THE EVENTUAL AND INEVITABLE DEATH OF THE EMBER

This is a tale of choice and hope. It asks the most human of questions, should i save mine? Or should i save yours? This time it is up to a little girl of 13 to answer.

With the recent waves of school girl kidnappings from Chibok to Dapchi and the use of little girls as suicide bombers, this tale is from the point of view of one such girl, Tsira a 13 year old girl from the town of Karga in Borno state.

The terrorist group raid her little town killing all that breathes, the survivors are taken captive and even though she manages to escape capture, her escape doesn't last long.
She is captured and drugged by terrorists who threaten to kill her and what is left of her now captive village people unless she carries out their deathly missions.
She is partnered with a man she only comes to know as the alchemist, a maker of Improvised Explosive Devises. He is silent and has an expressionless face that carries a permanent demeanour of gloom.
She finds herself turned into a bomb mule as she is dragged from one unsuspecting town to the next, exploited of her innocent demeanour and handed a bomb carefully packaged to look like an everyday parcel that she may place it in a crowded area.
This is where story gets intense, the question of choice. The choice placed on a 13year old to choose between her people and strangers she never knew.