Lost In The Jungle - S01 E09

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Lost In The Jungle - S01 E09

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 9

Other guards waited for the return of the headcutter, soon their waiting grew longer and they became impatience. They couldn’t tell why it took him so long to take a head off.

‘Why is this man not around yet? What’s keeping him this long?’ Ase, the head of the guards voiced.

‘I wonder. Ordinary to cut head, he is taking everlasting. Foolish man’ another guard said.

‘If the stranger were female, I would have concluded that he is having a nice time with her but he isn’t gay, is he?’ the third guard whispered.

‘Wait… What did you mean when you said ‘nice time’? Does he commit that great sin?’ Ase asked in consternation.

‘So you really don’t know? Do you remember Annabel?’

‘Yes… Yes, the lady that slapped prince Ugeli when he wanted to go down with her’

‘Exactly! The day the king ordered for her death, he raped the lady before he killed her’ the third guard explained.

‘Ah! I can’t believe this!’ Ase said in awe, ‘but it’s really getting too long, let’s check on him’

They started walking towards the shrine where the head-cutter was to cut my head. They met the man unconscious body on the floor,

blood o@zing from his head. One of them quickly ran to the palace to inform the king what had happened and he gave order to his guards to find us and bring us back to him. Ugeli joined the search.

Lovina and I kept running towards Ngel junction which is the exit of Ngel Nyaki forest. No spirit from the forest can cross the river, only mortals can. Journey to the river would take us three days and we’ve barely ran for a day. We got tired and rested under a tree since night had fallen. Lovina was fast asleep, her head on my shoulder when I heard footsteps. I woke her up and we resumed the run. The ran to a junction which has seven paths, we were confused on which path to follow.

The necklace on my neck suddenly shone towards the fifth path which we followed quickly. The guards didn’t stop pursuing us, they were determined to get us. When they got to the junction, they splited up and took different paths. Aweli and Ugeli with three other guards took the path we followed – the fifth. Lovina was getting weak but tried to pull on.

‘I’m weak’ she said and stopped, resting her weight on me.

‘Lovina. I know but please stay strong and let’s get out of her’ I replied, supporting her with my hand.

‘But I’m losing breathe, I might faint’

‘O, Jesus… Not now Lovina’

The footsteps were getting louder and we started hear people talking, I was sure I heard Aweli’s voice. Lovina couldn’t move again and they were very near us. What to do? I helped Lovina to the top of a tree and the leaves were enough to cover us.

We watched from the top of the tree as Aweli, Ugeli and three other guards ran past us. They had not moved too far when a branch broke.

The probably heard the sound and ran to the tree beside us whose branch just broke. Ugeli raised his local lamp to the tree and the squirrels which were in it jumped off. Lovina suddenly gasped and almost shouted when the light from the torch moved past the tree we hid but I was quick to cover her mouth with my hand and watched them continue their search for us.

‘That was close’ I said and used my index finger to hit her nose softly.

‘I was scared, sorry about that’ she apologized and smiled.

We sat in the tree smiling at eachother when suddenly our head started moving closer. Our lips was about to meet when we were stratled by the sound of running squirrels on the dry leaves. She adjusted and looked away at the sqirrels who just ruined what would have been a happy moment while I cursed the small creatures.