“Everyone the chief is calling all of us” said the young messenger. The chief looked at the messenger and smiled at the one loyal soldier who always listened and followed him everywhere he went. Everyone from the great village of Imbaze gathered together.

The chief looked at his people and said in his loud voice “My people today is my last day with you, i have decided to join the ancestors, after 900 years I have seen your children live and die as that is human nature, today I will walk to the land where each one of you fears, where fear becomes your greatest enemy, where fathers kill there own sons, sons kill there own mothers and where newborns became food.”.Even though i do not have a child i see you all as my sons and daughters.I love you all.I have one last request”. As the chief spoke the body of the once handsome chief slowly grew to an old man.

“Who will follow me to the land of the ancestors and see me off”, The chief asked. Women who loved the chief dure to his handsomeness looked down with disgust and not believing he is no longer the one they loved. Old men said to the chief “We’re too old we cant survive to see you off, we’re sorry but your name will be inscribed in our hearts”. The young men who drank and laughed with the chief hide themselves so they wont be called out.

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Then suddenly the young messenger came towards the podium and said started crying, he hold tightly to his heart and said “You have been like a father to me, you fed me, my mother and siblings, for so many years, you have never looked down on us with disgust even though we are weak and fragile compared to our tribesmen and so i will follow you towards the end of the world if i have to show my gratitude.”.

The chief looked at the young messenger and appeared to the young man in the blink of an eye and said “You are truly my Son and heir from today, follow me ”. Everyone looked at awe. The chief laughed with happiness and called the family of the young messenger and said to the mother “From today you and your family shall become the next leaders of the village and I bless you with the power of water, your children shall be blessed.”.

The chief touched the woman who once called the barren one because her children were weak in all aspects of life in knowledge, wisdom, and strength but they had one special attribute that can never be copied kindness and compassion. Suddenly the Woman and her two daughters who were the messenger siblings fainted and young men took them to the chief's house. The chief said to the young messenger they will be fine.

The chief and the boy started their journey and walked into the forest little did the young messenger know he started his journey to rewrite the person he thought he was from scratch. They walked for several hours.