"I was born in the year of the dragon, 1868. That is a 155 years to date", he answered easily.
"how could you have live that long, and still remain this strong like a youth?"
"that is the gift from your grandma," he replied.
"she did this for you, yet couldn't save herself from deteriorating from the vile infection that killed her slowly. And where were you old man?
Perhaps you were out there enjoying and testing your new found buoyance on a match younger women.
isn't that the reason why you married a another woman, and kept a mistress?"
Ruby hissed in frustrations at my blunt angry explosion as though she was the one those words were directed at.
"and how dare oh kuga. How dare you speak of things you know but little. Why judge another man by your view and understanding of things in a time and circumstances totally different from the hard choices they had to made as a couple long ago," she ended with the ferocity and pain of one who seem to share but one heart with the oldman.
"don't come to my aid, dear. Let kuga come to the truth from his own path. His path is not mine.
And the times have truly changed. Whatever choices I and your grandma had to make, it was us, and had been our choice and our decision alone, and I owe no other life an explanation.
You have your own jurney ahead of you, and there is no better teacher than that, kuga."
"why did she create Wodmax, and why are her people so interested in the company?"
"will you stop asking so many question for once and learn, the truth holistically?" Ruby enquired infuriatingly.
"the ancient days are over Ruby, I deal with facts and logic, upon which I will create my ideas, and not the other way round."
Nebulous laugh with amusement and said, "oh Sagittarius, I dare you to let go of your arrow and see where it will land.
No, you want a dry high land to shot you arrow, a dry high land packed with facts that will lead your arrow beyond the stars.
But is it not this very fact that kept you ensnared to the quagmire," he sniggered lively and relighted his regalia as Ruby refilled his cup and mine with fresh brew of the mysterious flavored tea, which was doing little to cool my nerves.
Edgy, and cynical as ever, I interrogated relentlessly, and Nebulous and Ruby seem to expect this attitude from me. they went on to feed my ravenous mind.
"Nka, is not interested in Wodmax, but what it represents. The land where its located had vast deposits of a precious mineral that is not only life saving to his kind, but a powerful healing source that nourishes and generate energy, the kind of which is a comparable to non.
It's this energy that draws Makilla to this place. to own the land, something profound must happened on it to throw people of the truth about what lays beneath," Nebulous answered the ultimate question.
"I guess that's why we are all drawn to the company. That's the only place, I really feel alive," Ruby complimented.
her statement took my mind back to the day she hugged me in the crowd at wodmax. The energy we did both felt had been real. It's in the air, it has always been. it had been magnificent...
"Ruby, what are you not telling about you and your father. I believe he got you your seat as director in Wodmax, in other words, he controls the company through you.
is he by any means, secretly mining this mineral? Is it what they are using to prepare the drugs, they ship out of the country?"
"yes kuga. Except that I don't work with my father, I work with him, he gave me the seat."
she gestured at Nebulous. "it's been on merit my dear, you've earned every bit of it…" nebulous replied to her sweetly.
"how long have you two been sneaking behind my back?"
"how have you been screwing with the pink lips at Ada?" Nebulous asked, and pressed on;
"Nka, is now kicked to the side, and is trying to find his way back in using Diana… and you brought him back into the company by giving him fifty percent shares through the same woman, after having received exclusive rights to the company by my own hands, after your advent in the ship. Can you see how you've been played now, eh, kuga?"
Ruby stared at me shocked at this revelation. I couldn't tell whether it's about the fact that I own the company or that I gave fifty percent shares to her father, or the fact that Diana played me under the sheets.
It was a whole lot to take in for one day. My mind spin into confusion.
"I didn't have no option but to give to him part of the company to save myself from the malice of the Lycan brothers and their power base…."
"a tactical decision but a hasty one none the less kuga."
"a hasty one because I have only myself to rely upon for my survival, whilst you lag in the shadows old man. I saw you in the shadows that night at Safari, smoking and doing God knows what."
"you can blame me all you want kuga, about the death of your mom and dad, along with all those innocent people, but you must know that I am her to help" he said.
"oh, I had wanted your help. but looking at it now, I found you are the cause of all this in the first place.
why come to help me now, when you could've help them first?".
I found fresh anger whirling up within me. long buried pain and memories. All this while, this man had been alive, and could've have save his own blood from perishing in a legacy or whatever..... my poor mom was blind to all this... a sweet spirit.
"Nka is not the enemy grandpa, you are." I spat to his face and stood up with my body shaking uncontrollably.
The pain felt raw, gnaw at my heart, flesh and bone marrow. I found my nose leaking with blood as my skull sparkled with a lightening followed by a thunderous migraine.
I am dying, I know. In my apparition, Nebulous image seem to shimmer like a mirage, his aura foggy like the clouds he is named after.
"come my darling, let me take you to bed. you will be fine. I will take care of you. we shall be fine…", Ruby said, but I couldn't tell from where as the darkness descend upon my soul.