Feeling of Emptiness, Least of Her Worries
Salabu was a tailor apprentice in the town of Learners some years back. Few months to the time he would gain his freedom from his master, a lady, Satabi and her mother migrated to Learners town, and they started living close to where Salabu was an apprentice. Satabi was hawking fruits for her mother. Whenever she was going out, Salabu would make sure he buys something from her. While buying things from her, he would be playing with her, and would be calling her his wife. Satabi too, would snapping her middle finger and thumb across her head that she cannot marry him.
This continued for weeks, until one day when Salabu ensures that he gets an audience with Satabi when his master was not around, and as if everything has been planned, no one was around that day to interfere with them. This was the day, Salabu made his intention known to her officially, telling her that he was not playing with what he has been saying to her all this while that he meant business if she can agree to marry him, he would enjoy, because he will soon graduate from his apprenticeship and would go and start his own business fashion designing center.
Satabi told him that she has heard what he said, and she will give it a due consideration and would carry her mother along in this because they know no one in the town of Learners.
Satabi agrees to marry Salabu, and as from then they started planning for the freedom of Salabu from his master.
After Salabu’s freedom, he got for himself a place where he would start his own enterprise. Two years after this, Salabu and Satabi got married.
The new family was blessed with a female baby who was christened Fari. They were glad that God answered them. However, tragic thing happened 6 months after they have given birth to Fari. What happened was when Salabu was on his way to go and deliver some of the clothes he has sown to his customer he was hit by a vehicle who killed him on the spot. When the driver saw that there is no one nigh by neither movement from the person he has hit, he entered his vehicle and fled.
The person who saw Salabu’s corpse on the road was afraid to carry the corpse but went to the police station to report the incident. Police went to the scene, took the corpse of Salabu to morgue and put out notice of his death on some of the social media in the town.
Mrs. Satabi was not aware of this information because there was no electricity at home that day. The people who heard the news, went to the morgue to confirm the person who it is. One of those who went to the morgue confirmed the man to be Mr. Salabu and went to his people to tell them what happened. Mr. Salabu’s people went to his wife, asked her that she needs to come with them because they have something important to do at their family and because of the urgency of what they wanted to do, her husband has moved to the place, he couldn’t tell her before going there as such he sent them to bring her to the place.
Mrs. Satabi asked them whey he couldn’t phone her, they told her that he called but the network was jamming, after several trial but no success, that is why they have been sent to her, because they have come to the area to get some things for the program. She agreed to them, took her daughter and strapped her to her back as they left for her husband’s family’s compound.
She was not aware of what was going on, because those people presented the words very well to her to avoid her developing psychological shock.
When she got to her husband’s family’s place, she couldn’t find her husband, but could see people coming to greet her. She asked for her husband, but she was told that she has been sent on an errand with others to the neighboring town to go and deliver messages to some people there.
She asked if she could return to her house, but the return was turned down, that she needs to stay with them. She agreed and stayed with them. The following day when she couldn’t find her husband, she started becoming suspicious that something terrible has happened to her husband.
They still allay her fears that there is nothing, that everything is fine, but it is just that the trip takes the people longer time than necessary.
By the end of the week, it was obvious to her that something terrible has happened and he pleaded with them that they should be sincere with her, that was when they told her what happened.
She initially did not react to the news, but minutes later she started reacting to the news. And people started consoling her. The following week the man was buried.
After his burial, the family was taken care of the wife for a year, but after 12 months, they were not forthcoming as before to her again.
She left the place she was living to rent another house, because her mother did not come back to Learners town after they had finished Satabi’s wedding in the village. She said, she cannot withstand the hustles and bustles of the town since her daughter has gone to her husband’s place. Assuming her mother has not returned to the village Satabi would have returned to be living with her, but since she has returned, she left the place to get apartment for herself.
Nine years after this, the feel of emptiness overtake Mrs. Satabi and she started searching for another man to fill the empty vacuum in her life. It was unfortunate that Mrs. Satabi couldn’t readily get someone to fill the vacuum in her life because many adult males in the town of Learners do not want to be married to single parent woman.
In her effort to get another man, she was introduced to several men, married and unmarried. She started trying them, as tongue tries food, tasting this today, drop him, tasting another one tomorrow and drop him. However, at the end she was introduced to a man by one of her friends, the man she was introduced to was not living in Learners town, her friend told her that the man is very good and would take care of her and her daughter.
Her friend, Mrs. Ikaty, phoned the man when Mrs. Satabi was with her, the man asked Mrs. Ikaty to give the woman the phone so that he would talk to her. After they talked extensively that day, Mrs. Satabi got to know the name of the man, and his name is Mr. Babawo. He asked her to collect his phone number from Mrs. Ikaty that as from thenceforth he would be talking to her directly.
This man told Mrs. Satabi, that he would be calling her at night, around 21:00 hours because he is a busy man, but at that time he would be having time for her.
As they started talking the man started telling her that he will be introducing her to some things through the phone and as she starts to do those things, she will be enjoying herself, she will be feeling him, she will be enjoying sex where she is.
Because she dire needs a man, she complied and the following day, the man phoned in the afternoon and told her to go and get another phone, making two phones, because he will be using the second phone for what he would be telling her.
She got another phone before the time he would call and when he called, he told her that she has to insert the phone into her private part as he continues to recite some incantations on the phone. While he was reciting this incantation, Mrs. Satabi said she felt strange air blowing into her room, and her windows were vigorously shaken, with some of the things she placed on the table fallen off.
The first day passed and the man warned her strictly not to tell anyone for if she tells anyone about this she would die, not even Mrs. Ikaty who connected them together should know about this.
She agreed to this, and that was how the man started calling her at midnight, reciting incantations, with her also inserting things into her vagina, and as it happened during the first day, strange air would be blowing with objects not properly placed fallen off and sometimes being broken and destroyed.
About three weeks after this, everyone started noticing changes in physical appearance of Mrs. Satabi, she is losing weight.
People asked her to know if she is sick, but she told them that she is not sick, and they replied that she is losing weight, that has she not noticed it? She lied that she has not noticed it. That is how Mrs. Satabi continued to suffer in silence.
She continued to lose weight until she fainted one day, and she was rushed to the hospital before she could be revived. After she was revived, she told the doctors all she has been passing through, what the doctors could diagonise for her is wasting disease.
Mr. Babawo couldn’t be reached again, even when Mrs. Ikaty who connected them was contacted, she also said, for the past one week she has been trying the man, but her number couldn’t be reached.
Drugs were prescribed for this woman, she started using those drugs, but her health status has not improved. The doctors told her that it would take a while before her health status changed.
The woman was told by people after they have heard her history that the man has connected her spirit to the demonic world, and she would need more than physical drugs to get herself back. This woman now starts running to different spiritual houses, to regain her health back.
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