Part one: ifi and the spirit girl

Ifi felt she needed to finish up the farm work that she became unaware of the night fall. The howling and chirping of birds should have drawn her attention of the sunset and the darkness that compasses the forest yet her mind was drawn to the excitement of the little portion that was left to finish cultivating the cassava farm, by the time she raised her head to take cognizant of what's happening, the forest was darkened and silence filled the environment except the howling of owls and the chirping of the birds that kept the forest alive. The howling continued to infest the forest and it left her cold, fear gripped her bones and all she desired was to be at home safe from the terror of the night.

Hurriedly she picked up the basket of the harvested cassava and she gathered the hoe and cutlass as she took to faster pace home. Ifi heard a cry of a baby, though she was afraid, she wondered who had abandoned her baby in a place as that, "Maybe the mother is there" she assumed and continued walking. The cry did not seize, instead the intensity and frequency increased. Ifi felt compassion for the baby and she decided to check whose baby has been abandoned. She took the direction that led to where the cry of the baby was heard, but the more she walked was the farther the cry seem and whenever she halt, the cry seem to be nearer. Ifi resolved to return home because it was getting late. When she turned, she couldn't comprehend where she was in the forest. She must have gone deeper into the forest unnoticed she thought. She started to run back through the direction she had come but got lost of the exact track she had taken. Just when she turned to take another path, she noticed a lone building in the forest and illumination shined from it, she advance toward it and noticed a baby inside.

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The baby's eyes was blue and her cry echo with a deep voice as an adult. Ifi feet went cold, her body started to shiver , immediately she felt pale , stuck in her position. Ifi legs felt heavy unable to move as she turned to run, the crying baby started to laugh, and transformed into an adult girl. "Ifi, I have a message for your king, tell him, the land bleeds, the waters has dried off, the path way have been deserted and the birds of the air and the cattle in the land hungers. Before sunset tomorrow, the harvest will go dry because the gods of the land has been forsaken , they have left us hungry because of a new found religion. Just until sunset tomorrow, go! Ifi go!" The spirit lady said. " Take the other path, that will lead you home and to where your basket of harvest lay". Ifi left and delivered the message to her king , " I don't know of them, go tell them , no longer we will feed wickedness, from today you are our medium" he said " Let the doom fall upon us, our God will rescue us".

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