Ahhh! No! let go of my hand!", Francis screamed out loudly while having the same nightmare which have drained a lot of his precious sleep as well as some of his energy. Then he was woken up by Sasan who had heard the noise from the other room which made her to rush quickly towards his room, in order to see what's the cause of the wild disturbances that might affect everyone's sleep in the darkest hour of the night.
"What happened to you? Why did you screamed out at this late hour of the night?", Sasan anxiously questioned looking at his pale face with growing affection. Francis was shaking as well as panting profusely when he sat down on the bed and drew the blanket up to his chest in fright that he used in covering his entire body except for his head which he left open.
" I had a terrifying nightmare again which was quite frightening and which made me to scream out loudly", Francis meekly apologize and said,"I will quickly freshen up and get ready for today activities in the city". He removed the blanket revealing some dark scars on his lower body at the right side of his abdomen which appeared to be spreading to the other side of his body, and got up from the bed but he didn't notice the scars on his body and wore a long transparent cloth which covered his body from the neck region to his feet.
"I think the bad energy that was implanted with the energy of the map, inside you by your father is now feeding on you since its presence are now showing and affecting your vital organs slowly. The only solution is to get it out of your body before it starts attacking the vital organs immediately", Sasan explained as she came close to him and showed him the black scars on his body which made him feel down casted as he sat down on the bed looking dejected.
"I think I will accept their offer to embark on this journey if only to get rid of this bad energy that's eating away my body but before I do that, I need to talk to Zari about it in details. By the way, where is she? She had told me that she had an official assignment that maybe was given to her by the council, and had asked me to see her after the council's meeting which is now already over and I didn't see her at all, so do you know where she is right now?", He asked her feeling quite sure that she must have known why Zari didn't show up after the meeting,
"Well, Zari wanted me to inform you through a message she sent to me, that she won't be able to make it due to some delay in settling what she thought to be a minor dispute between two clans that can be solved easily, that is now proving difficult for her to handle. So she said that you should abide by the council's decision for your own safety and that of the other sects as well", She replied at once and continued as she turned to leave,"And if you have any questions you would like to ask me, let me know right away at sunrise and I suggest we do some form of training alongside the main training that will be of great help to you which I propose we begin after the bad energy have been removed from within you alongside the energy that will be added to it in order to find the map",
"Okay, I suppose that's a good idea which I accept without any complaints", He answered immediately indicating total acceptance by raising both of his hands at his shoulder length and dropped it at once down on his thigh.
"All right but don't scream out again in order not to create any form of disturbance that might arose from yelling out loudly. Have a good night rest because you'll not be able to get enough rest once the sunrise comes up because the council members will send some guards to fetch you for the ritual ceremony",. She responded and was about to leave when she missed a step which almost made her fall if not for the timely save Francis did to prevent her from falling to the ground. She looked at Francis in bewilderment whom handsome figure greatly stunned her immensely and was moved for the first time, by his warm breath that melted her heart away as well as his warm embrace which made her heart beat faster. While she gaped her little mouth a bit opened as she stared closely to his face and she was able to see her reflection inside his blue eyes while Francis gazed on her round face. She wasn't as pretty as Lotus, the guard from the Doxa clan whom he had encountered before having his bath but she had simple eyes that could stir up their inner most emotions. For a while both of them stayed in that position feeling each other's warm embrace until Francis let her go, bringing her back to the present.
"Thank you, master", She bowed her head and appreciated him in a simple manner that brighten his heart,
"There's no need to thank me because it's the least I can do for you and don't ever feel too constraint to servitude but feel free to say what's in your mind after all we're from the same clan", He replied with a smile across his face that made her heart to skip a beat while she looked on.
"I guess you need to leave now but before you leave, I want you to help me find a suitable name from our clan which I will present to the council members tomorrow for approval so that it will become my second name officially here in Wintera since I was told by council to pick out a new name from our clan
which I need to bear as a member of the Wols tribe", He promptly requested,
"I will do so, master", She faintly replied and hastily moved out of the room feeling totally enraptured in his love spell which she fought hard to suppress. After she left, Francis chuckled as he remembered two ladies he encountered in his life that he won't forget while he was still on earth. The first lady was named Rachel Stone, who was among the first year student during his college days at St. Ambrose College in Benin, that was at first, appeared to be nice and reticent until the first together with the second semester rolled off before she started displaying her true colors. They became friends during their first semester and were all part of the music group that was influencial in promoting its records in the school. Rachel was seen to be very quiet and simple as well as brilliant in her academics which made a lot of people especially lecturers, to admire her her a lot but she soon became too proud of it and would often raised her shoulder high everywhere she goes. She was later influenced badly by her borgois room mate which set a wind of change in her behavioral pattern as soon as she started to mimic the sour lifestyle of her friends which involves wearing half-naked clothes which displayed sensitive parts of her body which was fair in complexion, hanging out with hooligans and savage cultist and skipping lectures which totally brought down her grades drastically. Her parents weren't aware of this until she became pregnant for a leader of a cult group that breed fear in the hearts of many in the college.
This made her parents to remove her from the college and also froze her bank account while they left her at their house to raise the baby until she gets a good job that will be able to sustain her baby and fend for herself but she was only allowed to stay in their home before she can get married to any suitor that could asked her for her hand in marriage which happens to be very difficult and stringent for her to obey but she hadn't no other choice than to accept her fate. As for her friendship with Francis, that had long cease to be when she decided to leave many of her old friends and those whom she called mediocre and ordinary, to follow the party ladies in order to get familiar with their lifestyle. The other lady Francis recalled was a lady that has chocolate skin and named Sarah Marshall whom he met after graduating from the college when he finished his studies. Sarah was quite outspoken and intelligent in her line of work where she was a rookie at the time she met Francis who saw her as a role model for other women who couldn't voice out their own opinion especially when they are being oppressed by wayward men. She worked in an editorial newspaper called the 'THE VOICE' and was the printer as well as a journal outcry for the oppressed people which was officially appointed by the Director named Steven James.