Search for the Runaway Girl
Ancient Days
During the dark ages, there was a man called Ashoria living in the town of Shoria. Ashoria’s first child was Crab. After Crab he gave birth to two sons and three daughters. At a juncture in the history of Shoria, there was economic nosedive called seasons of salt dearth. This situation continued for a while resulting in moral decadence. People of Shoria town started practicing what they were not practicing before, they stifled their consciences, same sex relationship was promoted. The erosion and corrosion that pervaded their consciences made them value less other humans. They went and borrow from the ways of life and living of Okrijojo town. A town which was about a week’s journey by camel from Shoria.
Okrijojo town was renowned for notorious and dangerous activities during this time, the chief of which was worshiping deity of Okrijojo called Rijojo.
The people of Okrijojo worship Rijojo deity which they believed was the founder of the world, their protector, defender and the supplier of good things of life to Okrijojo land and people.
Because of famine and economic nosedive, the people of Shoria went and form alliance with the people of Okrijojo. Part of the bilateral agreement that they entered with, with the people of Okrijojo was that they would allow into their land Rijojo deity and people from Okrijojo land, basically the priests from Okrijojo land would be allowed in to teach and instruct them on ways and manners of worshiping Rijojo deity. The chief of their sacrifice was using humans as rituals to Rijojo.
After signing the agreement, things started to happen, as an image of Rijojo deity was made and brought to Shoria land to a place that has been set aside by Shoria people, where the altar of Rijojo was placed.
The fat portions of land within Shoria were set aside for the priests from Okrijojo land to be living on. The leaders of Shoria built for them houses at the chosen places so that they would be living and working together.
At the inception of the priests’ sacrifices, they were seeing changes in their land because the people of Okrijojo also came into the town and they came with their possessions, started trading and doing other businesses with the people and others who came to the land.
This they attributed to Rijojo’s influence on the town for he has swiftly swung into action on the town, the people of Okrijojo who now live in Shoria said to Shoria inhabitants.
The Rijojo priests too were working on the psychology of the people of Shoria as well as using other maneuverings said it is Rijojo at work so that they would be accepted by all and sundry within the town. They started giving people several instructions which they allude to have come from Rijojo the powerful deity itself.
Since the people are noticing changes in inflation rate of the town among other things that it is plummeting, they didn’t view what was happening from other perspectives. Things continue like this for about three years, but the major changes expected were not seen except for those changes noticed during the first three months after the establishment of Rijojo deity in Shoria land.
In addition to using humans as sacrifices to Rijojo deity, same sex marriage was introduced into the town among other things that were not practiced before. Crab became sick of this and he started to think of what could be done.
He Left His Father’s Town
After long and deep thought, he resolved to leave his father’s house and country to go and found his own place, where idols would not be worshipped neither same sex marriage practiced, nor humans offered as sacrifices.
Crab had been married to Krabey in the town of Shoria about six days prior the time he left Shoria land.
Crab and Krabey started going out few days after the movement of Rijojo deity and its priests into the town of Shoria.
When they started noticing what the priests were doing, using people as sacrifices, they cannot but show their distaste to what have been introduced into their land. As from the time that they have been showing their distaste had they had it in mind that they shall leave their father’s land if such dastardly act continues.
Thus, after their wedding, Crab took his wife and other possessions of his and leave his father’s land for a very far place freed from idolatry and other forms of despicable acts.
Months after they left Shoria land, they got to a place and decide to settle there. After settling at the place, they discovered that there is a town close by called Dividua which is about four days journey by camel to the place where they are.
The place where they are settled at is to the west of the town, Dividua. They were peacefully living in the place, but things were not going on well with the family and his possessions, because some of the animals that he brought to the place took ill, the medicines for curing the animals could not heal some of the animals as they died and the crops planted were not doing well.
These worrisome developments brought hardships unto the man’s family, but they kept enduring.
For over a decade that they have gotten to the land, Krabey, Crab’s wife, was yet to take in. Having discovered Dividua, they went to the town to transact business there, through trade by barter at the initial until they started having on them the currencies of the land of Dividua.
When the people they were interacting with discovered that Krabey was yet to put to bed, they introduced them to the idols of fertility of the land which they were worshiping, but they rejected the offer, because it was for that, that they left their father’s land, Shoria, many years back.
People of Dividua start monitoring them to see changes in the life of his wife, but when they did not see changes, they started mocking them, that they were shown the way out, but they refused and rejected the offer, it was for rejecting what they offered them that they started watching them, expecting what their ends would be like.
Later, things go from bad to worse for Crab and his family in the land they wanted to settle down at such that they moved to Dividua to go and be serving a rich man there.
The Dream
At Dividua island, they served the man for years, before returning to where they have found. Three days after returning to the land they discovered, where they want to settle down at, Crab slept and dreamt a dream.
In his dream he saw a very tall person, whose head he cannot see, neither his legs seen, for it seems as if the man’s legs entered the ground like the roots of trees which had entered the soil and was covered by earth crust.
While trying to look at the man’s head he discovered that this man’s head penetrated the firmaments such that his eyes cannot be seen.
However, he could see the torso of the man, some parts of the man’s arm could be seen but the extreme end of the arms which is his hands he couldn’t see as they seem to cover the ends of the earth even into the oceans. As this man moves his arms, winds blew, any slight changes in the movement of the arm results in wind blowing.
While trying to get a glimpse of the face of the man, he discovered that a gentle breeze started blowing and a voice said to him that, “know of a certainty that the land on which you are even up to its 100 miles radius has been given unto you and your posterity forever. Do not worry all shall be well, for I have seen your heart, your desire and your disposition to life and I have come to tell you that as from today, you shall never go borrowing again, neither become a slave to anyone as long as you live on earth.”
The man speaking with him continued as the man wonders in the dream, “however, in case you encounter troubles, sing this song for 20 times and whatever the problems are that you are encountering, they would be resolved”, Crab on hearing this started rubbing his palms together as a sign of thanking the person talking to him, as he was doing this the voice of the man continues, “the song goes thus”, as the man says the song goes thus, Crab heard the sound of some beings that resemble the sound of different birds and animals, and those beings started singing. The song is as follows:
“The righteous will possess/2x
“The righteous will possess this land,
“The righteous, the righteous, the righteous will possess it”
As those beings whose voices resembles that of birds were rendering the song, some instruments were being heard underneath being played by some unseen beings that matched the song which were being sung. Crab does not know how to describe the sound of things he was hearing in his dream. But those things were in accord, melodious with the song being sang.
After those beings finished singing this song their voices couldn’t be heard again, neither the voice of the underground instruments. When everything becomes silent, the man continued speaking to Crab, saying “ensure that you teach your children this song, let them teach their children, and their children should also teach their children, because in the future after you have gone to the way of all the earth, it is a person of your blood that must be singing this song in case the town I have given you and your posterity encounters troubles. I hope this is clear?”, he asked Crab. “Yes, it is very clear sir”, Crab replied nodding his head in the dream.
The Wonder
And then he wakes up from the dream, but he discovers that he was still nodding his head after waking up in response to what the man of unlimited stature has said to him in his dream. As he woke up it seems to him as if what happened happen in reality, he still remembers the song and he started singing the song.
As he was singing this song, he noticed that some puffin birds flew in with things in their mouths. The things on their beaks are fruits of different trees, they differ from one another, he tasted out of them and found out that some are sour while some are sweet, some are tasteless. Alongside with this, he noticed that there was associated climatic changes for that day.
The following day the surface of the earth has been renewed with grass.
Two months after this incident he discovers a fountain of water and his wife who had not taken in before conceived. Seeds that he has planted for years which never germinated, which he has lost hopes on that would germinate started germinating, some trees whose leaves have withered off and dried up, started springing up as their roots smell water, because it was discovered that, there are moistures on the surface of the earth, the surface wasn’t dry as it was before.
Things started changing for the man, for the remaining animals he has were also healthily looking and he was sure that their reproduction would be very good, when they took in that time and that was what happened, for all his animals started giving birth in threes and fours and all their products were very good and healthy.
Those who had been mocking him and his wife for their barrenness because they did not follow their gods of fertility couldn’t mock him again when his wife puts to bed.
Their first child was a male called Crabra, after giving birth to Crabra, she also gave birth to another son called Krabro and two other female children.
Immigration
As the fortune of Crab and his family keeps changing, starting from Krabey that gave birth to children at her old age, both husband and wife being old, and with additional changes in the status of the land they dwell in, which a limitless statured person told Crab that he has given him and his posterity forever, people from Dividua town, the immediate town to them started moving into the town to transact business with the people of the town and later they started settling down in the town, building houses there and establishing themselves there.
As this happened, some people from distant towns who used to come to trade with the people of Dividua town too started trooping into this new town to transact business with the people living in the new town. Things changed for the town rapidly.
The Name of The New Town
Crab couldn’t do without singing this song and he has taught his children the song as being instructed by the limitless one. He told his children how the song came about and that after he and his wife, their mother are gone they are expected to keep singing the song when they are in any kind of trouble so that they would receive divine solution to emerging or the lingering problems they could be facing. He added that they should ensure that they teach their children also so that those ones would also teach their children to ensure continue growth and development of the town.
People who used to go to the town used to call the town the extension of Dividua, because they do not know the name of the town. Some who knew that the town has no relationship with Dividua town started calling the town after the name of Crab, “Crab’s town”, they will say.
This continued for a while until Crab dreamt a dream again and he saw the man he saw before, and the man told him that “my name is Unlimited. The name of the land I have given you should be call Stoppey. Do not call the name after your name as people are calling it now if you want this town to be big and become one of the greatest countries in the world”.
He continued to talk to him that, “to the left side of your first plantations you will see a very tall palm tree, the palm tree is the tallest, go to the place clear the place, and there build a tent for me where you will be worshiping me. What I need for your worshiping me are the products of your farms, fruits, and a one-year old lamb. It must be done at the beginning of every harvest seasons every year with the song I gave you to be sang there while offering the offerings. Do not forget this, if you die, it must be your blood that would carry the torch on, your blood, males or in rare cases females, are those who can sing the song that would bring about deliverance and changes.
“In the future, I know there would be elected leaders in the town like other towns of the world, the elected leaders could offer sacrifices but as for the song, before it would be meaningful, before it would move me on my throne, it must be sung by one of your blood, someone whom your blood flows in his or her veins.
“If you could be doing this, your posterity would be preserved and protected, and no one would be able to push your family to the background in the future when they started choosing for themselves leaders. Through this your name forever would be a memorial, this is the covenant between me and you forever, it can never be broken”.
As he finished speaking the cloud covered the man and he couldn’t be seen again, and the man woke up.
Building Worship Tent
When it was morning, he located the tallest palm tree, he cleared the place and erected tent there and there he started worshiping the Unlimited one. He sacrificed a year-old lamb and fruits were taken to the place.
After sacrificing and worshiping the Unlimited one, he told everyone that the name of the town is Stoppey. The name of the town would be Stoppey because it is when he got to this town that he stops crying, begging, laboring for nothing and he believes that anyone who enters into the town crying, their cries would be wiped off, anyone who enters the town as a pauper before the person leaves the town his or her life would be changed for good. It is a town where Unlimited one would be putting end to people’s sufferings he said.
Crab and Krabey grew old and saw their children and their children’s children even up to the fifth generations.
Five years after Krabey’s death, Crab also gave up the ghost. During their days, they ruled Stoppey town in righteousness and the town exceedingly grow.
Crab before his death has trained warriors and many servants.
Wars
After Crab’s death other towns started waging war against Stoppey, they wanted to enslave them, but the country was well defended by the country’s military and with the assistance of Crab’s heirs who used to go to where they used to offer sacrifices to the Limitless one to sing to him to deliver them.
When they started singing the song given them by the unlimited one, even if Stoppey’s warriors have been losing war before, things would change, and they would overcome those enemies.
There was a specific war waged against Stoppey by five powerful countries whose warriors form alliance to confront them. So many of the warriors of Stoppey have been killed, at the battle front, the heir that ought to go and sing to the Unlimited one at the town’s place of worship had been sick and couldn’t go there.
When the battle was severe and bad on the military of Stoppey, one of the warriors left the battle front to the town and he made a stretcher with wood to carry the heir to the sacred place. He asked for the support of women and children in carrying the sick heir to the consecrated place.
On getting the heir to the place, as the heir started singing the song to the Limitless one, their enemies sights became blurred and they couldn’t fight as they ought. As this heir continues to sing, things started happening at the battle front and they overcame their enemies.
What happened on the path of the heir that was singing the song to the Unlimited one could not be called any other thing apart from a miracle, because it was discovered that as he was singing the song, his sickness started disappearing until he was completely healed of his infirmities at the sacred place of worshiping the Unlimited one.
The enemies wondered of what had befallen them, because the war was about ninety percent won by them, before the heir was taken to the sacred place, but this they did not know, all that they knew was that the tides of things suddenly changed for them at the battle front and they were not getting it right again until they lost the battle to Stoppey warriors.
The Stoppey military started attacking them as if they had been injected by some drugs on the battle fields such that when one of them faces twenty of more soldiers of the enemies at once, the Stoppey soldier would mercilessly slaughter those soldiers before him. This continued until warriors of Stoppey recovered all that have been taken from them and their enemies flee from before them.
It was after the war when they returned home that they heard the story of what the soldier has done leaving the warfront to go and carry the heir to the sacred place to sing unto the Limitless one. As from then the people of Stoppey never belittle the import of Crab’s heirs and for 50 years Stoppey was in peace.
Deceptions
In the meanwhile, during the time of their peace, people from other countries started entering the town and spies entered Stoppey nation without their knowledge. Those spies married from among the indigenes of Stoppey. The people of Stoppey were in oblivion as per those spies and their missions but those spies knew their mission and they never lose focus of their mission for once.
The mission of those spies sent from countries nigh and far to the country of Stoppey is to get the root of their power.
As they continued to interact with the people of Stoppey they discovered that the root of their power is in the Unlimited one, mostly in the heirs of Crab the founder of Stoppey nation for if there is no heir to sing to the limitless one at the sacred place there won’t be progress neither victory over enemies if they arose.
After getting the secrets about how Stoppey continued to maintain their victories over enemies among the comity of nations in that area, they started working on how to get those heirs, but those heirs hardly walk alone, outside this the spies also discovered that killing one of them would not bring about what they planned to achieve because anyone who has in his bloodstream the gene of Crab as long as the person can talk, what the person only needs to do is to sing the song at the worship center and victory would still occur.
Spies Met
Those spies met with other intelligence personnel and discuss their findings among themselves.
After serious deliberations they map out strategies of what they need to do, how they shall go about their plans, how they shall attack the nation.
It was agreed upon that those spies would allow into their homes other warriors who would assist them that day, to lay siege at where the heirs live and overpower every of those heirs and their guards.
Additional warriors from other towns entered Stoppey town under the guise of business and tourism, seeking asylum, among others and started living with them.
For about a month that they had entered the country, positioning at different locations, vantage positions where they would be able to carry out their plans easily, they started mingling with the people of the nation going out and coming in among them with the people not thinking that they have ulterior motives.
The Runaway Lady
Avwar is one of the greatest granddaughters of Crab she was very good in business, give her anything and within a short space of time she would make astounding profits out of that thing. Apart from this she was lively, lovely, accommodating and caring. She was loved by many people.
Avwar has a shelter in the central market place of the town where she used to display her products.
A man used to come to this market place to sell his products, he is from the town on the north side of their country, second town after Dividua. The name of the man’s country is Kamexy, the country shares boundary with Stoppey.
The shelter of this man, Dievta, is close to Avwar’s stall and they used to interact very well.
Not long after knowing each other they became involved with each other. When their love grew to a certain height, Avwar decided to tell her people about Dietva. She told Dietva this, and he had no objection whatsoever because he has told his people about her in his country.
When Avwar told her people about Dietva, they did not show any sign of interest in the person she told them about because they did not sign off on the relationship.
She told Dietva the disposition of her people about him when she told them. Dietva replied her that she should let them give them time that they will come and around soon enough to support their relationship. He was however mistaken as the family members of Avwar did not support the relationship.
After three years of being on a spot on this, with her people hell bent on her leaving the man, but she has been seriously in love with the man, and she doesn’t want to leave him for anything. She called Dietva and they discussed about the presenting issue, that they cannot continue in this position without doing anything about it, and they resolved that their lives are in their hands, they need to do something about it. What they resolved doing was that Avwar should leave her people secretly.
Since Dietva was not living in Stoppey, they agreed that he would be taken some of the most needful properties and belongings of Avwar bit by bit to his place so that when Avwar wanted to leave the place she would leave without dust being raised by anyone.
Dietva started taking Avwar’s belongings one after the other to his place. This has been ongoing for months. After Avwar has seen that all her necessary belongings have been taken by her lover to his place, she left the country of Stoppey.
One day about a week before the enemies attacked the town, Avwar left the country of Stoppey. A day after getting to Kamexy, her spouse’s place, the enemies attacked Stoppey towns. The news of the attack got to them days after Avwar has gotten to her lover’s place.
Nature of The Attack
The spies and emissaries invaded the heirs abode and Crab’s compounds, overpowered the guards and took them hostage. As they were doing this, other warriors started attacking from west, east, north and south destroying properties and killing people of the country. Other assigned spies went to the sacred place of the country and destroyed the place.
When the people of Stoppey saw that their warriors have been overtaken, they surrendered to their enemies and were taken captives to other lands.
They were under bondage for centuries with special attention being paid to those heirs, no free movements for any of them while many of them lost their lives when their country was attacked.
They Left Kamexy
Weeks after Stoppey has been plundered by the enemies and people of Kamexy got to know that the enemies who attacked Stoppey were particularly after the heirs of Crab, they told Dietva to leave the town, because soon enough those enemies would get to know that one of the heirs of Crab resides in their country which is his wife, Avwar.
If the enemies get to know this and they waged war against their country they would overcome them, apart from that when the people of Kamexy know that it is his wife the enemies are after, they would have no option other than handing over his wife to the enemies but to avoid that, he should leave their country for a far place with his wife, he was counseled.
He asked to be given time to prepare to move out of their country and the people gave him time to pack some of the needful things for his journey and he left his country, Kamexy, with his wife, Avwar.
After days of traveling, they got to Osojueh town, where they decided to settle down at.
Avwar gave birth to a baby boy three months after getting to Osojueh town and they named the child Gbehiz.
Five years into their marriage, Dietva died. He was buried at Osojueh town in their burying place which Avwar bought.
After Avwar finished mourning her husband, she decided not to remarry again as she started paying attention to her son, raising him up.
The son, Gbehiz grew and became one of the strongest business persons in Osojueh town. Gbehiz got married to one of the beautiful ladies in the town of Osojueh.
Terrible Thing
When the heirs of Crab were in the land of captivity, another king arose after the dead of the king who led other nations to war against Stoppey nation. This king, King Papanleke, was terrible and fierce and he ordered that all heirs of Crab be annihilated including their children because he does not want the country Stoppey to rise again, he does not want the name to be heard again forever. And retaining crab’s heirs shows the possibility of them still emerging in the future. He wants to make Stoppey the extension of his kingdom.
A decade after killing those heirs and all the known people who have the gene of Crab running through his or her systems, he set some of the people of Stoppey free to return to their country and be working for him. He made Stoppey an extension of his country, with supervisor appointed over the country.
When those people got to Stoppey, things became difficult for them, because the source of the blessing of the nation could neither be perfectly worshiped nor sang to.
Childlessness, drought, poverty, epidemics of infectious diseases among other things became the order of the day in Stoppey country. They tried all they could, but things did not change for them.
At this time, Avwar was 87 years old and her son, Gbehiz was 67 years old.
Some of the returnees remembered what their parents told them, but they do not belong to the clan of Crab, the founder of Stoppey nation. Apart from this, the site where their parents said there used to be a sacred place to worship the unlimited one, had been destroyed and none of the youths returned to the country knew the place.
People were coming forth with different kinds of songs related to the ones their parents have taught them when they were in the land of captivity because they were not so sure of the song again.
The Search
One of the returnees dreamt and in the dream he saw a man in white robes appearing unto him in the dream and the person told him that to be freed from the problems they were encountering in their country and to be freed from their enemies, they need to go to Kamexy and ask for the heir of Crab there.
When this young man, Cercho, woke up, he told some of his friends what he dreamt about. They met secretly, after several deliberations, they agreed to send people to Kamexy land and ask for the Crab’s heir that is still residing in the nation. “It means the Unlimited one has reserved one of the heirs for himself, having known what would befall them”, one of them said.
Cercho and two others, Cerchy and Cerque, left for Kamexy and on the ninth day, they got to the land. They have never been to the land before as such they couldn’t say the land has changed or not.
On entering the town, they asked from an old man who was on his way to the farm with his son, that they were looking for the heir of Crab that has been kept in the country.
The man was afraid, not wanting to answer them, but after swearing to him that nothing would happen to his life, the man told him all he knew about the heir and that they had sent them away from their country many years back because of the fear of King Papanle who is that father of King Papanleke who is now on the throne.
They asked the man to tell them where they headed for after leaving the town, but the man did not know, except that he is sure that he did not go for the way of Dividua nation.
They thanked the man and left him, heading for another route apart the one they took to the country, hoping that they would be lucky.
Arrived Osojueh Town
The first town they got to, they asked the people they meet of Dietva, because the man they met while entering Kamexy, Kasunty, happened to be cousin to Dietva, he was the one who told them that they asked his cousin to leave the town when they heard that King Papanle was interested in the heirs of Crab which his wife was one, he may soon heard that his cousin was married to her and come and wage war against the town and plundered the town, but since they do not want that to happen, they asked his cousin to leave the town which he did.
Kasunty was the one who told Cercho and two others searching for the heir of Crab that his cousin’s name is Dietva, but that they did not know where he fled to with the woman, and neither sought for them ever since they left for the fear of King Papanle.
When Cercho and others met people, they keep asking for Dietva and Avwar, describing them to them. But all the people they met at various towns said they did not know anyone with those names neither with those descriptions. They would make them swear to be double sure that they were telling the truth before leaving them.
That was how they continued to do in all the countries and nations they got to while searching for the heir, married to Dietva.
The two people accompanying Cercho got tired of the search because it had been ages since such people left Kamexy country and they may have died, they reasoned.
Cercho however, prayed them to exercise patience for the sake of their country and their lives, after all this is what their success is hinged on, if they would return to their country now, without finding the heir, they would return into their suffering, they would keep circling and circling at a point, wallowing in troubles, anguish and misery, but if they could endure till they get a clue to the person they were looking for, that would be happy, even if the person is dead, she may have given birth to a son or another heir, in the blood of whom Crab would still be flowing, and such a one would be able to come to their aid and deliverance, Cercho told them.
Assuming the heir is dead, how would the children be of any help to them, those people reasoned with Cercho, because it is the person who knows the sacred site and the song that could be of help to them in this position, they reasoned again. They said assuming we get the heirs children, how would they know the sacred site?
When they said, this Cercho too becomes confused because none of them knows the sacred place, assuming the heir even taught her children the song they could sing to the unlimited one, how would they know the right place where the song could be offered to the unlimited one before he comes to their rescue? Cercho couldn’t push them as he has been pushing them to hang on and keep searching for the heir with what his friends have raised. What he did was to only implore them to try more and hope that they would still find the heir alive.
The people they asked at Iwajuh town replied them with the same reply they have been hearing from people from other towns, and they asked to know if other towns are nigh by, and they were told that the next town is about 5 days journey from where they were by camel and 10 days journey by leg, the name of the town is Osojueh town.
Cercho, Cerchy and Cerque decided to try the place before turning back.
Having been traveling for long by leg, they didn’t get to Osojueh town until the night of the twelfth day.
When they got to the town they asked from the people there, but the people being asked from do not know the people like that, but they told them to walk a bit into the middle of the town because some people migrated from Dividua town many decades back, and those people have become integrated into the town, those people may know the person they are talking about.
Cercho and his friends were happy hearing this, and they walked to where they described for them, on getting to the place, they found Avwar and her son, Gbehiz and his wife and children at the place described for them.
Mien Changed
Avwar having grown old, the description they were given of her by Kasunty have changed as such they couldn’t recognize her. Apart from that, they were also seeking for an old man to be beside an old woman but the man they found beside the old woman wasn’t as old as the woman with another woman and the children of about their age and some younger.
They approached Avwar and her son, and they were warmly received. After receiving them, they told them what their mission was, that they were looking for someone called Dietva who is an indigene of Kamexy town, and they were told that they moved to this town, or towns nearby some five or more decades ago, and they have been told by people they met on entering the town that if there is anyone who could know such people the people living in the house, which are Avwar and her son should be the one because they are from such area, from Dividua town, they told them.
Dietva and Avwar when they got to the town did not tell the people of the town their original town, they told them that they were from Dividua town, not to raise suspicion and to avoid being investigated into with their secrets being uncovered and they be sent out of Osojueh town again for the fear of King Papanle, who was the most powerful ruler in the world then.
Madam Avwar replied them that though they come into Osojueh town from Dividua town being the indigenes of the town, but they did not know the person they were seeking for and have not seen such likeness, no, not ever.
When Cercho and his friends heard this, they were down casted, all hopes are now lost, he couldn’t advice his friends that they keep searching, he has succumbed to their lines of thought, and have concluded among themselves that it is from there they would return to their country, if the unlimited one really wants them delivered from their enemies now he will have to do something better, Cercho thinks within himself.
As he was thinking, Madam Avwar interrupted his thought, asked him, what their problem was necessitating them searching for the heir that they were searching for. She was acting in ignorance as if she did not know anything about Stoppey country.
The people answering explained everything to her, how they have been set free by the son of King Papanle, King Papanleke. Their fathers and forefathers have been carried into slavery land for many years, they were given birth to in the slavery land, and King Papanleke has ordered the slaughter of anyone with the genes of Crab in his systems and after he succeeded in doing this, that was when he set some of them free to go back to their land to become slaves in their land, serving King Papanleke.
They would have joyously continued in this position, but they discover that calamities were falling on calamities since they returned to the land with no progress at all, yet King Papanleke wants them to be as productive as ever. They were trying their best, but their best isn’t enough.
As if this isn’t enough, they were also experiencing sicknesses upon sicknesses, terrible ones. They tried to find a way around this but there is no way. Then they remembered what their parents used to tell them in the land of captivity that if they could get Crab’s heir either a male or female, someone in whom the gene of Crab could be found there would be solution to their problems.
Since all the heirs have been killed, they have left hope about this and continued to hope for the best until Cercho dreamt a dream and in his dream a white appareled man appeared to him and told him to go to Kamexy to ask for Crab’s heir there.
They were a bit confused when Cercho narrated the dream to the people, because they haven’t heard that Crab has heir in other nations neither did he migrated to where he settled down at with his wife from Kamexy. They had serious deliberations on this until the people resolved that they should give what was revealed in the dream a trial. That was when they appoint Cercho and two others to go for the search.
When they got to Kamexy, they were fortunate to meet a man who claimed to be a cousin to the man who married Crab’s heir, history which they never heard before and which they believed wasn’t open unto their fathers in the land of captivity for they would have mentioned it to them to go in search of the man who married the heir. So, when the man told them this they were surprised and believed the dream to be true. The man continued in his speech to them by telling them the reasons behind his cousin and his wife, the heir, in leaving Kamexy town. He told them that they should keep searching, other countries far away that they shall likely get them.
That was how they started walking through towns and countries and anywhere they get to they will make the people swore that they didn’t know someone fitting into the description given them by Kasunty. It has been 100 days they have been searching different towns with no success.
The Revelation
After listening to their words, the old woman told them that, they should rest, by tomorrow they would find answers to their problems. They were accommodated and well taken care of for the night.
When they heard what the woman said, they were happy, and knew that they had come to the end of their trip and their journey is a fruitful one.
The following day, the old woman told them that she was the one they are looking for and that his husband died many years back, before he died, she gave birth to Gbehiz, who is the man they are seeing and his wife and children.
Having been told by their fore parents that they should always teach their children the song, she has taught her son the song and has also taught her grandchildren the song too. They all could sing the song.
She told them that she has been envisaging that something like this would happen because the war was terrible one, she knows somehow, she would be reconnected with her people, but she was thinking when they were freed, they would come looking for her, but unknown to her that all have been killed. She wiped tear droplets off her eyes on saying this.
However, I have told my son, that in case I give up the ghost, if he goes back to Kamexy, he should endeavor to get to my country and I have told him how to locate the sacred place, if he locates the place, other heirs would be linked up with him. I have also been passing this on to his children too, because I know I have limited time, but unknown that I would be located and that I would be the one who will go back to the country.
Cercho and his friends were happy hearing all that the old woman said. They embraced one another and revealed their identities to one another.
Journey Back To Stoppey
Having identified the person, the following day, they arose to go back to Stoppey. The old woman and his son, and those three men left for Stoppey. They spent 26 days on the road before getting back to Stoppey because Avwar has camels.
When they got back to the town, they hide the woman’s identity because of the supervisor lest he hears and ordered the woman to be killed and her son, Gbehiz.
Locating The Sacred Place
The palm tree that is being used as landmark has been destroyed and all things that they could use in identifying the place have been turned to ground. Madam Avwar however remembers that when they used to go to the place, they will set up early and walk until sun is at the top of their heads. When the sun is at the top of their heads, when they raised their eyes up, they would see the palm tree to the left and directly opposite the palm tree is the location of the sacred place.
She asked the people to let him locate her family’s compound, and this have been discovered by the returnees because the supervisor and other appointees by the King had showed them where the Crab’s family house used to be before the country was overtaken.
They took madam Avwar to the place, and she asked that she sleeps at a nearby house for easy take off the following morning.
The following day, she arose early with others, and they started walking to the place, when the sun was at the top of their heads she told them that they are close to the place, and asked them to fan out into the nearby bushes and started looking for any remnants of palm trees, palm trees couldn’t be totally destroyed, they would still find parts of their roots in the soil.
They fanned out and started looking for it, not long they found one that was located separately from others, and to their left. When they got this, she was invited to the place and she said this should be the one that they should walk directly to the opposite of where she is and started looking for some rocks gathered together, if they could find such opposite where she is standing that is the sacred place.
On the immediate the people fanned out again and within short frame of time they discovered the rocks piled up at a place, with some scattered. She was invited to the place, she asked them to check if they could find something like this within 50 meters radius, but nothing like that could be found, and she concluded that, the place they were standing on was their once sacred place.
The Song, The Deliverance
After locating the place, she started to sing the song, and things started to happen, she herself who has been weak for the stress of the journey discovered that she has new strength within her.
By the time she finished the song, the supervisor told the people that he wants to make a quick errand, he wants to go and see King Papanleke that he was having feelings that something terrible was going on in his country.
By the time he gets to his country he discovered that King Papanleke has been murdered by one of his slaves about the time he was leaving Stoppey country. The slave who murdered him though were arrested and killed immediately.
King Papanleke son, Papanlele was crowned as king the following day. And the first thing that King Papanlele did was setting free the people of Stoppey both young and old, but anyone who wishes to stay back in the country of Papa which he, King Papanlele rules and governs could stay back, they are free he said.
People Returned En-masse
The people of Stoppey who have lost hope of being freed could not believe what they heard they did not know what happened but were however glad that they have been freed by the new King.
They started gathering themselves together, and about 200,000 people left the country of Papa the same town for Stoppey land.
When they got to Stoppey that was when they knew what happened, and they were thankful to the Unlimited one for not abandoning them…
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