Izwile(on hold)

chapter 26

Nosi's POV

I was introduced to the Dlamini ancestors. I finally felt complete. I felt accepted. I AM A DLAMINI.

Mom told me that I'll be meeting someone today and she didn't tell me who.

There were black clouds everywhere the time Bab Ngema was preparing for the ceremony. I was standing outside the gate at 12 midnight dressed in a Zulu attired. The moment I got in thunder accompanied me. I won't lie I was scared but then my hero was holding my hand. I came in with dad with Bab Ngema walking infront of us saying the Dlamini clan names.

When I say it poured I mean it. There were the heaviest drops or rain ever.
Bab Ngema instructed me and dad to cut our palms and pour the blood inside the traditional container with herbs on it. It's was painful. The pain damn it the worst was the black paste he rubbed on my palms. We were instructed to drink the mixture. I was confused. I looked at dad and he chuckled and said. "Uzobuza later hhay manje weh journalist"

Seeing how happy my dad was made it even more emotional for me. He loves me. My father loves me. I never thought I would ever experience this type of love.

He named me Thandolwam. I am Nosibusiso Thandolwam Dlamini. I'm a daddy's girl bafethu.

"Nkosazana." A Bab sthe says appearing infront of me. I've been watching the Dlamini clan walking up and down from a distance. I changed into a long sleeve knee length dress with a head wrap.
"Baba." I say looking at him.

"How are you feeling.?" He asks facing the same direction as me.
"Happy. Actually I don't know if I've ever felt this happy. Aside from the time mom said she's going to be my mom forever." I say looking at my dad laughing with my granddad and I smile.

"I'm glad. Princess we love you and we'll always be there for you...." We hear a grunting sound from the ancestral rondovel it must be Bab Ngema.
Is something wrong..

"What's happening? is something wrong?" I ask Bab sthe and he looks at me weirdly. My breathing has changed my thought is dry and my vision is becoming more and more blury.

"Thando.... Thando" I can't breathe. I hear voices calling me but they seem distant.

What's happening. Then it's lights out for me.

Smiso's POV

I saw her falling. The clouds we becoming dark again. Dad went to the rondovel and I went to sthe and my daughter. He had her in his arms.
I really don't know what's happening.

We quickly took her to Ngema and he instructed for us to lay her down. After a short while Gog Zamadikiza was ushered in by mAh.

She helped her sit down then she left.
I looked at my daughter who looked almost lifeless on the floor covered with a cow skin.

"Yini engahambikahle ngoThando" my father asks Bab Ngema.

"Khumalo, angazi ngzoqalaphi." Bab Ngema. Replies.

"Lomntfwana walaka Dlamini."(the child belongs to the Dlamini's)
Gog Zamadikiza says looking up.

"Ini..angizwanga" I say looking at Bab Ngema.

"Nosibusiso is a Dlamini. Please call Makoto smiso" Bab Ngema says and I leave to get her.

I found her sitting with mah crying on her chest.

"How is she." Noma asks as soon as she sees me. They all look upto me with tears on their faces.

"How's my baby smiso? Is something wrong? What's happening." MaDlomo asks coming to me.

I look at mAh and she nods.

"Baby we need you, there is something we need to hear from Bab Ngema."

She is nods and I lead the way. Her hand keeps on shaking. I reassure her that everything is fine.

We get in and kneel on the floor.

"As I was saying. Smiso, MaDlomo, Thando is not your parents daughter. She is yours instead. She needed someone stronger to give birth to her. She is a Dlamini spiritually that's why when people call her name they can't defeat her because they don't call her spirit. Don't worry Makoto she is fine. She just connected with the Dlamini ancestors on an intimate level. You may l may leave us now makoti smiso stay behind." She looks at me and I nod.

My father and my brother's seem to be in deep thoughts.

"Smiso don't tell me you didn't notice the birthmark on her lower back. The one all the Dlamini females took from your mother. Not to mention the urge to protect her from the minute you met her."

"Anyway we're not her for that. Smiso Thando is a healer." I look at him. Hhay Nani.

"She is the first Dlamini female to have the wolf inside her. That is why she needed your mother in law to give birth to her because she was the strongest white witch. Her life just became more dangerous because he who will consume her heart will have eternal immortality.)

"What? What do you mean?" That's my father. We all looked at Ngema.

"Your granddaughter is in danger. Gog Zamadikiza is hear for the spells. Midnight I need you all outside to perform the job. It needs to be done."

I need my wife...