Chapter 154: The Blind Man

So, with that which mom already told against giving alms to beggars, I neglected the man who tried to grab me, I ignore him and went into the shop where I got all that I wished to buy. When I was done, I took the goodies to the cashier for payment, but there again I found the lady who was staring at me strangely earlier. When I saw her sitting at the cashier's seat, I was shocked, I wondered what she was doing there. Even in there, she started again to stare at me without any word coming out of her mouth. 

"Hello? You work here right? Give me my bill."

This was what I said to her but she aired no words to me. A few minutes later, we were still staring at each other until the real cashier came, she was not happy to find the lady who had been sitting in her seat and staring at me.

"Hello? What are doing in my seat madam?"

The real cashier asked and the lady just stood up and left without airing a word to her. It was only after she left that I could pay for my groceries, after the payment I quickly walked out of the supermarket to go home, but it seemed like the bling man had been waiting for me all the while at the gate. When I came out of the supermarket, I got the shock of my life, as soon as I step my feet outside the gate, the blind man grabbed me, he held me so tight, I tried to break out of his grip but it wasn't that easy, the blind man really have a strong grip, thew was nothing I did that gave me access to freedom from the man.

"Prince Damian, prince Damian."

The man called.

"Please listen to me before you pass by. These are words for you before you pass by my prince, but instead of just listening to me I want you to hear me, please hear this blind and frail voice of mine, for it is very important."

The man added, hearing him say this, I calmed down, I became inquisitive, wanting to hear what he had to say to me, I seriously grew the urge to hear the message which he said was of great importance.

"Like letters eaten by termites, so are my words, this I really know. But I still want you to listen and hear me. Lend me your ear, my princely friend. Hear me first my prince, the prince of the great nation, the prince of the great Atlantis. Yes, Atlantis is our almost rubbed-out origin. It flits between two sprays of leaves, Illuminating the light of your powers which you are yet recognized. They are coming for you, their eyes are all over, watching you, you must have seen that woman in black, run from her, she must not know your house. Now listen to this faint voice, this is the words of your ancestors in my tongue. Their whisper rises from beneath the stone sea to fuse into unison with my thoughts, I can see them, they are all happy with you, but they fear for you. The destiny of the entire Atlantis rests on your shoulder, you must not fail."

So the man said. I was actually shocked at the strength of the language that the old blind spoke to.

"Old man, what failure are you talking about sit, I cannot fail if I had no taste before me."

I responded as his word only confused me, he spoke in riddles, and I was so confused to be able to crack any riddle not to say once with such strength.

"A human you are as yet, but a full merman you shall be and soon, so you can take that which truly belong to you, and when you are given the mantle, you will do well not to give up the fight for the fate of the entire Atlantic ocean rest on your palm."

So he said.

"May your intentions be like unto the Sun! Know that fear is a threshold where your quest will break in your hand, Imperceptibly, as you will fight to destroy the enemies of your father, the dark mer-nation from the Bermuda triangle. And soon your glorious name will untangle from the hidden, so you will become the great merman of the Atlantis, the watcher of the sea. And for those who seek to take the throne of your father, in your hands, they shall be destroyed. Their source of water shall dry and their nakedness shall be visible for the sons and daughter of the land to see them naked."

So the man said and all of a sudden, he left me and started talking like he wasn't the one who had been talking to me since. He started begging me for alms all of a sudden.

"Please Sir, help me, help me with a naira, any amount please."

The man said now was so dumbfounded, but he ha but why was she shocked I knew not what to do or say, the man had already let go of me, yet I can't go, his words were so sharp as they had pierced deep into me. Now i could not help but deep my hand in my wallet to give him a hundred naira note. Then I started walking home, I walked without minding the sun or dust this time, all I cared was what the man said to me.