Twist of Fate

Dan grew up in a small village where education was for a selected few. Having formal education was a luxury that hardly any parent could afford in that village.

It was an election year and unlike many politicians who came canvassing for votes and making all manner of promises to the population, Dan's village was privileged to be featuring one of its own in the race for the presidency.

Luno Albert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Diok Albert. Although Luno's parents were from Dan's village. He was born and bred in Scotland. He acquired his education there and had a degree in political economics and a master's in business administration. Luno is a brilliant young man like his father. And a carbon copy of his dad.

Dan's village had been so remote that they saw electricity since it existed. Generations have passed and hardly do the inhabitants realize civilization exists outside their hamlet.

It took Luno's father, hard work, kindness, and sheer determination to move out of his village to the city and then Scotland.

On a good day, while Luno's father was hunting in the forest, he stumbled upon a man in a pool of blood lying almost lifeless and quickly rush to his aid. The man's arms were tied behind and bounded with his legs using ropes. Luno's father used the dagger in his right pocket to cut the ropes and took the half-dead man home.

Without asking, his mother rushes to get hot water and some herbs. She ordered her son to get the dry rag on the line outside and without hesitating, he jump off from the kneeling position he was to collect the rag in a dash and returned to his mother with it. Both of them worked frantically until they wiped out all the bloodstains and stabilized the man. After several hours of resting, he woke up but was still unconscious. Mama held him gently and placed his head back on the wooden pillow when he woke up in freight. He rested again for several more hours while mama got busy making the dishes in the bamboo kitchen with the few kills from her son's hunting. And her son was busy outside splitting the firewood.

Before the meal got ready the man is now fully woke and conscious of his environment. On realizing it, mama moved closer to him but he retreated with fear in his eyes. Mama's son who later became Luno's father came into the thatched house and into the room where mama and the man were both standing and seated respectively, watching each other. His entrance broke mama's stare but not the man's.

Mama quickly rushed to the kitchen to get the food and served them. They sat close to him to eat. Even though the man refused to eat at first, he soon joined them and ate hastily. He finished the bowl of food and wanted more but didn't say. Mama rushed to bring more food and he ate but this time moderately. He still wouldn't alter a word after he was told how they found him. Staring blankly in the air he soon went to bed and slept off. And everyone went on to sleep.

The next morning, the man could remember all that had happened to him before he was found lying in a pool of his blood almost giving up on life. He narrated all he's been through to mama and her son. The man is a businessman and a politician and owns one of the largest steel plants in the country. But due to the political rivalry in the contest for the national chairmanship of his party and when some of his rivals have seen that his chances of winning were coming to a reality they paid assassins to get him kidnapped and killed. But unfortunately for the assassins, they thought he was dead.

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