"hello, yes speaking. what? when? where is he right now?, identify the body?" yildiz fell down
"what is it, yildiz, who was on the line?" Kofi asked screaming, Luke and Randy were in the throne room, they came running
"she got a call then just collapsed, call the number please randy" Kofi said
randy called that number and they told him the same thing, he put his hands on his head, and just let it out
"what is it?" Luke asked him
"my son is dead, we are asked to come to the scene to identify his body" he said, Kofi and Luke joined in the crying, the seer walked in enchanting
"stand up my king, time is not in our hands" he said, Randy stood up, Luke followed them, they went to the scene, Roman was laying there lifeless, there were a few people on the scene, they left when they realized it was the prince, when they saw the king
"who called you?" Luke asked
"a female did, he's still hot, we found him panting but now he's no more" the paramedic said
"may you please give us some privacy?" he seer asked
"we are afraid not sir, we need to take this body to the morgue" the medic
"we will take the body to the morgue ourselves, our own morgue not your public morgue, this man lying here is the prince of this kingdom" Luke said
"we know, but we are doing our job here, yours is to identify him so we can proceed with our jobs" he said again, by the time he was done fighting with Luke, Randy and the seer took Roman to their car, they called Luke, he ran to the car, they drove to the graves, they put him besides his great grandfather's grave
"is it time?" the seer kept asking the question
he nodded as though someone was talking to him, then he took the soil on the ground, opened his mouth and fed him the soil, there's a stream in the yard, he went to fetch water from there then also poured in his mouth, the soil and the water slowly moved to his throat, it got stuck there.
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"I told you I needed your soul, look at you, laying there dead, but living here with me, I'm going to take this soul of yours to speak life to my son's dead body, you will live through him, don't worry, I will live you, I will spoil you, and I'll find you a perfect wife" she said and laughed
suddenly the soul couldn't talk anymore, the soil stuck on his throat choking him
"what is it?" she panicked, she had never seen something like this before, she then went to her car to look for something, by the time she left, it was the time the seer spoke to Roman
"spit it out on her face, spit the mud out on her face, and leave, return to your body, my prince, the great warthog, the future of this kingdom, spit it out on her face and return to your body" the seer said
Roman was stuck on the chair he was in, he was tied up, so he had to wait for her to come back, when she came, she got very close, Roman then spit the mud to her face, she fell down, she then changed into the old woman she is, very old and powerless, she couldn't stand on her own, she can't see clearly, she can't talk clearly, she's shaking and her skin is so shrieked, she lived over 150 years feeding on innocent souls.
"return to your body" the seer said, Roman tried but failed
"you will never escape, you are tied here until I'm leaving with with you," her old voice said, echoing in the seers ears
"no, you will never leave with him, he will return to his body, oh his soul dies, and you will die in there alone old hag" the seer said
"I'm not easy to kill" she said her voice so unclear
"yes you are, you are too old to fight me, try to fight this" the seer then mixed the mud and this time mixed it with some of his herbs, told Roman to spit it out to her direction, he did and the mixture hid her on her chest since she was a bit closer, she then fell down, suddenly she started coughing and bleeding from her mouth
"kill me but you will never have your son back" she said in pain
"Roman fight, untie yourself and return to your body" the seer said, Roman tried too hard, he got tired
"kill my soul" Roman said "I've tried but I can't, kill my soul please" he said, the woman screamed
"no, you're mine, she got closer to Roman trying to open her mouth up to swallow him the same way she brought him here, but this time, Roman was very hard to be swallowed, she got frustrated, she sat down to rest
Roman was tied on a chair, his feet were free, only his hands, so he stood up, hit the chair on the wall until it broke, his hands then were free, he used the sticks to hit that old woman
"if you kill me, your soul will roam around, you will suffer" she said practically begging him not to kill her
"return to your body my prince, leave her to me" the seer said, but Roman hit her one more time, she fainted, he burned the house down then returned to his body
he coughed out the mud in his mouth, his body was badly injured not to take him to the hospital, so the seer used herbs on his body then they called an ambulance, he got admitted
he was in coma for three weeks, then woke up.
during that three weeks, Afet's father was called in the hospital to come see her daughter, he was very happy to find her as healthy as he always wished she could be, very fit, not as thin as the old afet was.
he flew to South Africa to come to show them the real Afet, unfortunately Roman is in the hospital, so they went to visit him there, Roman's parents, Luke, Kofi and their son, along with afet and her father.
"hello" Roman greeted when he woke up to so many eyes looking at him
"my son" yildiz hugged him
"I'm fine mom" he said
"look who we got here" she said pointing at afet
"who?" he asked
"the real Afet" she said
Roman's eyes got fixed on her, studying her, and she's nothing like the afet he knew, that afet was thinner, with shorter hair, lighter than this afet, but this one, is more beautiful, afet smiled, wow her teeth, her smile, he kept looking at her until Afet's father cleared his throat, they all laughed
"nice to meet you" he said
"nice to meet you too" she said, her voice so smooth, she spoke like a baby and very slow.
Roman spent one more week in the hospital, then he was out.
"did that house burn?" he asked
"yes, she died in there, wait let me bring you an article I read in the news" his father went to fetch his tablet and handed it to him
the article read "one of the most wealthiest families in the world, the Batchuu family have lost one of their own, a mother, and it had been said that the heir died so many years ago, but was kept in the house for all those years, so the only surviving person selin will face death sentence for defeating the end of justice" that was the first article
"in the Batchuu house we found human bones and blood in their bath tubs, there were also bottles filled with air, it was discovered that they might have been in rituals" there were more of them.
"I'm glad" Roman said, Randy then laughed
"you almost died, I can't believe this" Randy said
"and you're laughing" Roman said also laughing "I've learned my lesson, but dad I need to talk to afet and her father, they need to know something" he said
"it's good, they're coming over for dinner" he said, Roman then went to sleep, he woke up around five to bath, he wore his semi formal clothes, then walked down for dinner.
"geez uncle Luke you're still here?" Roman asked
"we came for dinner bloody fool" Luke said, they laughed.
they had dinner in light conversations, when they had dessert that's when Roman told then what the old woman told him.
"so are you telling us that the woman is the great, great great grandmother?" Afet's father asked
"yes, Afet's mother's great grandmother" Roman said
"wow" afet just said
"she said she tried to feed on your soul but she failed, she's the one that led you to that Indian seer so she can help her, but they failed, so she made afet week, and useless, that's her own words, she also said that she was born in royalty, but her mother was chased out, they lived in the streets until her mother died, she passed her magic to her, she used it to lure rich men her way, then killed sacrifice then for money rituals, you and Afet's mother were in live, she couldn't kill you because she lived selin and didn't want to hurt her, but she had to separate you guys" Roman told them everything
"thank you for the information my prince, I think afet and I have closure now" he said.
"so can you work here?" Roman asked afet
"I'm not educated my prince, I used to attend ABET but then I got so ill and was hospitalized, I'll continue with my studied again next year" she said, very slow and soflty