Dethroned episode 17 – 18
DETHRONED
Episode 17
By AMAH’S HEART
I sighed as I turned to the left side of the bush path.
I am on my way to meet Eze at our usual meetup point near the village stream.
I have been trying so hard to get over the depressing realization that I no longer had the ability to appear or disappear.
It still stings my ego that I have to be making use of my foot for long distances after getting accustomed to using my powers to get my venue wishes granted.
I arrived the venue and found out that Eze hasn’t reached yet. I just hope that he hasn’t forgotten again that we had earlier agreed to meet here today.
Eze and I meet every two days at this spot. From here, we take strolls around the village and afterwards move over to Eze’s hut to get ourselves under the sheets until Eze was fully satisfied.
Ever since that day I was deflowered, Eze’s séxúal appetite seems to be getting insatiable with each passing day.
I love him so much as usual I was always more than willing to give him access to my body after each meetings and strolls.
I noticed we were slowly drifting apart and I couldn’t understand why. These days it is more like our relationship centered more on the intimacy alone.
The worst is the fact that it has become a routine for Eze to forget fixed dates and time for our occasional meet ups.
That’s why I am seriously praying in my heart that today would be different, that way the stress of walking down here would not be in vain.
As though the gods heard my prayers, I saw Eze from a distance walking down to meet me at the point where I stood.
” I am sorry for my lateness my love… I had to fetch firewood for Mama.. oh! you are looking pretty as usual my love” Eze said planting a light kiss on my lips
Eze’s compliment had me blushing for a few seconds before I eventually wore a serious look on.
I realized that I needed to address his change in behavior once and for all before it graduates into something worst than lateness.
” Thank you for the compliment but I am not happy with you Eze” I blurted out folding my hands feigning anger
” Why..? did I do something wrong..?”
” Eze I don’t know if you haven’t observed that you are fast making it a norm to be coming late and then tactically bypass your way with stories… tell me the truth..is it a good behavior..?” I asked whilst looking at Eze defiantly.
” I’m sorry my love… I know it isn’t a good behavior at all. I am sorry please… I promise to change okay..?” Eze said smiling at me but I pretended to still be angry at him.
” Are you sure..?”
” Yes my love… I promise to change”
Hearing this I smiled widely and hugged Eze. I soon pulled out of the hug when I felt Eze’s hands touching my buttocks.
” So what are we going to be doing today? I hope it is not the usual routine of going to your hut for intimacy…?” I asked staring at Eze in displeasure
” Why..? Are you tired of me already…?”
” Eze you know that it is not where I am driving at… what I mean is that lately, we are drifting apart. The only thing that seems to be bonding us these days is intimacy… Haven’t you noticed?” I quizzed with my sad eyes fixed on Eze
” I haven’t noticed anything my love… I feel it’s just you been scared and paranoid about being sore…
…but it’s okay! we will be more intentional about bonding together beyond intimacy… will that make you happy..?” Eze asked staring at me lovingly and I nodded in affirmation.
Although Eze still pets me, I have observed that a lot has really changed about his behavior or maybe it is just me being paranoid like he said earlier.
I don’t know why I have been feeling so insecure, scared, and paranoid lately.
I mean who wouldn’t…?
When till now I am yet to find out who the girl ‘Nene’ is and how she knew about me before everyone else did.
Recently, my head has been so full of worries that I no longer sleep well at night out of fear for the unknown.
I can not even understand what is going on around me anymore.
Everyone and everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.
How can I forget how the other day I saw Amarachi standing with Jack on a bush path whilst engaging in a discussion
And when I had confronted her, she replied that Jack was merely asking for directions but her eyes said otherwise.
A tap brought me out of my ocean of thoughts and it is then I realized that I was still standing staring at Eze.
” Rana are you okay..? you seem lost.. would you mind to share what’s bothering you…?” Eze asked looking at me in utmost concern
I sighed as I moved away from Eze and I walked towards a nearby tree. I sat down at the foot of the tree and shortly afterwards Eze joined me.
” I am okay… Just bothered about community problems and everything going on around me” I answered flippantly and shrugged my shoulders
” Oh! but why do I feel like there’s more to your lost in thoughts…? Rana you do know that you can trust me with anything at all right…?”
I nodded in the affirmative yet I still didn’t say a word in response to Eze
“…is this because of earlier..? I have apologized and promised to work on becoming a better man.. haven’t I?”
” No Eze… my lost in thoughts had nothing to do with you… My head is just filled up with the usual community issues of the villagers… That’s all” I replied trying to sound more convincing
” I see you do not trust me enough to tell me everything about you and your thoughts… but it’s okay, I understand” Eze said to me with a deep frown
The silence that followed was awkward yet deafening.
Deep down I was having conflicting thoughts if to tell Eze about my worries or I should rather keep them to myself
I heaved as I decided that I will opt for the former. Eze is my lover after all.
” Eze it’s about Amarachi my most trusted maiden servant… the one I told you I love and treat as a younger sister” I uttered breaking the awkward silence
” Yes I still remember all the good things you do tell me about her… What about her…? is something wrong with her..?”
” She’s fine.. it’s just that I saw her standing with Jack, one of the men that tried to kidnap when I wasn’t a Priestess yet… When I confronted her… she told me that he was only asking for directions but my instincts tells me there’s something more than that” I explained and Eze who was listening attentively nodded in understanding
” I understand your inner worries… but somehow I feel like you are just being paranoid over nothing serious my love… It’s possible that she was truly giving him directions somewhere”
” You think so..?” I asked looking at Eze and he shrugged as a form of response
I inhaled and exhaled deeply before I continued expressing my innermost thoughts and fears.
“..I don’t know why I have been feeling so agitated lately… I guess it’s because of what happened with Jack and James before I became a Priestess. All the same, I will work on my trust issues… Who knows? you might be right about me being paranoid for nothing serious” I uttered whilst looking lovingly at Eze.
We were still holding eye contact when I suddenly felt nauseous and the urge to vomit became so intense.
I tried overlooking it and instead focus on the lovely moment but when I couldn’t hold it in any further, I threw up right on Eze’s broad chest.
A bell immediately rang in my mind as I lifted my head. Oh no! I hope it isn’t what I am thinking it is..?
Eze and I looked at each other in shock. I am sure that the same thing was running through our minds.
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DETHRONED
Episode 18
By AMAH’S HEART
I was thrown into a state of panic as I saw the result of the local prëgnåncy test I had just conducted.
After I vømited on Eze’s chest earlier, we had both shared similar presumptions and decided to conduct a test hoping that it isn’t true.
With that fear in our hearts, we walked in silence to Eze’s hut.
It was in his hut I waited whilst Eze went to the village medicine hall to purchase what I would use to conduct the prëgnåncy test.
Immediately Eze returned, I properly read the instructions on the covering and followed every step until I successfully carried out the test.
Afterwards, Eze and I had to wait with our hearts accelerating for a couple of minutes.
It was after about five minutes that the result revealed itself on the indicator strictly meant for that purpose.
The test indicator which is in form of a feather-like object just kept staring at me with glaring red lines which indicated that the result is positive.
I am prégnant!
I was in awe as I stared at the indicator hoping to wake up from this daymare!
I don’t know what to make out of this awkward situation.
And Eze isn’t helping issues either as he just sat quietly on his bed staring at me.
” I am in big trouble… oh the gods!.. what am I suppose to do now..?” I exclaimed aloud and at the same time lamenting to myself as I kept moving to and fro the bedroom
“…I am finished!.. what will people say..? what will become of me right now..?”
” Rana I think you should calm dow..” Eze was about saying when I ângrily cut his words off
” Eze were you about saying I should calm down..? how exactly am I suppose to stay calm in a situation like this..? a prégnant priestess…? where have you ever heard of such!” I blurted out still feeling paranoid by the whole news
” That’s the more reason you need to calm down so we can come up with a way out of this mess… don’t forget I am equally involved in this too” Eze replied sighing but I was beyond being calm
How can I be calm when my whole life is practically stumbling before my eyes…?
How can I go to sleep peacefully when my house is slowly lighting up in fire…?
Unable to say a word in response to Eze, I kept pacing around with tears already cascading down my cheeks.
Honestly, I am devastated and my emotional state is terribly wrécked!
” I think you should calm down Rana.. it is not the end of the world… there’s always a way out of every messy situation” Eze said slowly standing up from the bed. He walked towards me and stood right in front of me.
” Eze it’s easy for you to say this because you are not the one in my shoes… do you even realize the implications of my people finding out that I have not only been intimate with a man but also prégnant with his child…?” I asked plainly staring at Eze
I continued expressing my påin whilst looking at Eze with my sad eyes that bore so many emotions in them.
” …I will surely lose my crown yet that would still not be compared to the embarrassment of being shamed and bânished from this land afterwards”
” I understand Rana… that’s why you should take it easy on yourself.. anyways I have been able to come up with a good idea..” Eze said shrugging his shoulders.
As I heard this, my sad face immediately brightened up and I looked expectantly at Eze whilst wondering what his good idea could be.
I was deeply shocked by his next words.
“…Rana I think the best idea is to simply flush the føetus out … I will suggest you just get rid of the prëgnåncy… that’s the only way to avoid the inevitable implications that might follow if our people gets to find out about this prégnåncy!” Eze uttered nonchalantly and I looked at him wide-eyed.
Deep down, I was wondering if I truly heard Eze correctly or those words he uttered was merely a slip of tongue.
” You..you.. want me to abørt our baby which happens to be my first seed..?” I asked unable to believe that those suggestions actually came from Eze
” Yes Rana but please don’t get me wrong… I love that my seed is growing inside you.. it’s my child too after all.. but then we have to protect our dignity especially if your position as the Priestess is at stake!” Eze said as he kept sighing sadly
I exhaled deeply as I realized that Eze is right after all. But for me Rana, accepting to the kílling of my first child was not an option for various reasons.
” I am sorry Eze but I can’t do it… I can’t kíll an innocent baby for a sin we had both indulged in so it’s better you think of something else… because that isn’t an option at all” I said as I slowly walked over to Eze’s bed and sat down on it.
” Rana there’s no other way out of this situation… You already know that it is forbidden for a Priestess to be prégnant… except maybe you are okay with being dethroned and eventually bânished for desecrating the land..?”
Eze’s question renewed my påin as the implications begun weighting heavily on me.
I couldn’t even stop the tears anymore as it poured out of my eyes in torments.
” It’s okay Eze… there’s no point adding to my pain because no matter what you say to me I will still not flúsh out this child.. so think of a better way please”
” I’m sorry Rana but that’s the only thing I could think of… except maybe you have a better suggestion..?”
I was silent for a few seconds trying to come up with something when an idea eventually popped up in my head.
” Eze how about we run away from this village..? Maybe we can go somewhere faraway where nobody knows us…?” I exclaimed loudly.
From where Eze stood opposite me, I saw him smirking as he kept looking at me weirdly
” Seems you are actually forgetting that you are the god’s chosen Priestess…? Which means that if we run away without a proper rítual of dethronement being carried out on you… then surely the gods will fish you out no matter where or how far you run to” Eze explained and I sighed sadly.
Eze is actually right about what he said, there’s no hiding from the gods.
” Okay then… I will willingly accept to be dethroned and banished… that way we will be free to run away to a faraway place without the disturbance of the gods or our people’s judgmental eyes!”
” Rana if you are banished… you will automatically become an osu(outcast)… and you already know that our tradition forbids a eligible man or woman to be married to an outcast… the repercussions is that our children will grow up with a cùrse of premature déāths”
I sighed because I realized that Eze is right yet again. I watched as he walked over to where I sat on the bed
“… Please Rana get rid of the prëgnåncy.. do it for yourself.. do it for us my love” Eze pleaded staring at me as he slowly sat beside me on the bed.
I was short of words to reply and also left in a confused state of mind.
So many thoughts were running through my mind.
I honestly don’t know if I should accept what Eze is telling me to do or if I should still stick to my decision of not flushing out my child.
And sadly, I have already exhausted all the suggestions in my mind so I am now in a state of dilemma not knowing what to do anymore.
Tbc