Episode 18
Beginning of Nemesis
RECAP ?
Millson saw miss Bansah lying on the ground hurt. He took her to the herbalist and she eventually recovered in a hospital.
Later on , Millson himself felt sick and was nurtured back to life by miss Bansah. Those two incidences caused them to come more closer to each other.
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[Dzifa’s Viewpoint ]
Do you know what really surprised me? Despite our deadly attack on miss Bansah, she still remained clinched to Millson like a tick. Slyvia was right. She told the group that day in the isolated hut the moment we attacked Bansah , Millson’s attention would be drawn to her. He would want to help her recover. He would console her ,
sympathise with her and through his efforts, their love will grow naturally.
I remembered Irene laughing that day and asking Slyvia “since when did you become an aficionado of love?”
Whatever the case was, the love between those two people was becoming obvious.
I summoned the girls to a meeting again to plan our next move.
Me: My friends, we are here once again because our objective have not be achieved.
Dima : What do you mean exactly?
Me: Are you a stranger in Jerusalem. Our objective was to discourage Miss Bansah from following Millson. It’s obvious we have failed. She’s still with him.
Evelyn: Were you not the one blaming me for hitting her too hard with the stone?
Vivian: Hmmm.
Irene : it’s true.
Lucy : Attacking miss Bansah was a conundrum. We have to bear the spill -over -effects
Sylvia : You and who? Didn’t I warn you against attacking her. I told you it will bring the two of them together and even make their love grow deeper. Now you see what’s happening? They are more closer than ever.
Lucy: Okay. Aficionado of love. We hear you.
Me : This is not time to complain. What is our next move?
Lucy : Let’s beat her again
Evelyn: Yes. This time I will finish my unfinished job.
Sylvia : Let’s leave them alone. I have come to realise that love is not by force. Whatever we do to these lovers will not yield the desired result.
Dima: I think you are right. After all sir Millson cannot marry all of us.
Evelyn: keep quiet, you moron. You see why I say your head is full of sand? Who is taking about marriage? We are not saying Sir Millson should marry us. We just want to feel ‘his thing’ in us and enjoy him small. Can you imagine how it will feel like if that young handsome man is digging you and you are moaning, eh, ah, give it to me, awww, my God, it’s so sweet.
It’s a once in a life time experience.
How I wish it can happen just once.
Sylvia: Hmmm. Evelyn. You are becoming obsessed with this Millson love illusion. You better stop it before something bad happens to you.
Evelyn : Be there and be talking nonsense. Who no dey like bobo?
Look at this hypocrite. You see am you no dey do?
Vivian : Shhh. Make u no vex ah ..ah.
Me: I think we should burn her house. If we do that, she will have no other option than to leave the village.
Sylvia: That’s not a nice move. If miss Bansah leave this village, Millson will follow him. Have you thought of that?
Dima: I think what you said make a lot of sense.
Evelyn: It make sense to you but if you are a deep thinker, you will notice its deficiencies. No teacher can leave his station unless he stayed there for at least three years.
Lucy : That’s true but every law has an exception.
Evelyn : ..and what is the exception in this case.love?
Lucy: No. Security. He could say his life is unsafe in this village.
Me : That’s a possibility but I still insist we burn her house. Now who’s with me on this?
As usual four of the six girls raised up their hands. We planned to strike under the cover of darkness.
~11.30 P.m~
It’s time to strike. I meet the four girls and we planned our route and the role everyone of the girls would play in the evil scheme. Evelyn volunteered to carry kerosene along . Lucy brought matches and torchlight.Vivian brought a cutlass. I volunteered to carry anyone who may get hurt in case miss Bansah attack us or any unknown stranger.
Soon miss Bansah’s house came into sight. It was a mud house roofed with thatch. All we need to do is to torch her thatched roof.
Fifty metres to her house, Evelyn stepped on something. It was thread-like. The thread like figure turned round and bite her.
Evelyn screamed so loudly that we are sure miss Bansah could have woken up. She clung to her foot.
“Shhhhhhh!!Stop screaming! I commanded her but she kept screaming and holding her foot.
Lucy turned her torchlight on Evelyn’s foot. We were all amazed at what we saw. Her right leg was getting swollen, her breathing was becoming difficult. The colour of her leg was turning black.
Immediately, we knew what happened to Evelyn.
Snake bite!!!
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The snake moved in our direction.It looked like a rattlesnake.
It has a ring like design at the end of its tails. It shook when it felt threatened making rattling sounds. It looked very venomous.
We threw our tools down
,screamed and run shelter- shelter. I mustered courage and carried Evelyn who was now about to lost consciousness.
Miss Bansah was opening her door to ascertain what was happening.
Evelyn was twitching and convul
sing.
She was becoming hot and her spasm was erratic. I knew if I didn’t do something about her situation, the snake bite will poison her blood and end her life.
I rushed Evelyn to the village’s herbalist and knocked on his door. He came out and saw Evelyn twitching and struggling in her excruciating throes. Without asking asking any question, he rushed into the bush, cut some herbs, make some concoctions and applied them onto her swollen foot.
Still Evelyn didn’t regain her consciousness.
The herbalist said, “she needs to see a medical doctor in the city. The herbs will stop the poison for some time but a doctor is needed to further treat her. By the way , what were you going in the bush this night?
I pretended not to hear his question. Instead I said, ” I will get her mother” and left the herbalist’s house.
I reached Davi Adzovi’s house and knocked on her door. She was deep asleep. I knocked and knocked but still she didn’t respond.
“DAVI ADZOVI!!!!!!” I combined the knocking with shouting. Finally she woke up and asked ” Who’s there?”
“It’s me Dzifa.”
“What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
Your daughter Evelyn was bitten by a snake and is now in Efo Mawufemor’s house.
“What are you trying to tell me?”
“Please go to the herbalist house. She’s there!”
I knew I won’t be able to answer the plethora of questions she would be asking me. Wisely , I ran away towards my own house. I don’t know what happened later but my heart was thumping heavily. Every second, I looked at my door, expecting Davi Adzovi to come down to our house to demand an explanation from me. How will I explain myself to my Parents?
I have already lost their confidence during the trial of Sir Millson.
Luckily, Evelyn’s mother didn’t turn up.
<Third Person Narration >
Adzovi went to the herbalist’s house and was shocked to see her daughter there. She made arrangement with a taxi driver and Evelyn was rushed to the Hospital in the big town to undergo medical treatment.
Management of the Hospital say Evelyn was seriously bitten by the snake and her chances of survival was 50-50. They gave her several shots of anti-venom and hoped it would be efficacious.
Snake bites are common in many rural dwellers especially among peasant farmers.
It is essential for snake bite victims to get immediate medical attention, however, most rural communities in Ghana do not have access to emergency facilities or better road network to facilitate their transportation to nearby hospitals to get the correct medicine as soon as possible resulting in deaths.
Tbc
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