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Aeran Nigeria Student @ University of cross River State calabar
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<p>Chapter 2 : </p><p>ᕦ⁠⊙/⁠╲⁠/⁠\/⁠\⁠╱⁠\come the new moon/⁠╲⁠/⁠\⁠/⁠\⁠╱⁠\⊙⁠ᕤ</p><p><br/></p><p>“The baby is out.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“And it’s alive,” the woman spoke in excitement.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Let me see it,” the man, my father, spoke.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Wait!” I tried to force the word out. “Let me see…”</p><p><br/></p><p>I tried again, but no one gave me any attention.</p><p><br/></p><p>“What gender is the beast?”</p><p><br/></p><p>“What?” I breathed out.</p><p><br/></p><p>For a moment, the midwives were quiet.</p><p><br/></p><p>“It’s a boy,” she said, so fast you could almost miss the words.</p><p><br/></p><p>The footsteps receded.</p><p><br/></p><p>Immediately, I woke up.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Uurrgh…”</p><p><br/></p><p>I was in pain. I sniffed and sobbed. I was battered. I gathered my strength and rose for my child.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Restrain her,” I heard from afar, so sharp.</p><p><br/></p><p>I didn’t mind. I was going for my child.</p><p><br/></p><p>A gasp escaped me before I could process it.</p><p><br/></p><p>“What…? What…? No… no…”</p><p><br/></p><p>I was beginning to heal. I could feel myself piecing together inside as I looked.</p><p><br/></p><p>Footsteps.</p><p><br/></p><p>I caught them immediately.</p><p><br/></p><p>Then a woman came.</p><p><br/></p><p>Memories flooded in spontaneously.</p><p><br/></p><p>Incantations.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Arsiers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Huh… what? Something’s happening.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I tried to explain. I felt so nauseous, dizzy, uncomfortable. I was precisely heating up inside, outside on my skin.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Princess… you need to run now!” she commanded.</p><p><br/></p><p>The woman shook. She was so frightened.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Why?”</p><p><br/></p><p>She held me. I tried to wave her off, but I staggered.</p><p><br/></p><p>Crack.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Arrrgh! My bones!”</p><p><br/></p><p>I cried harder this time.</p><p><br/></p><p>My bones began breaking, but I resisted. I felt overwhelming power bursting inside me. I was heating up, and whatever was happening, whatever this power was, I was going to get my child.</p><p><br/></p><p>I rose to my feet because I had fallen.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Look at me, Arsiers. You need to change. Let it in.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Let what in?” I questioned.</p><p><br/></p><p>“I need my child. My baby. And whatever this is, I’m going to get my baby…”</p><p><br/></p><p>Crack.</p><p><br/></p><p>It happened again.</p><p><br/></p><p>All over my body.</p><p><br/></p><p>“…with it,” I completed my sentence.</p><p><br/></p><p>Soldiers flooded in.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Change now!” she screamed as they took me.</p><p><br/></p><p>My father’s soldiers.</p><p><br/></p><p>Why?</p><p><br/></p><p>This many just for me?</p><p><br/></p><p>A hand grabbed me, and I looked at them both, flitting my face from one to the other and then to the rest.</p><p><br/></p><p>My rage grew.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oh, it grew.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like a lady a man has long missed, I grabbed onto that rage.</p><p><br/></p><p>My body jolted.</p><p><br/></p><p>The men fell.</p><p><br/></p><p>More came in to pin me down.</p><p><br/></p><p>My body jolted again.</p><p><br/></p><p>It sprinted.</p><p><br/></p><p>It broke.</p><p><br/></p><p>It readjusted.</p><p><br/></p><p>It broke again.</p><p><br/></p><p>I landed on all fours on the ground.</p><p><br/></p><p>I heated up.</p><p><br/></p><p>My photoreceptors changed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Magnificent.</p><p><br/></p><p>So clear.</p><p><br/></p><p>Blue.</p><p><br/></p><p>I could see so clearly, brightly…</p><p><br/></p><p>Then it changed back again.</p><p><br/></p><p>My photoreceptors flitted between normal and something I couldn’t explain or understand, while my body broke and changed gradually.</p><p><br/></p><p>The men flew back, shouting like they couldn’t believe what was happening.</p><p><br/></p><p>They stood in terror, while some kept their stance for any possible attack.</p><p><br/></p><p>I breathed hard, my voice raspy and dry as I shouted and screamed.</p><p><br/></p><p>The pain was unbearable.</p><p><br/></p><p>For God’s sake, I’m a woman and a daughter!</p><p><br/></p><p>Where is my father?</p><p><br/></p><p>I heated up until it was instantaneously, spontaneously…</p><p><br/></p><p>I had changed.</p><p><br/></p><p>I let out a loud howl, so strong the men shook.</p><p><br/></p><p>I felt a hunger like never before.</p><p><br/></p><p>A strong hunger.</p><p><br/></p><p>Just to tear.</p><p><br/></p><p>And keep tearing.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like nothing else mattered.</p><p><br/></p><p>But there was something.</p><p><br/></p><p>That something mattered a lot.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet the hunger was strong, as if it was my goal.</p><p><br/></p><p>I had two goals in this new mind of mine:</p><p><br/></p><p>To tear.</p><p><br/></p><p>And to take.</p><p><br/></p><p>Whatever was stolen from me.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I leaped.</p><p><br/></p><p>It was so powerful and fast.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like a thread, I snapped, and darkness swarmed.</p><p><br/></p><p>It was contradicting.</p><p><br/></p><p>I saw, but I saw darkness, while I continued to tear through raging men and wailing men as they ran.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I took their pace.</p>

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