Diamond In The Forest

Episode 4

“otito (is okay) is not Nike’s
fault…is her mother…iyawo
babai koirira iya re (your step
mother hates your mother)
oburu gan (she is very wicked)
I pray to the gods to guide you
because history is about to
repeat itself but in a total
different way, whatever a man
sow so sha he repe. God will
judge

They kept talking until they
finished gathering the
firewood, Remi tired it up and
carried it to her grandma’s hut,
she set the fire before coming
to meet the grandma who was
seated outside the hut
“What do you want to cook, let
me help you and prepare it
“egusi ati eba ( melon soup
with cassava meal) check inside
the basket that is hanged over
the fire place you will see
everything in there and
remember to tell your mother
to give you some fufu (cassava
meal) so that you can bring for
me, I like the way she prepares
her fufu, I don’t have strength
this days to make mine, maybe
whenever you are free you can
come and help me prepare
mine, I just finished the last
one you made for me with
ewedu soup
After Remi finished cooking she
ate with her grandma before
returning back to her house
She thought of what her grand
mother had said earlier while
she lay at her mat in the night,
she wondered what she meant
by history was about to repeat
itself but in a different way,
Remi thought of Leja being a
guard and her grandfather was
also a guard before he became
a hunter, does it mean she will
end up with Leja who she
doesn’t feel anything for, the
prince ones fell for her
grandmother but she was
already betrothed to be
married,

“but the prince doesn’t even
know if I exist, he doesn’t
know me, even if he does am
only a commoner, there’s
nothing to my name, the
Prince has his league and class
of royal women, I don’t belong
and I’m comfortable in my
world, somebody like me can
not even get close to him,
there are other good dancers
among the maidens of the land
not just me” Remi thought
within herself

She knows her grandmother
has some strange power and
she usually say things she
doesn’t understand, she is
believed to be a diviner, she
was close to her grandmother
than her mother, all the things
she said rings in her ear that
night until she fell asleep.
The following morning Leja
and his guard came to inform
her that she was chosen to be
the princess personal maid and
Nike was among the four girls
chosen to work for the princess
in the palace, but Remi was
going to be her personal maid
which makes her higher than
the other maidens, she will
serve the princess for three
years and also live in the
palace for this period of time.
The prince asked Leja about
the strange beautiful girl that
caught his attention but Leja
did not give much details to
him, he was not happy that the
Prince has eye for Remi, the
beautiful maiden that he loves,
He will do anything to make
sure the Prince will not have
her, Remi was coming to live in
the palace he wondered how
he will prevent her from seeing
the Prince, he wanted to have
Remi all to himself and doesn’t
want anybody competing with
him on that, not even the
Prince.

The Prince hard that the young
maiden that caught his
attention has being picked to
become his sister’s personal
maid, he was already thinking
of how he will see her again
until the news broke out, the
prince was really happy as he
looked forward to having Remi
all to himself.