Chapter Seven: Welcome Back to Anka

Memories and grief were part factors that made Ayooni push harder than she always did. Cassandra wasn't the only one who died that day, someone else did and she could feel it, and so does Yemi. Now she is back here hoping to find the truth about the past and how she came to fit in all this.

She stood with her friends at the foot of the mountain waiting for the truck that was supposed to pick them up. She wasn't even sure if she was ready to meet the ghost of her dear friend at the top of that mountain. She then heard the roar of the engine and look up but her vision was blurry, the ground shook underneath and she felt herself move.

Life and death, love and hatred, truth, lies, deceit, envy, betrayal, jealousy and anger are the foundation of what is beyond. Nature itself has a way of pulling us in all and in none that's how my story came to be before I was born or was I born so the story that was written can be?

The most important of this sequel is the one who holds the heart and created the life. A wheel of time, a wheel in time, a written prose and a spoken phrase. My life is neither on a ball nor in a line but the one who holds my hand has been ordained a choice cannot be preordained yet he holds me as I hold thy sisters and he holds me as I hold thy brothers. In us, they are awakened and in us, they rise. It is time to unravel and time to make the choice.

She opened her eyes and saw him standing there and staring at her awestruck. wow, that was epic, he said to her and held her because she was swaying.

You won't vanish into thin air again, right? He asked but she was too stunned to see him. Wh.. it was that she said to him, where are we, I don't know either, how did you get here, he asked her looking around. This looks like a cave except it's not.

I was standing at the foot of the mountain with my friends when I heard the roar of the car, this is Anka right, she said trying to adjust to the light in the cave. Now he looked stunned, you are in Anka? the foot.. oh I was supposed to pick the expert Archeologist and her friends are you the one? Ayooni Williams? I am Ayooni, she said to him, why are you picking me up?

This is cool, come, let's find a way out of here and then talk, I am Yemi by the way, I guess you know my name from our past meetings, he said cheerfully, your friends should be safe, my friends will take care of them so don't worry.

They walked out of the open space taking in every detail they saw and symbol, Ayooni picked a book and a pencil from her backpack and sketch what she could, these symbols lay intricately over each other, they look alien yet familiar to them when they got to the mouth of the mountain, they heard a voice. Welcome back it said to them.