A servant, standing close to the lamp, immediately put on the fire again.
"My Lord." when queen Idia got close to man sitting at the other end of the hall, opposite the entrance door, she bowed and squatted on her knee to show respect to the man.
"Get up my beautiful queen." the man said to her.
"My Lord, I brought your son to you." she said to man, who apparently was her lord. presenting a crying baby to the lord.
"Really! Haha!
The windows of heaven have really opened, and the gods are showering us with gifts!" barely smiling, the lord said with joy.
"A second son!? what a great news!
Come my dear, bring him closer to me"
the king gestured to queen Idia. whose heart had skipped a beat when she heard her lord mention 'second son'.
"My lord?" she said questioning–ly. It seemed she had not heard what the king had said.
"Come closer to me." The king said to her again.
when she got close to him, the king, although he felt like kissing her on her forehead due to joy. Instead he took the baby from her and made some signs on the baby's forehead before murmuring some secret spells. Then his eyes widened a bit.
"Hmm. this is strange. the baby's bone seems older than the other Ogidigbo." The king stared thoughtfully at the child for a while then,
"Woman, tell me the truth, when did you deliver this baby? why does his bone seem older than it should be?." with a straight face, the king asked.
"My Lord I'm very sorry, I didn't mean to lie to you."
The queen, Idia, got on her knees before narrating everything that had happened earlier in the day.
The king checked then realised that the baby prince really wasn't breathing. He had been holding the baby all the while and didn't realise that the baby prince wasn't breathing. He arched his left eyebrows then he spoke.
"I see.. So that means queen Esagho's son who I had named Ogidigbo is not my first son.
Hmm.." The king thought for a while before he spoke again. "From today you shall be called Osawe, However since you are older than Ogidigbo but you did not cry at birth, I'll name you second first born and also heir to the throne. It therefore means that you and Ogidigbo are eligible to become the king."
Once the king finished with his declaration, he gave the child back to the mother then went back to sit on his throne. Unbeknownst to everyone the child at that moment started breathing.
The queen, Idia, took the prince, then returned to meet her group, when she noticed the prince had started breathing. She began dancing, similar to the way the first group had been dancing earlier.
Some time. Later that same day, after the queen Idia and her group had left, another group of people, led by another averagely beautiful woman came to the palace to meet the king.
The king, who had been thrilled the entire day by good news thus far, got another shocker that left him stunned.
Apparently. This newcomer woman, a wife of his, a queen. had also put to bed a bouncing baby boy. more weird though, was the fact that the child's bone age was even older than his first two sons presented earlier. Therefore although he was reluctant to acknowledge it, he realised that this newcomer's child; a boy. Was his one true first born son and heir. regardless of that he did not publicly declare the child an heir to the throne for reasons best known to him.
However, he later went on to give a name to the baby prince just like his two other half brothers. Moments later the newcomer queen left with her.
"I' have always thought I can outsmart that prophesy.
damn!
that old bitch! I regret the day I met you!"
The king thought to himself. he was screaming inside, his heart ached as he felt a tinge of fear.
A while later he asked three senior chiefs to wait behind before he dismissed the other chiefs and servants who were in the palace court. when the dismissed chiefs and servants had left, the remaining chiefs drew closer to the king. Soon they started discussing some serious issues in a hush tone.