biko,” Nana b0s0mba said and pointed to a path running parallel to the stream. “No one enters the Holy Man’s abode uninvited. Please, follow that path, and it will take you to his place in the mountains.”
“Thank you very much, Nana b0s0mba!” I said gratefully. “Once again, do forgive me.”
He smiled sadly.

“Death is eventual, Mr. Biko,” he said quietly. “I am also grateful, for the honour you’ve brought my daughter. Farewell, till we meet again.”
I nodded, crossed the stream, and took the path.

It was an uphill walk, and I walked slowly. My heart didn’t give out, though. It seemed, surprisingly, that the higher I went the stronger I got. At a point I almost felt like running, but I resisted it.

Presently, after about an hour of following the winding path through the forest, I eventually came out of the forest and found myself in a wide expanse of lush green grass and beautiful vegetation, like an exotic garden.

The path went through this garden.
I was quite tired now, but I was absolutely enthralled by this beautiful spectacle spread out before me. I walked through that exotic garden, a young man trapped in the body of an old man, and I thought of Abena Adobea, and it hit me suddenly that I could not live without her, and even if I died here, there was peace in my heart, and I just wanted to spend the rest of my life with that angel of a girl.

Taking a deep breath, I stopped to watch a peacock displaying her pride with bated breath! I had never seen anything so wonderful, so beautiful.

Suddenly, I turned a corner of the garden, and found myself confronted by three lions with their huge heads and golden manes. My heart skipped a beat and I looked around me with terror.

“Awurade mawu!” I whispered hoarsely and remained absolutely still. I was too tired to move, and too scared to react because this was nothing I had expected to see.

They stared at me with cold eyes, and then a young antelope suddenly trotted toward them and butted one playfully on his side, and the lion raised a lazy paw at the antelope. One of the lions moved toward me, and then it nuzzled my right hand, licked it, and moved away with disinterest.