Dry Her Tears (Concluding Episode)

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Nma pursued Chimaobi continuously with a knife. They ran in circles and he fell. While he was trying to pick himself up, Nma attacked him with the knife.

He was sweating profusely on his bed as he struggled with Nma. This dream has taken the most of Chimaobi when he suddenly jumped from the bed screaming Nma!! Nam!!!

They were still handling the issue of the man in white appearing to them and disturbing their peace, now this dream is a second headache for him.

There is something that is more to this, Chimaobi thought.

Nam is on the verge of losing her second marriage. This is going to go viral again and the while community will begin to gossip her.

When her late husband died, there were rumors that she caused his death but there is no evidence to claim their arguments.

This same man in white apparel was causing a lot of havoc before her late husband died. Someone has to say something.

While she was contemplating on the next move to make, Oluchi her bosom friend came to make her hair. Nma shared her experience with Oluchi who advised her to seek the help of Okosisi, the community Dibia who lives in the forest that bounds their community with the great river.

This journey is worth the move. She is not ready to lose her husband again.

On the third market day, Nma decided to pay Okosisi a visit. She shared her experience with the great Dibia who told her to ask her mother what she did before she was born.

My mother? Nma queried.

It was the beginning of her journeys to the elemental forces.

Hurriedly, Nma went back home to her mother.

Mother! Mother!! Mother!!!

She shouted at the top of her voice calling out her mother. The shout was so intense that Nma's mother came out to know what is the problem.

Do you have something to tell me about why the man in white apparel follows me everywhere?

Nma is eager to know. She stood her ground to ensure that her mother tells her what she did before and after she conceived her.

My daughter, I can't hide this anymore. When I got married to your father and for several years, we could not near a child.

Nma mother had been that troubled marriage where her in-laws threatened to send her packing if she does not bear their son a child

I had to do something to secure my marriage. So, I went to great Dibia in the south bank of our community river. There, I was told to white paraphernalia to offer a sacrifice.

Nma's mother bought 7 yards of white cloth, some salt, white powder, white soap, and many other white items.

Unknown to her, her yet to be born child have been married to a spouse in the spirit, yet before she was born.

After the sacrifice, I conceived and bore you as my first and only child. Ot was a period of laughter.

I didn't tell anyone about my journey to the Dibia until now.

Your first husband must have died in the hands and torment of your spirit husband.

Nma wept her heart and eyes off that evening. She couldn't believe she was suffering the consequences of what she knows nothing about.

Mother, Nma called.

What do we do to solve this problem now?

The great Dibia gave a solution. And it is that you will by one o'clock in the middle of the night for seven days, you will break seven native fowl eggs.

With much ado, she accepted to pay the price for her marriage to be peaceful and for her not to lose her husband Chimaobi.

It was a great evening for Chimaobi and as they started the journey to set their marriage from the evil covenant that was taken by her mother-in-law on behalf of her child even yet before she was conceived or born.

On the first night of their sacrifice of the first native fowl egg, a strange wind began to blow. Nma held on to Chimaobi very firmly until the wind was calm.

They did this for six days.

On the seventh day, as they were about to smatch the last egg on the ground, the man in white apparel appeared with a scream and then disappeared never to be seen again.

That night, Chimaobi slept like a newborn baby after making sweet love to a who later gave birth to sons and daughters.

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