Chapter Fourteen: The passing

Yemi was going through the emails he received from his editor. He knew Cara well enough to know she was already agitated with him not completing his latest book. He could almost hear her angry voice through the mail she had sent and was about to reply when he felt the sudden intrusion and revelation.

Knowing Ayooni's tendency to feel weak after a revelation, he ran to the boardroom to check on how she was faring, only to be greeted by Emman, who was gathering her in his arms to a nearby chair. Irked by his lack of tact, he walked up to them, pretending he wasn't bothered by another man touching her. Hi Ems, how is she holding up? He said, kneeling, please, get her a cup of water he instructed Emman.

Hello! Kitten, he said, smiling up at her. She blushed and tried miserably to mask it from him. She never likes it when Emman calls her that, but for some reason, Yemi calling her a kitten makes her stomach flutter. Why are you here? She asked him. I thought you said you wanted to go through Cara's raging emails.

I went through it and couldn't reply because your people showed the path. We found the King he said, yeah, we did. Unable to contain her excitement, she leapt into his arms. Finally, she said. Yemi stroked her back happily, and finally, he replied. He eased her back reluctantly on the chair when he heard Emman's footstep behind them, have some water before he lectures us on lack of discipline, he said, making her smile. Here take a sip Emman handed her the glass. I called the rest.

They followed the path they saw. The path led them to the main entrance of the mountain. We have been here before Ayooni said to Yemi, who looked surprised. Yes, on the day you arrived here. Do you have markings with you? He asked her. Yes, she took out the sketches she made from the mountain. She had been trying for weeks to know what it meant but couldn't find anything on it.

Engrossed in her thoughts, she walked the mountain like she knew the place in her mind and stopped in front of the markings, we are here, she said without looking up. Yemi walked up to her what do you see? He asked, looking at the markings on the wall. Suddenly the markings became clearer. These are questions to be answered, he said abruptly.

Ayooni looked up from her book, seeing that she could read the markings. It is a riddle, "Many are am I, brothers we are. Single, am I? Sisters, we are not. My path leads to yours. Our path leads to it without one we lead nowhere". This is harder than I thought, Yemi muttered. Family, the door opens for family.

He joined his hand with Ayooni, and the rest followed suit "Brothers we are and families we will be, with a tap ( he knocked on the sign) we asked for the door to open, sisters we are not, lovers we will be, with a tap ( he knocks again) we asked for the door to open, without one we lead nowhere with family our road is clearer, with a tap ( he knocks on the sign) we asked for the door to open".

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Got me there son of man, she comes through, she comes strong, my wait is over, my love is here.