Chapter 8 Desmond's illness and death

Granny replies to her son's question.

Few months after Elizabeth's death, Desmond couldn't walk,eat or even stand but he could talk. He weeps every day and night. His friends and family abandoned him. Desmond illness was so desperate. He deficates on the sofa where he lays and I do the cleaning. His left leg began to swell and it had a deep holes on it. The holes were so deep that one could see the bones. I wondered what could have caused the deep holes because he hadn't been going out for the past few months,I could have said he got injured. Then Desmond explained that the charm he used on me had it's consequences that" if the secret was told to anyone,one of us would die after seven days and the other one would die gradually. It had no remedy. I shouted and started weeping. The year was running to an end and I and my family are in a terrible situation. I kept praying to God.

The following year , Desmond became very weak and slim. The same day Elizabeth died the previous year , Desmond also gave up the ghost that same day. That's a one year interval .

Granny ends the story and they all bursted In tears. Granny never went back to the village . She lived with her son and his family in the city and they lived happily ever after.

"What a wicked world! Now I know the world is indeed a dark place " said the daughter in-law.