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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

"My Hanra grew faster than children her age, she is very smart and beautiful. She always topped her class and it made me happy, always." 


"The princess is very special," Sangth said with a smile. 


"I am not able to believe that anymore. When Hanra was born and her lamp was also in the Tangale shrine,  I thought my daughter would be able to protect me and that she was really special but the gods played a cruel joke on me. Her lamp is just there glowing,  she does have any powers.  If the people should find out,  she might be banished and lose the throne forever." Queen Memma said and looked away. 


A young man covering his head with the hood of his cloth stood by palace walls eavesdropping on the palace guards who were busy discussing the princess's condition. 


"The princess was badly hurt when she was brought back." Said the older guard. 


"Yes, and this is causing the Queen a lot of trouble." Said the younger guard in agreement with what the older guard said. 


"Poor Queen Memma, her daughter's condition has made her weak." Said the older guard with a sad expression. 


"She doesn't even stay in the palace anymore." The younger one said and the older one asked. 


"Really?" They continued talking in the distance while the eavesdropper smiled and went away. 


Behind an abandoned building,  he moved the grasses that surrounded a tunnel and crept into it. He kept crawling in the dark tunnel for a while until he finally saw a tiny light, he went towards it and came outside. 


It was the outside of the kugama kingdom but there were people, men, women, and children dressed beautifully. It was a marketplace where they were all busy buying and selling their wares while children ran about playing. The young man took off his hood. 


They bowed down to him and he walked passed them. He went straight to a huge palace bigger than that of Kugama, and the guards greeted him in the same manner. 


Your highness!!! The young man called to a woman seated on a huge chair and knelt on one leg with his head bowed and his left hand on his bent leg.


CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO (A SPY)