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A long time ago, the people of the Kugama kingdom suffered attacks from stronger cities around them for several years, then came the advent of King Bajju the Sixth who decided to put an end to the misery of his people.
He dared to venture into the evil forest (Saro) to seek the help of the spirit wisperers also known as the Izagi and he got a solution but not without giving them something in return.
In answer to his problem, two beautiful daughters bestowed with the power of music (Etsako) were given to him.
The people of the kingdom were also given the power of music from generation to generation but they are not as powerful as the princesses. Their powers were controlled by the magical lamps of their ancestors. 
A power that no force or even the strongest of armies could stand against was given to the two princesses. At a hit of their first and tiniest musical notes, they destroy their enemies. 
One of the twin princesses was the most powerful because her musical notes were not controlled by the magical lamp (Dendi), this made her one of the Chosen (Oron) while the other was controlled by the magical lamp. Her powers were in a honeycomb-like design lamp in the middle of the sacred shrine (Tangale shrine) where their lamps were kept safe.
The lamps rarely go off but if eventually a lamp goes off, that means the owner of the lamp is gone to the world beyond, and as soon as a new life is born the lamp comes on.
When the two daughters turned into women, As per tradition, the king decided to coronate the chosen one believing that she would be able to protect their kingdom more.
But on her coronation, her father the king saw her get angry with one of the guards and she suddenly struck him dead with a musical note.
When the king confronted his daughter, she didn't seem to be regretful and so right before her, he coronated his other daughter.
Infuriated, she tried to attack her sister, the queen and in her attempt, she murdered her father who tried to protect his other daughter.
She was arrested and banished from the kingdom. As she left she vowed to come back and take what rightfully belonged to her.
Several years later, the Queen had a daughter and was happy that she had a successor, someone to leave the throne to after she was gone.
But as the princess grew up, she didn't have a voice, a magical singing voice. 
A MAGIC WITHIN was lacking in her, although she grew up faster than the other children in the kingdom and her eyes would always glow beautifully in the strange night, she was not showing any signs of the powers she was supposed to have as the firstborn.
The queen worried and did all she could in her power to bring back her daughter's voice.
Meanwhile, far far away. The banished princess was ruling her kingdom, she had her army and was swiftly taking over the strongest kingdoms there was in the world with her amazing powers.
She was still determined to come back and take what rightly belonged to her.
To find out if the new princess will have a voice, what her glowing eyes mean if the banished princess will take back what belongs to her, and if the new princess will be able to fulfill her mother's wish of becoming a successor after her departure, then please read to the very end...

A MAGIC WITHIN

As he was being carried to the grave with his casket floating in the air in between strong masculine men using their powers to carry him, soldiers stood at attention and saluted as they passed through the golden carpet spread in the middle of the lined up soldiers until the place that has been drugged to place the casket in. 


The men carrying the coffin only had small wrappers tied around their waist and oil rubbed on their skin made them shine under the evening sun that was already going to rest. 


Adorned with jewelry (despite being a king, she is still a woman after all) King Nenma came first followed closely behind was her mother. They both slowly walked to the tomb of the late king Bajju with flowers in one hand which was not a custom but something the king learned from her missionary teachers. 


Flowers are a symbol of life, they grow and continue to bloom even in the harshest of weather. Though the person might no longer be around, the memory and legacy live on and her dear father's memory will never fade away, not now, not ever.


They had sand in their other hand but when they got to the grave where the king large six feet under in a casket, King Nenma choked on the tears about to fall from her eyes, she held them back quickly and luckily for her, she was wearing a golden veil on her head to cover her face. 


She also had to obey the rules and traditions that a king was never allowed to cry, come in contact with a corpse, or see the corpse directly without a veil. These were rules her father, a soldier never obeyed but she had to obey them or what kind of king would she be?


"Careful my king. A great king must never cry." Said the love of her life, her prince, to her as he was standing by her side.


"My father never obeyed that rule but do not worry because I am not as stubborn as my father. I will surely obey this rule." King Nenma replied and forced a smile.


They threw the flowers at the same time onto his casket and turned around. Facing the elders and other kings under the Kugama kingdom, they poured the sand over their heads into the grave. 


They said a few memorial chants and King Nenma walked away holding back her tears and clenching her fist at the memory of how her sister murdered their father. The queen couldn't hold back her tears and turned around to look at her husband one more time and she fell by her husband's grave weeping bitterly.


CHAPTER FOURTEEN (BURIAL)