Chapter 49

“How did you happen to be up there by this ungodly time of the day?”, look at who's asking, it's like the kettle calling the pot black.

“What was he doing in the throne room while others were fast asleep, not that I wasn't glad for that.

He's the only reason am not lying dead in the pool of my blood, without him, I don't know what I would have done.

“I was just having a late-night walk, I walk whenever I can't sleep. What of you?”, I asked as casually as a person can while being carried by their father.

He glared at me, “you dare not deviate from the issue in hand, what were you doing up there”, he looked up to accentuate his question.

“As I said, I was taking a walk up there to calm my mind”, I said like it was no big deal falling from the ceiling. It's as if I fall Every time, not that it was my first time climbing the ceilings, but this is my first time falling.

It might be based on the fact that I slept off, the times I walked the ceiling I wasn't sleeping, I was just taking walks to clear my mind.

"Who showed you the route?”, he narrowed his eyes to a slit, I hate it when the father does that, he looks like a judge whenever he does that.

“No one dad, I just found it when I was exploring on a certain day”, I would rather not implicate Kwofo, I can't repay a person's goodwill with evil.

“Don't you dare feed me that trash, I wasn't born yesterday, am your father? I know you're not all that reckless, someone must have opened a space for you, you can't do that all by yourself”, he still wouldn't let it slide.

“ You know what? bring me down let's talk, I can't comfortably talk being carried by you, it's a distraction in its way”, I tried to find a way to get out of this hot soup.

He mercifully brought me down, I stretched my body to release the taut muscles.

“So tell me, what were you doing up there?”, father took a seat on his throne," I am waiting. The faster you tell me, the easier it will be for you to go back to bed”, he smiled.

I don't have a choice, I have to go back to sleep, my comfortable bed is waiting for me, "I might have asked Kwofo to open a space in the ceiling, and he might have the route to almost all the secret places in the palace.

I just asked him, to open the space, so I can walk on the ceiling when I couldn't sleep. I've done it like five times on the day I can't sleep.

I've been having restless and sleepless nights since mom's death, sleeping doesn't come as easily as it does before.

I must have dozed off when I was on my walk, that must be the reason, and by the way, thank you for not going to sleep”.