Ejii won’t talk about it much. All she’ll say was that he took her to a place of light, darkness, vegetation, and death. She doesn’t know if she was alive or dead. “After a while, does that even matter anymore?” she asked. I think it does. Even if you’re Ejii Ugabe, she who keeps dying and being reborn, life isn’t the same as death.
It was Arif who saved Ejii. While in the place the chief had taken them, the astral plane, spirit world, the wilderness, hell, whatever you want to call it, the stupid chief made a grand error. Still bloated on his arrogance, he “fed” her to the only one who could save her. The great shadow that was Arif. Allah bless Arif. God save me, now.
We’ve left Atlantis. Dieuri and Makeda remained there. Dieuri said he had other experiments to do. I didn’t like the sound of that, but who am I to stop him? The Earth may be better off—the chief and his people had been able to do some good, putting out fires, encouraging forests, and so on—but it still suffers in places. It is still warming. We still have spontaneous forests and Aejejs. There may be more truly corrupted Changed Ones. All is not solved. But for the time, we left.
After talking that night, me, Ejii, Lifted, and Fadio, we decided on one thing. To find Gambo. I think it had something to do with me, but as I’ve told this story, I’m not so sure anymore. Was this when they decided to instead take me prisoner? Is this when Kola turned on me? I cannot remember now. It’s been about a month. That I know. I know that I am seventeen years old. I know that I feel that the longer they keep me in captivity, the stronger the wind in my mind gets.
Only I know where Gambo is. I don’t know what they think they will gain from holding me prisoner.
End of Dikéogu Audio File Series
Dikéogu Audio File Series
ended April 28, 2074
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