Chapter 10

Kill it! I could hear the voices of the people watching in the palace scream.

Sara lak and his guards rush out and fully armed they head towards me but I already transformed into an eagle and flew into the sky as arrows chased me from behind.

The whole kingdom was alert as I flew to the cave of borrakama after watching then from a safe distance.

I wanted to know if she was dead, I needed her to be dead, she is filled with venom and all she does is poison and kill.

I had done a favor to Sara lak but he would not know it as her death would ensure that his kingdom prospered.

At the cave I pulled out the arrows that had gotten to me and relaxed for my body to heal.

I waited a few days before I went back for my totem but it was not at lodiwes house and neither was it in mine, it felt like Sara lak had taken it, hoping I would come back for it.

Remembering borrakama's words, I made my way for the palace, I wait in like I did the last time, the whole place was covered with people, the guards had doubled.

I waited patiently into the night before I went in tip toeing straight to where I was sensing the totem is.

The guards had all slept at thier  post an as I quietly made my way to the totem, I grabbed it and pulled from the stand it was in, unknown to me the room had been booby trapped.

Removing the totem had woken an array of arrows that pinned me to the wall as my scream woke the guards whom I had successfully passed by.

Sara lak was informed about the progress and he hurried down to meet me in the cell where I was pined to the wall.

You killed my child again just like that man indo had done, you all are cursed.

All you people from that backwater side are cursed and you will have to pay for what you have done, his eyes burned red as he spoke under the oil lamps.

I could see his pain in his face, it was cold just like his granddaughter, but my worry is how to free myself, I can't die here I tell myself.

I know what you are he continued, the healer had come to me that the beast of miko had been awaken and it had killed the porter's family.

I doubted him but here you are, I will have to kill you before you hurt more people, tomorrow I shall set you ablaze under the sun, a death fitting for an abomination.

He turned and the guards follow him, try to turn but my bones pinned by the large metal arrows  drive the pain through my body.

Closing my eyes as my weak body rests on the wall, I dream of home and everyone, I see my father checking his bow before a hunt.

He turns and looks at me with a smile and he says to me, "remember we are hunters before we are men.

And then I move around and I see borrakama who pushes me out of my own head, my eyes open and I repeat the words my father has said to me slowly and as the chant grew so did the pull of my body as I used my strength to pull my body from the wall falling on my face.

The giant Arrows pierced dipper and I groan in pain, I grab unto them and pull them out.

Shouting each time one came out of me, I lay there for awhile before changing into a snake and slithering out of the cell.

My  totem was with the king and I would go and get it, I make my way to his room and once got there I changed back and took my totem, I used the end to strike him in his sleep Anand his blood splattered as I continued to hit him.

He was dead and alone, I opened the window and made my way out as a chimera holding my totem, I left the kingdom of boda.

I flew far and landed in a far off country where no one will know me, and started my life anew again.

As the years past I discovered I wasn't growing old and so I did not bother to stay in any family unit, I became a wanderer moving around the world in search for a place that would suit me, a people that would accept me and each time I would have to leave again.

But there was something odd which had happened to me recently, i am now living in America, I found my way through the slave routes, trying to discover the land of the white men I dutifully followed them as a slave across the sea.

And I had gotten to America and here I was sold to Mr  Joseph pines who was a poor slaver, he had his  four daughters all beautiful and always finely dressed sitted on the pouch of thier house.

I noticed one was always looking at me she 'marta' had curly blond hair and pleasant gray eyes, I would have called her a daughter of miko but borrakama's eyes were green.

Mr Joseph pines did not treat his slaves as the others had done, he felt he needed them to  work so he could keep his family safe and wealthy so he treated his slaves as his tools.

Until  the day he notice one of his tools Has stolen the heart of his daughter.

I was working that afternoon when Marta pines came to me, she spoke in thier language which I have been learning slowly.

What is your name she asked?

Kal I replied.

Can we be friends Kal she asked with a smile flashing her gray beautiful eyes and moving her hair that shone like gold backwards.

I nodded.

She says to me"where are you from and I stare at her unable to remember, because I have been to many places.

What are you doing Marta,?

Elaine yelled, papa said we should not talk to the slaves, get back here at once she ordered.

I nod and she goes to meet her sister who continues to yell at Marta.

And this was where it started for me and Marta pines.