Chapter 22

• "Behold over there! The lumberjack is back from the forbidden mountain but the young lad is not with him." A soldier exclaimed while standing in front of his tent in Okunde's garden.
• The troop and the residents glared in the direction where Babida was. He looked sad and exhausted from his overnight journey. The inner corners of his eyebrows were raised and his eyes were red. He retained his emotion throughout the way back but at the sight of the military camp, he could no longer. It was hard to cope with the incessant flashbacks of the Beast's coup de grace on Bodo. The memory of the tragedy appeared, disappeared, and then reappeared.
• Devastated, he let his axe slide from his right hand and drop to the ground. Then hot tears began to roll down his jaws. He wiped them off with the back of his hands but they kept on flowing to the extent that even his chest was imbibed with some of the salty liquid.