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EPISODE FOURTEEN
“Jesus!” Debby screamed out of her sleep. Charity who was fast asleep didn’t make a move.
“Jesus….what did I just see in my dream?” Debby whispered as she recalled being chased by a masquerade. She tried running and was almost escaping when a wall from nowhere blocked her path.
The masquerade laughed in victory and dealt with her before she woke up.
“This isn’t the first time I’m having this kind of dream. I’ve had something similar before, but what does this mean?” She thought to herself.
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Early the same morning, Charity was up and preparing for the day’s work. When she was almost done preparing and had 15mins to leave the house, she walked into the room to speak with Debby who kept responding feverishly.
“What’s wrong? Are you down with malaria or something?” Charity asked concerned as Debby nodded weakly
“Chai….sorry you hear. Anyway I’m on my way to work now and I might come home late- you know how Mondays are now.
I’ve kept breakfast for you….in case you want to eat this morning.” Charity said
“Okay….thank you.” Debby said in more like a whisper and Charity grew concerned at this point.
“Babe you’re not okay at all. What is wrong with you?” Charity said, giving her her full attention this time by sitting beside her and feeling her body temperature.
“I don’t know. I had a very bad dream before I woke up this morning and it’s not the first time.” Debby said.
“What dream?” Charity asked and Debby narrated the dream to her.
“Hmm…. masquerade? I don’t know, did you have anything to do with masquerade in the past of what? Or wait….was your father once a masquerade or something?” Charity asked investigatively as Debby felt amused.
“What kind of……what kind of question is that Charity? What has my dad got to do with my dream?” Debby asked, coughing in-between.
“It has things to do with it o. According to what I’ve been learning from church, what your father or grandfather has done in the past can affect your present life, especially when he has a covenant that involves his descendants.
For example, if your dad or grandad had a covenant that his descendants would unfailing serve a particular god, that god would come for you and frustrate you in your marital life, academic life, work life and in your dreams until you align to the covenant made by someone in your lineage and serve such.” Charity explained and at this point Debby started coughing. This made Charity rush to the fridge in the kitchen to fetch water for her.
“Thank you.” Debby said as soon as she was done drinking.
“Won’t you go to work? It’s past 7 already and you need to leave early to catch a bus.”
“Life first before work. Let’s talk about your health first. Plus I can just call my boss right now and ask for a day off or something. It’s no big deal.” Charity said and Debby gave a light smile.
“Yes it’s a big deal. I don’t want you giving a lackadaisical attitude towards work on a Monday. Start going already before you arrive late for work. I’ll be fine.” Debby said and Charity stared at her to be sure she heard right.
“I’m serious. You don’t have to worry about me, I’ll be fine. Plus the angels would do a good job in taking care of me, so go.” Debby urged her.
“Hmmm….okay then. Please take it easy okay. You don’t need to do anything around the house; anything chore can wait till I’m back please.” Charity said and Debby nodded.
As soon as Charity left, Debby decided to take a shower to see if that’d help her feel better.
Her thoughts were filled with scary and unrealistic things all through the time she was in the bathroom, especially when she closed her eyes.
“Jesus what is happening to me?” She whispered to herself as she laid back on her bed, still feeling very weak.
Few hours later, she got up from bed and realized she had slept off.
“And it’s afternoon already.” She said with a sigh as she took the breakfast Charity had kept for her to eat.
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Mama was selling in the market when she felt a nudge to pray. She immediately handed over her shop to her sales girl and went into the inner room to obey. Since she had no idea of what to pray about, she decided to pray in tongues.
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Debby sat on a stool in the kitchen to make zobo. She saw the leaves Charity had kept to prepare them and decided to keep herself busy with it, since its preparation wasn’t a stressful process. She bent down to drop the bottle she had filled when she began to feel seriously dizzy.
She tried maintaining balance but fell down instead.
“Jesus Christ, what’s happening to me?!” She said panting. At this point, fear had gripped her completely.
All of a sudden, she began hearing voices so loud and tangible but with no one in sight.
The more afraid she was, the louder the voices she heard.
When it seemed the voices had fizzled out, her body began convulsing. This made her scream loudly and pass out.
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Charity felt uneasy where she was seated in her office. She initially ignored what she felt but its persistence made her give the uneasiness attention.
“Something is wrong somewhere, what could that be?” She reasoned within. After few minutes a thought flashed through her mind and she decided to call Debby to see how she was faring.
“Why isn’t she picking up her call kwanu? Is she sleeping?” She thought within and got back to work.
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“Jesus! Babe!” Charity called out and rushed to Debby immediately she walked into the kitchen.
She saw a red liquid spilled on the floor. This made her anxious and scared but she grew calm on discovering it was zobo that got spilled and not blood as she initially thought.
“But I asked her not to do anything now. What kind of trouble is this one kwan?” Charity thought aloud and paced around, confused on what to do.
“Why you panicking over nothing? Just tap her, she’s awake already.” A voice within spoke to her and she did so. Debby responded like a normal person who was being tapped to wake up fromsleep.
“Where am I?” Debby asked, trying to recall what had happened to her.
“In the kitchen. You were trying to prepare zobo and you probably tripped or something.” Charity responded. She had wanted to scold and ask why she would enter kitchen when she knew she wasn’t feeling fine, but decided to swallow it.
“Charity…..” Debby called out.
“Yes I’m here. What is it?”
“Chief…..”
“Chief? Wait, who’s this Chief you’re always…..” Charity was about asking when a call came in.
“Hello Ma.”
“Hello Charity dear, how are you?”
“I’m doing well, thank you Ma.”
“Can I speak with my daughter, please?”
“Okay Ma.” She said and handed over the phone to Debby.
“Hello mummy.” Debby said, trying so hard to maintain a good voice so her mom wouldn’t suspect anything was wrong with her.
“Hello dear, how are you doing today?”
“I’m fine Ma.”
“You sound dull. Is something wrong?”
“No Ma I’m fine. I just woke up from sleep that’s why.”
“Oh okay. I just wanted to hear your voice and also inform you you’d soon come over here.”
“Over where?”
“What do you mean by over where? Wouldn’t you love to see you mother again?”
“No…. I mean yes but what would I be coming over to do? I’m okay here with Charity.”
“Yes dear, I know. But I want you here so you can have easy access to a mentor.”
“A mentor? What for?” Debby asked as her mother chuckled to her hearing.
“Deborah remember you’re new in the faith and are still a baby in Christ. You need to be fed steadily and guided by an adult so you wouldn’t be moved here and there by strange doctrines.”
“Hmmm okay but Charity can play that role perfectly, right?”
“Hmmmm…..well, maybe.”
“Yeah so I don’t need to come home because I want to be mentored.”
“Okay then, if you say so.”
“Yes Ma.”
“I hope you’re having a nice time with Charity over there, and you’re fine too.”
“Yes Ma. Charity is doing a wonderful job in taking care of me and feeding me daily with the Scriptures.”
“Okay, give the phone back to her let me speak with her.”
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At 11pm the same day, Charity and Debby were on their bed in their room gisting.
“So in less than an hour we should be praying, right?” Debby asked.
“Yeah sure. There’s even a book I bought today I’d like us to read after prayers.”
“Oh really, what is it about?” Debby asked and Charity began narrating the little she knew about the book.
As Debby was listening attentively, she began to feel very dizzy. Charity talking in front of her seemed like she had been split into two.
“Babe……I feel off.” She called Charity’s attention.
“Off? Off as how?” Charity asked and it was then she observed closely to notice her friend was sweating profusely.
“Debby what is wrong with you?” Charity asked and rushed to her.
“I….I don’t…..under….. understand.” She said in-between serious hiccups.
“Shhh shhh…..stop talking already.” Charity cautioned and just then her body started shaking vigorously.
“Jesus…..Debby what is it nwww…..God please have mercy.” Charity said, seriously panicking
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