The following morning,
Three figures could be sighted by the roadside of an unfrequented area, one belonged to Specter, another Rasha and the last one was Ragnar.
They were no longer in the forest, escaped through a secret tunnel Rasha had discovered during her lengthy stay in the forest.
Specter was busy cracking his neck and fingers whilst the canine and its master sat by the roadside, Rasha folding her silver-black cloak and sepulchral veil, then stored it in the oversize bag beside her. Thereafter, she took off her head wrap and undid her hair that was roughly bun-done, falling like a cascading black waterfall, down all with sheen.
Rasha's light brown skin and midnight black lock seemingly had inner glow that even when sitting under the sun, it did not hide away its bewitching sense. Not even when she screened her face with the locks which made her look like a derelict by the roadside. She was arresting unconditionally.
"Ragnar, i kept telling you facts about other things thus now that we have money, i will tell you the fact behind it too.
1-Everyone loves money
2-Money is the root of all evil
3-Money is an enemy yet a friend
4-Money evokes negative emotions
5-Money could only offer distress
6- Money could make you want to have it by fair means or foul..."
She went on with listing the mentioned facts until the very last one, she said
"100- Money is power, you have no idea how powerful money is, capable of making you sit in the cat bird seat"
Rasha made it a habit to talk to herself or anything around. Her lips seldom stayed quiet which was not as a result of loneliness, rather it could be deemed akin to something like mental suffering.
"Sitting by the roadside is the same to awaiting the authorities to come and arrest us. Did you not have a plan on mind?"
Specter asked, thinking that she had everything covered after the escape, like a car awaiting them, food and shelter. Yet from what he was seeing, it was as though she was waiting to be nabbed by the authorities.
"That, i haven't thought about it hitherto, but since you are here, i think i will shoulder the responsibility on you"
She said nonchalantly
"You can't be serious! Where i live is not just a stone's throw away where we could travel by foot"
Specter kicked the air in annoyance. Did he make a mistake by following her? He became a renegade to his bosses, a fugitive to the police and chose to come along with Rasha out of helplessness yet she was becoming the gloom and doom he was running away from, which would, without a doubt usher him to an early grave.
Her erratic behaviour was something he was struggling to cope with since the moment he started to follow her
"Believe what you want" Rasha ceased speaking to Specter and returned her focus on her animal companion. However, Specter was not done
"Listen, i am clearly your eldest brother's age, thus-"
As one does when drawing curtains to look outside, similarly, Rasha did so with her locks, taking a dekko at specter and cut in saying
"I don't have an elder brother unless you want to be one, yet unfortunately you are not qualified for that. Hence for the very last time, lower your tone when speaking to me because i am your boss from now onward, unless you want my dagger to threaten the skin around your neck"
Specter burst out laughing as if she and her words were ridiculous, he shouted in the highest possible tone of voice,
"Damn Maiden Houdini! But she does not scare me at all" -Specter
"Oh! Borrowing the tiger's fierceness" Rasha stood up.