Babida the lumberjack had now stayed three days in his room and never left it once.
He scrupulously followed the prescription from Doctor Dabo and was now feeling in form.
It was thus time to finally start his new duties as Governor of the province of Okunde.
He geared up and dressed nicely in a brand new military uniform, then left his room accompanied by a young sentinel of his close-knit guard.
He reached the doorstep of his new office and had sad memories of the last time he stepped out of it and landed in the cell of the underground.
Indeed the bureau that the woodsman was about to occupy had had as tenant before him one of the most devoted statemen of the Batang empire, the late Governor Kola II.
However, the former tenant had thrown the lumberjack in jail out of anger. Babida had failed to clearly explain to the late Governor how a scout mission in the forbidden mountain that the latter had entrusted to him, capsized.
