The Royals: A Kings Heart

Chapter 47

SASA'S POV_

Amahle and I have decided to go to dining hall for supper. I've been locked in our room for a while so getting out a bit will be great. We walked to the hall. Nothando joined us, we got food and sat down. The meal today was a normal spaghetti and meatballs with sauce. I picked at my food, barely eating. Then something clicked. I looked at Amahle. She was already staring at me.

Me: "We should go to Bakhoyo."

Ama: "I don't even know where it is."

Me: "We can find it."

Ama: "It's already late today, after your test tomorrow we can go. What are we looking for there?"

Me: "I don't know. There's a reason I dreamt of it. As her. Between that and eNtabeni. I don't think it's safe for me to be eNtabeni though."

Ama: "Yeah, my father has the place on lockdown." I was pumping with adrenaline. I could still vividly see the street I was walking in and the house. Hopefully not much has changed in the past 50 years. Unlikely but we can only hope.

Me: "Is it still... Secluded?"

Ama: "Yes."

Notha: "And severely neglected."

Me: "There's a reason for that."

Ama: "What?" I looked around us to make sure no one else was listening.

Me: "Amy, it is said he burnt down a village because he didn't want to ever see it again. Why then, leave the village he spent the last month's of her life with her in untouched. Why just abandon it? Surely it held more memories for him. Why didn't he burn that instead?"

Notha: "Let's go. You can't talk about this here." We took our containers with food to our room.

Ama: "You reckon he left something there?"

Me: "I don't know but something is missing. Why did he burn uMcebo village to the ground?"

Notha: "Maybe we need to find out more about uMcebo village then."

Ama: "How? He destroyed all there is about it."

Me: "He left one person." I dialed my father's number, listening to it ringing. He picked up.

Xolani: "My child."

Me: "Hello Tata."

Xolani: "How are you?"

Me: "I'm okay Tata. How are you?"

Xolani: "I'm fine. What's wrong?"

Me: "Tata, please be honest with me and patient. I just need to know."

Xolani: "Okay. What do you want to know?"

Me: "Apart from Nonkosi, what was uMcebo village known for? Was it important in some way?" He sighed.

Xolani: "Why are doing this?"

Me: "I just want to know Tata."

Xolani: "This was over 40 years ago Thembisa. I don't know what it was known for. The only thing that comes to mind when it is mentioned is Nonkosi. Our village was normal to me."

Me: "Can you tell me about it?"

Xolani: "From what I remember, we had quite a lot of crops. We farmed our own vegetables, fruit. We traded for livestock. We were close to a river though, we mostly had fish rather than meat. Uhm... What else... Oh, the reason the king had visited was due to a rumor. Since the name refers to treasure, I think maybe he wanted to mine in our village. Turns out it was just a rumor. We didn't have any treasure in our land. Just rich soil for farming. Nothing else."