I look at the man on the wall and at the smiling lamb. The lamb stands on two feet and Nediresdiu flicks his tongue.
"My name is Lilith Covington." says the lamb. "You are Mokiri P. Gains."
"No!" It was the first word out of my mouth. I hate I can never find the words. "Yawa is your father and Aleigha is your uncle." she smiles. "That's funny. Your uncle is a liar."
"And a nigger!" Nediresdiu hisses. "I know you can't say anything against him. You don't know."
"What do you people want?" echoes Clayton. "Where is Mable's corpse?" the lamb's head turns to him. "How fuck would anybody know that?"
"He lied in court. That's Perjury."
"What lie? Mable was hopped on drugs and tortured a child. She kept kidnapping her!"
"But you told a lie." says the Lamb. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't even talk but the lie was that she was a pedophile. WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, bare with me. She should have never fucked with somebody's daughter for no reason to even enourage the thought. Ya 'ilahy, it's her own damn fault. And Olisha beat her ass. And another--" Uma screams mid-sentence. The manger is on fire and soon the entire child. "yadi waeayni wa'udhuni wakalimati almantuqat kuluha yahkumuha allah subhanah wataealaa!"
The flames engulfed her. All I hear is arabic dying out in a echo. What is left is just bones and soon they disappear.
"I don't know about Shikki!" I yell.
"She is your cousin. Mable wasn't a pedophile. She wanted a pretty daughter, that's it." says Lilith.
"What the fuck does it have to with you!" I lent my hand out exgerrating my emotional rollercoster. "We knew her!" she exclaims. "She had no house to go to!"
"She was homeless but what the fuck--"
"DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH YOU!" shouts Clayton. "You are in the body of a jackass!"
"I'm a horse!"
Lilith looks at the coffin we brought in. "Are those bodies... for her?"
"No! You stupid nasty pussy bitch!" Clayton seethes. "You will not talk to me like that!"
"Bitch, Fu--" fire again, pour out his eyes and lips. "Clayton!" my body is thrown to the barn wall. "Nediresdiu, grab the girl." he leaps off the walls like a stinky and comes back up a full grown man.
He has a square head and even shoulders. "I haven't been me in years. The boy is working with us. We are the Children of Besujia." His eyes are grey. "You saw me but I was different. I was in your sleep."
"What the fuck do y'all want?" I end up clapping, I'm getting loud. "What is this about!"
"Tell the truth. Where is Mable's body." questions Lilith. "Your father handled the burial. Or should we say..."
"Her bones are missing." states Nediresdiu. It is a white man, my mind won't part from it. His hair is gray, eyes gray, and he's tall, wearing a white suit. And I ask, "Why you shroud in white, huh?" I nearly smile. "You a God's man. A church nigga? What the fuck!"
"I am!" he grins. "I used to go to church. My name is Leopold Growden."
"Fantastic, so, Zebedee is what to you?"
"My nephew." As I look at him, it is if something is guilding my eyes and I see a tail swing between his legs. "I have cow feet. I'm sorry," he smiles. "I'm Abner." He fixes his cuffs. "I'm Abner Jr. In a new body. I didn't know my family. I couldn't even talk but thank God. Uncle Leo gave me a body. Or... is he my son? Or the son of another which thou had been offered to me?"
"You people--"
He holds his finger up. "Don't!" he steps an inch further. I bounce on my toes. I wanna fight.
"Sheila, you will not. Not with me. For I am an idol."
"So..." I cock my head. "My family is very religious. We thought we could pass without sin. But I am a sin. I have cow feet." he stares at me. "I have a cow tongue and tail. When I was born, I came out of a cow. Mokiri, Sheila, do you know what a God is?"
What could I possibly say to that? This family is beyond fucked up. "What are you saying? You crackas praise a fucking cow!"
"No, we want to give God a body. You people..." he gestures towards me. "Praise a snake. Niggers are liars."
"THat's not what Shikki wrote!"
"So you do know your cousin?" he turns his head to the side looking at me from his left eye. "You people are damaging. Only God knows what you would do with the church. God's house can't just let anybody in. YOU PEOPLE, dropped the land."
"YOU PEOPLE took us from the land!"
"YOU twist the bible. That's what she did. You believe the snake is a BLACK MAN! For shame on his name, YOU PEOPLE are flawed, a creation turned from him."
"What are talking about!"
"VAMPIRES!" he hollers. "Vampires! If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people! Leviticus 17:10!"
I don't know the bible like that. Clayton...
"YOU PEOPLE made it up! So the Lord said, I will make GOOD PEOPLE and you hate us. We give to BLACK PEOPLE and the Lord made them brown of each shade to show just how YOU PEOPLE are so unclean. SAVAGES, you'll never change!"
"You call us SAVAGES! When it was you who put people in a basement. A man died!"
"YOU invented it. YOU let him die! That man would have lived with medicine WE made. You call us, liars, but God put us here to help you Dirt Folk."
I know damn well, it was Adam that God made from mud. My eyes get wide, "It was Gaia. That made the earth what about that."
"From cracked earth!" he yells. "Black don't crack, please." he spits to the side. "You hide behind ropes you put in your hair! Behind the materials of the earth and sky. You mask your evil!"
"Call it..."
"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God. John 3:19!"
I stand straight. "You lie to me."
He smirks, "Call it..."