BLOOD BY THE HAND OF GUILT

Chapter Forty Seven

Kaia received the phone call from Sara, she was still half asleep when she said hello.

"Kaia, it's Sara"

"Hey Sara"

"Dave is awake……"

"Say what?"

"Dave…..he is awake, he came out of coma yesterday"

Suddenly fully awake she sat up, pushing the blanket off her.

"Oh my God that is great news" Kaia was happy….genuinely happy.

"He is okay, they just run a few tests and the doctor says recovery will be slow but he is doing quite well, he still complains about numbness but aside that he is great"

"Thank God, I wish I could speak with him"

"Gerard and I are at Dave's now but we will call when we get back to the hospital, we just needed a shower and a change of clothes"

"Please do, call me as soon as you get back"

"We will…..any word from Leia?"

"There have been complications but everything would be sorted out soon"

"What kind of complications?" Sara asked.

"The kind to not worry about" Kaia assured.

***

The Sheik was not satisfied at how things had turned against him. The King had demanded to see him, he had a meeting with quite a number of officials and to his surprise, there were rumors about her holding a certain American captive.

He denied it, hands down.

He took a sip of water from his glass and then he stared into the glass.

He had found an idea.

***

Casmir washed his hands and feet with water from an earthenware pot, then he stayed still. There was a rumble, he listened. He heard cars in the distance. He stepped out of his house, a small house and then he saw people run past him, then he saw the thick clouds, no they were not clouds they were something else…smoke. Then the men in weird masks stepped out of the smoke.

Then it hit him, this was not smoke, but gas, poisonous gas. To confirm his suspicions woman ran to him, grabbed him as she choked, red boils spewing a foamy substance were all over her face and arms.

"RUN!!, Casmir covered his nose with the kafeeyeh he usually had around his neck and tried not to breathe, the woman slowed him down, the gas was not thick yet where he was but he had already seen so many people go down with boils and puss oozing out of them, It was a horrible sight.

As he ran he caught sight of a woman with a baby just before she went down.

"Take her" Casmir said to a young man he recognized who nodded and took the woman away with him as Casmir went back for the woman with the baby.

He looked behind him, the crowd rushing towards him would not give him a chance to ran, they were likely to stampede over them. Casmir checked the baby, she had wrapped him up in a cloth. The woman was already dead, covered in puss and blood and boils, her eyes and mouth gaped open. He took the baby and continued to run as fast as he could to safety. He soon began to feel the burns on his arms, his skin had began to redden, his eyes were watery, he felt the urge to pull away the kafeeyeh covering his nose to take in fresh air. He began to inhale the pungency in the atmosphere and he began to feel himself choking. He coughed but wouldn’t stop running. He made it into a home that seemed to have been abandoned, found some water, wetted the kefeeyeh and the cloth that wrapped the baby and wrapped him up again, then he tied the kafeeyeh round his nose and inhaled through it, slowly.