he called my father and dear creep to my heart, I knew that there was something fishy about this transaction between Pa and that man but I did no expect that the man who claimed to be a messenger of the King to be an outlander. This is worst than I expected.
Pa walked into the circle and immediately went on his kneels begging "please my King, I had no idea he was an outlander, please have mercy I took the land because I needed to provide for my family" he said.
The king looked at him and said "so you had to provide for your family you took the land I planned to open a vast plantation for the people of this village, so you rather starve the entire village because of your family". I could feel the anger and dark aura emanating from him.
He looked at my father with a menacing gaze "were are your wife and kids?" he asked then he looked at the crowd and said "if this man here is a husband and a father to any of you walk to the circle so I can see the reason this man took my land"
From one side I saw Ma and Mea walking into the circle. When they came before the king Ma went on her knees and Mae followed "my king please take pity upon my family" ma said.
The king looked at them then asked "where is your first daughter? I know you have two girls"
Pa, Ma and Mea looked at me and the king followed their gaze and his eyes landed on me. My knees were already on the ground "please my King have mercy on my family, Pa took the land because he needed to prepare me for the festival, please we will look for any way to pay you back but please take pity on us" I said with teary eyes.
The king was quiet for a while then he walk to me and said "he did prepare you well and you caught the eyes of the King.
You will pay this debt with your life Eboti. You will become my possession, everything you have now belong to me.
You have heard about my Queen search and what happen to those who can't stand my strength, pray that the moon god give you the ability to give me satisfaction or you will loose your life" he looked at every inch of my body then said "your father may have the land but you are going back with me to Goma tonight. Go tell your family goodbye".
He said the went to the the village chief. I stood there frozen to my spot, my parents came to me crying and hugging me. My father's face was full with regrets and my mother's tears flow like the waters of the nue river on a rainy day.
I felt like it was a dream like everything will end when I wake up but I wasn't waking up. So it is real, I am going away from my family, I am a possession for the Demon King, he is too cruel 'no this is not real, Boti wake up' but no matter how I tried I couldn't wake up from this.
I hugged my Parents and told them to be strong that I will come visit them soon. It was hard saying goodbye to my parents, I tried holding my tears so i can give them courage but deep down I my heart is broken into countless pieces.
The king walk into the circle with a beautiful black horse. With his help I mounted the horse and he followed, he sat behind me. He pulled me closer to him and said "I have important things to do tomorrow so we will be very fast" and with his last words he horse began walking away.
I looked at my family one last time and the tears that I have been holding in began flowing 'ohhh god what faith you have you given me, is this how my life is going to end'.
When we moved further the horses took speed and off to Goma.