Many years pa.s.sed and Odo Junior remained on earth watching over his family, many ghost came and went though like him there were a few others that had unfinished business that couldn"t move on.Initially when the babies came he could relate with them, play with them and all, when she will beg them to be calm while she went around doing her ch.o.r.es he will play with them, people around usually commented on how obedient the babies were, they will laugh on their own and general not disturb, what they didn"t know was that their ghost father was keeping them engaged.
This also made it was easy for him to leave things for their mother through them there was a time he took a bag of money and wrote "for the cute babies" and dropped it with the babies who were around nine months as at then, right in her sitting room. When she saw it she was like who owns so much money? ... and kept it here? but when she saw the note she desperately ran out to see if she could find the person who dropped it and even asked people outside her house if they saw anyone leave but they all said no one.
Those were they days he could help her a little without over doing it and scaring her. However, no matter the amount of money he left, money wasn"t everything the days that broke his heart are those silent nights she cried tears after tears wetting her pillow and missing him badly, yet in the morning she still left the bed and faced the day as if nothing was wrong.
They always met in the night to catch up with each other under a very ma.s.sive tree in the village where they are, this tree housed many of them, because they were friendly with the spirit tree, and was was now their treehouse lord.
When humans approached this trees they always get goose b.u.mps and weird winds or even still air but the humans can"t see the spirits except those of them with enhanced sights or perceptions.
These ghost also traded with each other here under the tree, this trees were not much and they were spread out in the village some herbalist and spiritual people also sometimes visit this trees to get what they needed.
Izogie took care of her children Osaro and Osaze all by herself with little or no help from anyone, it wasn"t easy at all, many times Odo wept to see her loneliness and suffering, he desperately wanted to help her but couldn"t find away at all, after the children pa.s.sed five years of age they couldn"t see him again for they started gaining better understanding of the world they now lived in, continuing seeing them under any means could alter their psyche.
Years tuned into decades his parents were now in their sixties and were trying to sell off some of their properties to convert to cash and go back to their own place in Anambra state, his woman was in her early forties and the children too had grown to be men in their early twenties, though Odo Junior did not age a day older than the age he died he watched his woman, children and parents grow older all heartbroken, when they could have had each others company.
what was he to do? .....
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Since the day Ayanna woke up from the coma in her fathers palace, and was finally in full health she had always slept in her own beautiful room but in the middle of the night she will be awoken by a great marketing in some distance place away, she couldn"t place where the noise of the market was coming from, since it was late she will block it off and soon go back to sleep.
However, there is a saying that "curiosity killed the cat", on one of the occasions that she was awoken by the noise from the midnight market, she decided to listen to what they were buying and selling, though her logic told her not to, she still wanted to unravel the mystery market.
She totally forgot to run the incident by her father or even Hauwa her guard, concentrating on the sounds she followed it and picked up on several conversations.
Ghost 1: So Grace how did it go?
Ghost 2: I told you I will succeed, I did it....
Ghost 1: Really yeeh! you did it with him? .....
Ghost 2: Yes and I almost strangled him after why did he see me only when am already dead? you know what this means right?
Ghost 1: yeah! I do, it means you will be leaving soon.... (sad face)
Ayanna was confused, so she picked another conversation. She tried to see the people conversing all she can see was pitch darkness though she can sense them she knew if she concentrated only on seeing them she would but she wanted to be sure of what was really happening there without anyone detecting her presence.
Ghost 3: So you want to buy the destiny of her husband for her son Oghenekaro?
Diviner: Yes, that"s what I want to do.
Ghost 3: but why would you want to do something like that for your client doesn"t her son have a good star? what exactly is going on?.....
Diviner: ehm...
Ghost 3: you know you have to tell the truth to get exactly what you want if not I will give you something else. The ghost said sinisterly.
Diviner: Actually this woman has a little special ability she is one those that has the gift of sight, she and her husband were not rich until she took in for this her son then she saw that her child"s star was good so she exchanged it with that of her husband more than two decades ago and now that that son is old enough to care for himself and his parent they want to return his star so that ...
Ghost 3: wow! what a mind....
Ayanna was astonished, is this some heavenly market? now she would really want to go there, can she? there must be a reason why she keeps hearing them right? can she just proceed there now? she stood up from her bed..... no!... no! that won"t be right she needed to find information on the night market before she goes there so she doesn"t offend anyone by making the trip there.
Ayanna couldn"t go back to sleep so she just listened to the weird conversations, she realised that in this market humans fate can be made or finished. There were also strong men of the Almighty that were there to buy back the stars and destinies of their members on and on it went.
Then at exactly 4 a.m everywhere went silent, no more marketing they all went away? she checked and truly the place was deserted just for two or three people cleaning up the place. So strange Ayanna taught.