MY MISSING GRANDMA
PART 7
As soon as they saw a woman sitting on a white flying bird all dressed in white and flying towards us, they fled.She stopped, made me sit on the bird and we left for her place.
When we arrived her place she made me feel so comfortable. She quickly made something for me to eat, I had a bath and then a change of cloth.
Later at night she came into my room with a piece of paper and a pen.
She wrote : ‘I know you can’t speak, but what’s your name? ‘
She handed the paper over.
‘My name is Melody ‘
She wrote : ‘Where are you from? ‘
I told her.
She wrote : ‘I’m Bernice.’
I wrote : ‘Who are you? And why did you save me? ‘
She wrote : ‘Well like I wrote before I’m Bernice. I live here all alone but I’m not a witch. My father used to do magic but I learnt some from him before he passed.’
I wrote: ‘How come the witches saw you and they fled? ‘
She wrote : ‘Well, when you flash a light into the dark it disappears’
I wrote : ‘OK. You do magic? ‘
She wrote ‘Just a little ‘
I wrote : ‘Can you please make me speak and hear again? ‘
She wrote : ‘I’m sorry, that’s going to be a little difficult. Only the lady witch who made you deaf and dumb can heal you. Even if I try it’s never going to work’
I wrote : ‘But.. She was taken away by my friend and the people she once turned into zomb ies,I don’t know if she’s still alive. So what do I do? ‘
She wrote : ‘The lady witch is dead, she was behe@ded by her husband the King’
I stood up.
I wrote : ‘what? So what is my fate? ‘
She wrote : ‘I really don’t know. She’s the only one who can undo the spell she casted on you ‘
I wrote : ‘I have her book of secrets. Can I use it? ‘
She wrote :’What? How did you get it? ‘
I explained everything to her.
She wrote ‘Yes you can use the book but you need to be very careful with it cos that book habours all their secrets’
Then I brought Mira out from my breast pocket.
I wrote : ‘Meet Mira. She’s my best friend. She used to be a horse till the lady witch turned her into a rat’
She wrote : ‘It’s beautiful. But I can do this one, I can turn her back into a horse’
I looked at her with excitement written all over my face. She collected Mira and put her on the floor. She then raised her two hands into the air with her eyes closed. After like 5 seconds I watched how Mira transformed from a rat into a horse. I grabbed Mira by the leg, kissed her and held her head very close to my heart with tears rolling down my face . I walked up to Bernice and gave her a tight hug.
She wrote : ‘I’ll show you your way home tomorrow ‘
I hugged her again, smiling.
I wrote ‘Thank you Bernice, you’re a Godsent ‘
The next morning we set out. I rode on Mira Bernice rode on her horse too. We reached somewhere very close to my town, we stopped.
Bernice wrote : ‘I’m going to turn back now Melody,thats your town over there’
‘Thank you ‘ I wrote.
We left waving at each other. I finally got to my town then went straight home. But on my way before I got home my town was looking somehow deserted and when I got to my house, it’s been burned down. What happened? I thought.
I rode to my aunt’s house it was also burnt down. I went from there to my friends house same thing. I was seeing the palace from where I stood then I rode there. When I got to the palace there were no palace guards, no maids, just the king sitting on his chair looking so frightened when he saw me. I walked towards him and he got up. he was trying to say something but I couldn’t hear him.I gave him a sign to write down whatever he had to say. He went into his room and brought a piece of paper and a pen, and wrote down all that happened.He told me how he behe@ded the lady witch and that a new witch had come into town, terrorising people and had k1lled some of them and took the rest away. I was so shocked and surprised. I took Mira and rode straight to where the king had told me to go in search of my family members. It was a very beautiful castle, newly built. I couldnt wait for the king to tell me who built the castle cos I needed to see my family and whoever it was that held my family and the rest of the people captive.
When I got to the castle my family members ran towards me, all looking so lean and pale including my dad. I had a piece of paper and a pen in my pocket. I brought it out and asked my father who the new witch was. He pointed at someone standing far away, backing us. I was trying to walk up to him when my mom dragged me back but I proceeded.As soon as I arrived his place the witch turned swiftly and looked at me. Behold, it was Casper…
To be continued…
©️ Blessing-Enejo Abrahams Elleywrites
