Agbaja's body were filled with blood,the room he was detained were like an oven,hot even in the harmattan. He had been tortured severely ever since he tried to escape. Maybe because he hurt Jaguar,one of the Kidnappers or maybe because he was stubborn enough to be pulled in the bush.
Agbaja's bravery isn't a cloud of one colour. They battled enormously to get him back to the den.
At first he reached for a stream near the damn and had entered to swim across it. He reached the middle of the stream before one of the Kidnappers sighted his head and they started to cover up places he will possibly traverse to make through the stream.
Agbaja is a good swimmers,His so called father's village were he had grown up,is a riverine area,which in the rainy seasons, you can't move to anywhere without passing a stream.
He dashed out of the stream through a bush part instead of reaching the shores where the Kidnappers had already mounted but unfortunately for him,they had surrounded the stream because they are many. The first person to reach for him was Da Tallest, the tallest among the Kidnappers which gave him the name Da Tallest. He tried to held Agbaja's hand but he kicked him with his right feet and tallest staggered and had braced the ground for a moment. Agbaja made into the forest again and this time, confused of his whereabout. Another fellow reached to get him but he ran on him from a hideout and hit him with a huge log of wood. Similar to the one he wanted to use on the python. And the kidnapper passed away. He ran into a tick covered tree,not knowing that it's part of the Kidnappers den till he was surrounded again by the Kidnappers and were taken back and was locked in the tarted hell-like den.
His faces has swollen up and his body were disgusting. The last time he was taken out of the room was when he was served breakfast of the same Akpu and Ogbono.This time he won't refuse because it's the only hope of his little life. He ate up and was taken back and was locked in the room for the whole day.
Three days had passed and Agbaja hadn't seen the sun,they refused to take him outside to feed him, instead they will throw a bread at him through a tiny vent in the room. He took them as his predicaments,a tortured life.
The teenage life others were enjoying, became a hell for him. The moon gives others light but his moon shines a bright darkness.
Jaguar entered the room and he had stood at a point and had glared at him for three minutes or more maybe.
"you think you are wise huh? you think you are wise? Very good." he said and Agbaja can't help but only glare.
"I will make sure that your body parts make enough millions for me!, I will make you die slowly and painfully." he added and he left.
Agbaja knew that his case has ended. But he knew that things will be better when he ends them early, than to live and be fighting death each day of the moon. A two times worse after a worse one. Hell.
He thought about the girl that was kept outside the den. How many times they must have raped him. How she's surviving. The last time they took him out for breakfast,She had said something to him which he neither replied nor heard. He wished he did and he thought of a way to go outside again and ask her what she had said to him that yellow morning. maybe he may had understood her or maybe not. What does she speak? maybe not English. Maybe.
Agbaja glared at the window and saw the girl laying on a wood with her eyes closed. He noticed her belly moving up and down so he regained hope that she's not dead, rather, she's sleeping. He imagined her beauty,the first time he's privileged to see a lady in such a full range.
Her buba was clean and her ornament were like that of the noble ones.
Something crawled past his leg,he look down and it's a millipede. he won't do anything cause he was tied down to the wood he was seated. His eyeballs followed the millipede to the corner of the room,it crawled over something that seems like an iron. He glared closed at green metallic object, it's an old zinc particle. He thought of what to do. How to get it. He stretched his leg and fortunately, it's long enough to get the zinc and he used his feet to drew it closer, it was clever enough,the feet,to put the zinc in his palms which was tied aback. And he chops the rope slowly.