EXOUSIA Book One

CONGRUENCE

CHAPTER FOUR

Congruence

"A week!" Ann screamed what the hell was going on here? Where was she? This must be a joke, she thought. She couldn't have been out for a week. Her parents would be worried sick by now.

"My mother and father will be looking for me by now." She told Oloku.

"Don't worry. It will all be ok. We will try our best to take care of that." Olokun assured her.

This worried Ann. Maybe they were planning to kill her parents. This was all her fault. She should have listened to her mother.

"I can assure you that if any ill comes to your parents it would not be from us." Olokun answered, "We do not hurt humans."

"Then what are you planning to do to them?" Ann asked then paused, recollecting what the woman had just said. Did she hear this woman right? She referred to her parents as humans. Does that mean these people weren't human? Her situation was worse than she thought. If these people were not human then maybe this woman was truly the deity she claimed to be. In the church, these deities were regarded as evil and demonic by nature. This was not a good situation at all. Any hope of escaping was gone.

"I will tell you when you are ready," Olokun replied.

This did not sound good to Ann. Something bad had either happened or was about to happen to her parents and it was all her fault.

"Yes, you are the reason." Olokun replied, "but like I said it wasn't our doing."

This was worse than Ann thought. Here she was worried about her own safety when she should have been worried for her parents. Something bad had happened to them. She started to cry.

"Now dear. There is no need to do that. Nobody said they were dead. They are only missing after all," Olokun said trying to console her and doing a terrible job at that.

Olokun left her and walked right through the wall. Ann was in shock. "How did she do that?" she asked the girls.

"Come on. Move." Khadija said pushing Ann forward. Ann hit her face on the wall.

"Focus. Imagine the wall is a curtain and you can walk right through it to the other side. That's the only way you can get out of here." Lola explained.

Ann tried again and again and hit her face on the wall each time. Ann started to wish there was a door she could use. All of this was unnecessary. her face had begun to hurt. Then, suddenly a door appeared and Ann used it, talking about wishes being granted. She then wondered if she could wish herself back home. She did but It didn't work.

"You need to practice," Olokun said welcoming her to the other side.

"You should have just given me the door instead of expecting me to walk through a wall," Ann complained.