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The lost clan: Echoes of love- chpt6 complete
Chapter 6- Smoke, Anger and Madness.
Odunze swung his smoking calabash around the head of a kneeling warrior. Then he moved to the next one. He performed the same ritual after chanting long incantations. One could hear the latent rage in his chants.
More than one hundred warriors knelt before him that day at the shrine of Amadi. They all had chalked faces and held fresh green leaves with their teeth. The only sound that could be heard was the clinking of Odunze's ornaments. A few elders stood behind the warriors and watched in silence.
No one dared to challenge Odunze that day. In the past, the elders had troubled him to name a new Chief but he had always given a reason for not doing so. After the death of the three sons of Owoghiri, who were all great men, the elders knew they had to wait for Odunze to declare another Chief. So they obeyed the priest at least for that time.
Odunze deeply regretted the deaths of Achor and Ogugu. All he had wanted was to get Achike out of the way. To him, Achike was self-righteous, entitled and threatened his power. But Instead, he had lost the pillars of Alammiri. Ogugu had returned to Alammiri with serious injuries inflicted by gunshots. He had barely escaped death at the hands of the Umukabia warriors. Before dying from his wounds, he had described to Odunze, how Achor had been killed. When he heard the story, Odunze went mad with rage. The following week, he had assembled the entire...
Odunze swung his smoking calabash around the head of a kneeling warrior. Then he moved to the next one. He performed the same ritual after chanting long incantations. One could hear the latent rage in his chants.
More than one hundred warriors knelt before him that day at the shrine of Amadi. They all had chalked faces and held fresh green leaves with their teeth. The only sound that could be heard was the clinking of Odunze's ornaments. A few elders stood behind the warriors and watched in silence.
No one dared to challenge Odunze that day. In the past, the elders had troubled him to name a new Chief but he had always given a reason for not doing so. After the death of the three sons of Owoghiri, who were all great men, the elders knew they had to wait for Odunze to declare another Chief. So they obeyed the priest at least for that time.
Odunze deeply regretted the deaths of Achor and Ogugu. All he had wanted was to get Achike out of the way. To him, Achike was self-righteous, entitled and threatened his power. But Instead, he had lost the pillars of Alammiri. Ogugu had returned to Alammiri with serious injuries inflicted by gunshots. He had barely escaped death at the hands of the Umukabia warriors. Before dying from his wounds, he had described to Odunze, how Achor had been killed. When he heard the story, Odunze went mad with rage. The following week, he had assembled the entire...
