Unknown to them someone or something was watching them. Waiting to strike.
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Oya and Ayao are together talking.
"Do you remember the day you and Orunmila fought with Iku?" Asked Ayao.
"Yeah. I remember but...how is Iku back?"
"That I wonder. When people were running around saying that death is taking people's life like water...I did not think it was that bad."
"How many people have died so far?"
"...One million eight hundred and thirty and six people so far have died."
"..."
Oya is speechless and in absolute shock.
"It is really mad!" Says Oya.
The room goes silent for a good fifty seconds. Ayao then breaks the silence.
"How did he die?"
Oya doesn't answer immediately but gives Ayao a response.
"Two of his subordinate chiefs had challenged his rule. He wanted to banish both of them but only pitted one of them. So..., my love was challenged by one of them. My love asked me for his thunderstones so he could use them for the fight. But one problem."
"What?"
"...It was wet..."
"Why... was it wet?"
"... Long story. It doesn't matter. My love could not face him while they were wet so he went to cleanse it but that cost him the palace. Thunder stroke the palace and because of all the humiliation he refused to fight. He couldn't bear it... So, he hanged himself up on a tree in a place called Koso."
"It must have been hard... Sorry again."
"Yeah...." There is a slight silence between the two of them. Then, Oya breaks the silence. "Tell me more about this place."
"..."
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A faint woosh passes the carriage in which Eve sleeps. Unknown to Eve someone was watching her from outside. Just then, Eve wakes up instantly sensing the person.
The horses neigh and the loud crashing of objects attracts Oya and Ayao. They rush down to see who it is that is making so much noise, when they got outside they saw that is was Eve fighting off a bandit. The bandit had killed their horses, Eve had been injured by the bandits' knife and bleeding.
The two run to her rescue. Oya gets her away from the bandit. The bandit took a moment to observe the three of them; to be sure he was attacking the right people he was assigned to assault, after he had observed them, he run straight into the forest. Ayao ran after him just a short mile away from the house. She was not willing to let this man go. She grabbed her weapon and aimed it at the bandit. She got the crossbow with a snake-like arrow, she released the trigger shooting the snake. The snake was able to get the target, paralyzing the bandit with the poison of the snake. Ayao went to the bandit. She asked the bandit why he had attacked Eve and why he killed their horses. The only reason was that Eve is someone precious to Oya and he was instructed to harm her so that Oya can go mad with rage, but refused to confess who told him to carry out such a mission. The poison then kills the bandit and Ayao goes back to the house. It was a good thing that Eve is safe.