Ado's heart stopped for a brief second she knew she could not run away from answering the question so she said o beim I have been meaning to tell you I could not collect a long time ago in araka a village surrounded by Hills and rivers in the early hours of the morning the villagers were buzzing with excitement because it was the day of the most anticipated wedding that would bring peace between the Villages of Aman and araka Nami the prince of Aman would be getting married to adugo the princess of araka and their Union would
cease the war that had spanned for hundreds of generations the air was thick with excitement and all over the village there were conversations of Peace sadly what they did not know was that by evening most of them would either end up as slaves and the others dead because their princess was miles away from araka with her lover obina in the afternoon of the wedding day the celebrations were now in full gear and it was time for the people of amandi to behold their new wife Ado's father King chica asked her mother to go and Usher
their daughter in but when she got to Ado's H she met two Palace mids crying my queen my queen the older mate said it's the princess she's nowhere to be found the queen was horrified she knew her daughter did not want to marry Nami but she thought the HTO heart conversation they had in the evening of the previous day made adugo understand the importance of the marriage when did you notice she was missing the queen asked the maid yesterday night my queen she went to say her final farewell to obina as agreed and since then
she has not returned with all the confusion that was going on the queen was certain about one thing War their kingdom was in trouble so she asked the maids to tell some Warriors to take the king to safety but this turned out to be a mistake because King doer of Aman was a cunning man he never wanted peace between araka and amanzi the only reason he allowed the marriage to happen was to form an alliance with araka a land rich with lomy soil that only had the best crops growing from the the ground and King
chicaa accepted the idea because he was tired of the senseless killings you see when the year started the priest of Aman prophesied a terrible famine that would plague the land when King do heard the prophecy he knew it was time to seek help from another Village to help them stuck up their bars so his people would not die during the prophesied famine but because of his Corning ways he sent spies to araka many months before the wedding to get familiar with the village just in case King chica decided to play a fast one on them
and on the wedding day his Warriors stood at strategic places waiting for his signal so when he noticed araka Warriors trying to Usher their King away he panicked and gave a signal and an arrow was shot straight at King chica's heart the whole place was in chaos the people of araka tried to defend themselves but they were up against Warriors who had planned their attack on them for many months so naturally they lost the Aman Warriors slaughtered every member of the royal family and prominent Chiefs and as for the commoners king do put rulers over
them subjecting them to slavery in their own land far away from the chaos where OB and adugo holding each other in Joy they had finally arrived at oi The Village they had been planning to escape to for months where no one would bother their love for each other as Ado and obina set foot in the village obina asked a question that was burning in his heart the moment they set up for their Journey my love I hope you took enough go from your father to help us live a comfortable life Ado's heart stopped for a
brief second she knew she could not run away from answering the question so she said obim I have been meaning to tell you I could not collect the gold they almost caught me and I would not have been able to make my way to you OB instantly pushed her away from their tight Embrace what do you mean h how can you be so stupid he said very harshly with a mean look on his face immediately he said that he realized he should not have spoken that way but that was enough for adugo to finally realize
and accept what had been staring her in the face for a long time she did not need anyone to tell her that she had abandoned her family members traveled across rivers run through thick forests and slept in uncomfortable places with the wrong man a man who only loved her for her status days went by and adugo and obina began settling into their new reality they found an abandoned H and decided to start living there but they could barely afford to feed and obina wasn't making it easy for her at every opportunity he blamed her for
their situation One Day adugo suggested oim let's go out to the Village Square and find some jobs to do or are we going to starve to death but OB laughed at her in the face and said what does a princess who has been cared for her whole life know how to do obina was getting angry again for as long as he could remember he was a blacksmith the gold adugo Left Behind was meant to retire him for life well Ado decided to take matters into her own hands she went to the Village Square to look
for a Minal job despite her royal status she was determined to make end meets when she got to the market the first thing she noticed was the vast collection of African artwork sold in the market she suddenly remembered all the paintings she saw on the mod houses on her way to the market it was obvious that the village of OC took took their art very seriously adugo immediately felt a sense of Welcome because she herself was a wonderful sculptor she could carve the most beautiful objects from nothing and her painting techniques were Immaculate as a
matter of fact most of the objects in her father's Palace were made by her she quickly came to a decision to sell her beads to get some money to buy some supplies for her art and day by day she began to carve her structures finishing them with a generous amount of paint on the day she set out to sell the object in the market she felt a sharp pain in her belly she quickly asked obina to get help from the herbalist and after examining her the herbalist confirmed to them that she was pregnant OB was
was disappointed how were they going to raise a child without money he decided to abandon adugo and flee to another Village so as Ado rested OB made his way out of the house but just as he was about to leave he spotted the sculptures at duid so he thought to himself I can sell these to get a little money for food but he was wrong there was no way he would get a little money from them Ado knew her craft well she was African royalty so she had eyes for only the best things obina had
not gone far when he was stopped by a man who wanted to buy all the art he had not only was he willing to buy all but he was also willing to give him plenty bags of Cales in exchange I need more of this I have never seen anything like this in OC you will definitely be one of the richest men in OC if you keep selling this type of objects after that conversation obina decided he would not leave anymore so he went back home to adugo and shared the news with her adugo was excited
she knew her art was special and would make her a lot of money but she did not expect it to happen so quickly so she said but obim you did not tell me you were going to help me sell them OB could not tell her that he was making his way out of the village when he met the man who bought the sculptures so he told her that he did not want to bother her because she was resting I can't wait to show him the different types of object I can make adugo said but OB
stopped her right there the man believes I am the sculptor we might seem dishonest if we go back and say you are the one obina was able to convince her that he was better off posing as the sculptor while she walked behind the scenes and although adugo knew it was the wrong thing to do she was secretly joyful to see obina happy again it reminded her of the wonderful times they had in araka maybe just maybe we can live very happily she thought to herself but 21 years later the only good thing about obina and
Ado's Union was their daughter cha however just like the sculptor buyer predicted they were one of the richest families in OC due to adugo sculptures but their marriage was unbearable for both of them obina constantly cheated on his wife and disrespected her at every opportunity and in no time she had turned into a bitter person when she wasn't sculpting she was nagging him but one day she decided she had had enough if she wanted to live long enough to see her daughter's children she knew she had to leave OB so she said to him I'm
going back to araka my parents may not be alive but at least my siblings will receive me with love OB let out a loud laugh do you think I have not t about that two weeks after we arrived in OC I heard from some men in the market that there was a Mass Slaughter in araka because a certain princess ran away with her lover adigo looked obina straight in the eyes and she knew he was not telling lies for many years she had longed to see her family again but now it was no longer a
possibility her world was shattered she walked straight to her room lay down on her bed and cried herself to sleep later that evening her daughter cha went to wake her up from her nap mama mama K your food is ready when cha realized she was not responding to her she decided to tap her but then she noticed how stiff her mother's body was immediately she let out a loud scream
