Part 3 (1)

"Behold over there! Babida the lumberjack is back from the Forbidden Mountain but the young lad Bodo is not with him," an imperial soldier exclaimed while standing in front of his tent in Okunde's garden.

All of the combatants on the lawn of the garden well as some residents who came to support the imperial troops, glared in the direction where the woodsman was coming from. He looked sad and exhausted from his overnight journey.

The inner corners of his eyebrows were raised and his eyes were red. He looked lost in his thoughts. Indeed, he couldn't help thinking about the Beast's coup de grace on the young Bodo and how he would have been able to save his young companion should the ancestors have been by their side. The film of the tragedy was playing time and time again in his head.

He managed to hide his emotion throughout the way back to the military camp but at the sight of his comrades, he broke into pieces.