A Stranger in Deep Bite

"Sochikaima! Sochi..." Me Daemon called out, running out of the thick woods towards a little hut that was built of bamboo sticks and dried grasses. He ran out with a fully grown dead antelope hanging on his neck, he clad himself with the skin of a leopard, he was apparently a hunter, as he had with him a bow and arrows which he stocked up in a little bag made of python skin, he ran barefooted as he called on the name, Sochikaima who also ran out of the hut with a leopard skin also tied around her waist and also tied to the back of her neck so that her breast was covered but he back all opened. She ran out with two lovely-looking kids with her, a boy and a girl, with the girl apparently looking older than the little boy who could barely walk normally.

"My husband, you are back. Oh! May the gods be praised, you caught an antelope today. Hmmm... Dinta my husband, you are indeed the best hunter in the whole of this community." So the lady said as she hugged him.

"Hmm... If you know any man by the name Dinta, then you will know that I am related to you." So said Mr Daemon when he finally returned from his memory trip.

Now, the lady in Mr Daemon's memory was obviously Precious, but the timing was pretty odd and long.

"Dinta? I am definitely sure that I know nobody by such a name, so tell me, how did you know my name, tell me, because you are beginning to scare me." Precious mumbled. Now the man turned to Love who already had started to feel out of place.

"Please forgive my manners, you are?" He whispered to her most politely, but something else happened no one perceived, as soon as their hands met, it was almost like Love saw a vision of an eclipse. Total darkness, that was what she saw and his hand was so cold like one out of the refrigerator. She quickly withdrew her hand from him and gave him a probing look. She stared at him deep in the eyes and she saw something still unexplainable. It was like like a crimson sun, only that the sun was not as bright as it was supposed to be, probably because the sun was bleeding heavily. It was like a river of blood gushing out from the dept of the sun, making it look like it was a volcanic eruption since the blood was even flowing down through a massive mountain.

"What are you!" She raised a question and still looked all puzzled. At this moment she started drawing backwards with her hand on her friend's hand. She held Jasmine so tight as she drew backwards. At this Precious, even Mr Daemon by himself was also dazed, but he managed to keep his expression clean from any emotion.

"I said, what... Are... You?" She asked again still dragging her friend with her, Precious who would have preferred to stay a little longer to understand how the strange man knew her name in the first place actually strived to emancipate herself from her friend's grip but Love never gave her a chance, instead, she turned around, picked their bags and ran off, she ran still dragging Precious with her.

"Precious, you girls have not paid me." So said the owner of the barbecue joint as he saw them running out of the joint at speed.

"We will see you tomorrow sir." So Love said. She seemed so terrified by what she had seen in the strange man.

Well, Precious and her friends were no strangers to Deep Bite Barbecue Joint, they were for a fact one of its most patronizing customers, so the owner of the joint was never disturbed when he saw them leaving, especially after he had been told that they will see him the next day.

Now Love and Precious trotted their strides down the road of Rossville that night under the vigilant gazes of the full moon, as usual, just like every full moon, the bizarre howling of mysterious animals kept wailing from the faraway woodland, distinct sounds were apparently given rise to. These sounds were what kept the legend healthier, the legend and myths of the forests being infested by metaphysical creatures.

"Hey, hey, hey! Please, tell me, tell me what is going on here, why are you dragging me this way? Tell me please, what is the problem, just see the way you embarrassed me over there." Precious said as she finally yanked her hands out from her friend's. Now, Love took a pause looking at her friend, she stood there for quite a while without saying a word or making any move.

"What is your problem? Don't start your witchy behaviour again. You know how much that creeps me out." Precious said, but it seemed like she just got her attention by calling her behaviour that of a witch.

"My dear, did you remember when I was telling you of recent? What if I shake hands with any stranger, that I will see his or her past? Do you remember that?" Love asked with her eyes still planted in her friend's eyes.

"Hmm... Of course, I do, it's not like I have got a short memory." Precious responded.

"Ok good., you see that man? That man called himself Daemon. He has no past, it is either he has no past or his past. Look, it is either he has no past at all, or he had stopped having any past for a very long time... I don't know if you understand." Love asserted.

"Understand what? I understood nothing, please speak English, I do not understand witchcraft." Precious responded.

"Will you stop this? I am not a witch! I don't like it, I am serious." ShAechallenged her friend Precious, Love never for once like to be called a witch, her grandmother was almost burnt alive because the village suspected her to be a witch.

"My dear, if you don't want it, you have better stop behaving like one." Precious said to her, regardless of how she might be feeling at the moment, why should she even care? She was also unhappy that she was been hauled out from a conversation with an extremely hot lad who surprisingly knew her. And she couldn't even get to know how he knew her because her friend had some crazy suspicions.

"You know what? You may go to your handsome devil from where ever darkness that he is from, as for me, I am leaving this place, that man creeps the hell out of me." Love declared as she left Precious on the roadside.

I believe you can locate your way home from here. I won't have to escort you today, since I am a witch, I might eat you on the way."

Love asserted but in anger as she left Precious standing like one stranded kid, she took the route on the right which actually led to her own house. Normally, she and Lionheart will escort Precious across the little stream which often gives her this great fear. According to Precious, she believes that someone is always gawking at her when she passes there.