Chapter 14

• Babida who had randomly discovered the whereabouts of his crush in the east of Ekule was now fleeing from her and the glorifying crowd. His true identity had been unconcealed. He was not a regular woodsman like the others. He was Babida the lumberjack, killer of the Monster of the forbidden mountain.
• From that moment, he was conscious that his life in Ekule and even beyond, would no longer be as quiet as it was since his coming back to the empire a year ago.
• He walked back to his home in the south of the village, his kufi hat lowered to the level of his eyebrows so that people would not recognize him. He knew news in the region spread like wildfire.