THE THING DEATH TAUGHT ME
Every time we lose a king, we gain an ancestral spirit and for that reason alone we never cry about a king’s death. I learnt the hard way that tears on a great day like this would get you flogged mercilessly. This is the second ascension that I will be witnessing and for the first time in my life I have a reason to celebrate. I was born a slave so I have nothing to lose from defying authority and crying, I’m used to getting flogged and I have only 7 toes left, three on my right foot and four on my left foot. There’s no reason for me to cry today and majority of the slaves in the palace share the same sentiment as me, what I want to do is remove Inoke’s eyes so that he won’t be able to join our ancestors. I need to blind him so that he can miss his way and end up as a lost soul. As a child, all I had was my mother and anytime I misbehaved the punishment was served by her. The day I had complete understanding of this, I became so well behaved and started to blindly follow the ...