Cacophonous Melody Episode 16
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Stephanie looked at her husband, expecting him to say something in support of her position on what Tracy had done, and how it may affect everything the ritual stood for, but the man simply wasn’t saying anything.
“Honey, did you hear that Tracy took her phone to the shrine and let Bruce disrupt the process of the rituà l?
“Did you hear that your daughter chose to play with her life because of a man that will still end up leaving her when the pressures come down on her?
“Am I the only one that is concerned that my daughter is so fōōlish that she’s playing with her future because of a man that will most likely not marry her?” Stephanie complained.
Her husband made to respond, but Stephanie didn’t like the look on his face, and cut him short instantly, surmising that he was going to say something she wouldn’t like.
“You know what? I think I shouldn’t be talking to you because I know you’ll certainly not say anything helpful” she said à ngrily, shutting her husband up.
Then she turned to Bruce who was standing beside Tracy and looked at him from head to toe before she spoke.
“Bruce or whatever you are called, the only reason I am going to be civil with you today is because you are the only one who has tried so far to stay back after having your marriage ceremony with Tracy disrupted
“But you have to understand that I have but one child, and will dië having just her, so I won’t stand by and watch you wreck havoc in her life with your overzealousness
“My daughter’s mental health and well being is of paramount interest to me, and I won’t let you come here to make a mess of a rituà l that is known to be the only efficacious way of taking away the tôrments that has been in my lineage, since anyone can remember.
“Some things are deeper than you see, and until you have a full understanding of what is going on in someone else’s life, you have no right whatsoever to meddle in people’s affairs, especially when you’re just an outsider” Stephanie said, bent on sending Bruce away, since she was so sure that he’d still leave Tracy eventually.
“Stephanie! Will you keep quiet and allow these children come inside so we can talk like a family?” Chief Scot thundered, tired of holding it in, while she made things more complicated for her daughter, and made a fōōl of herself
“That’s the point. I need us to talk like a family, and think of how to appease Ozonge to be able to let Tracy go back to the shrine for the rituà l to be completed.
“And that’s why I need him to step out and let us talk as a family, without an outsider who is beginning to annoy me with the smile on his face, while I talk about something very important” Stephanie spat à ngrily.
“Ma, I think you’re making a mistake by assuming that I am an outsider in a meeting where the issue concerning my wife is to be discussed.
“We should all quickly go inside and talk about what that crãzy wïtch doctor nearly did to my wife, and how I was only lucky to have got there in time!
“I will need to be honest with you ma, the only reason I didn’t kïll that man, just like I kïlled his êvïl owl is because I didn’t want my wife to live with the memory of witnessing me kïll a man.
“So instead of being on the defensive, and making it look like my wife and I have offended the lunà tic, you should appreciate the fact that I didn’t kïll him in spite of how I still hurt from the injuries his stupîd bird inflicted on me.
“And that’s why I think we should say whatever we have to say quickly to enable return to the city with my wife, get her settled in, and also get to have a doctor take a look at the wounds to enable me resume work” Bruce said.
“What is this one talking about? What rubbish are you spewing? Which mortal is able to get careless in Ozonge’s shrine and get a chance to speak about it?
“How much more dreaming of kïlling the sacred owl? Granted, you have become the first idiòt to approach the shrine when the concluding gong had not been sounded, and came out alive
“But that’s not enough to begin to brag about things even a new born would know can’t happen” Stephanie blurted.
“Erm ma’am, I know that by the virtue of my marriage to your daughter, I have now become your son in-law, but that isn’t enough for you to hurl insûlts at me.
“With all due respect, I take exceptions to name callings, especially when it is uncalled for” Bruce said, truly offended by the woman’s sudden hôstility.
“May the gods forbid that I allow you an inch closer to my daughter again, after all you have done to keep her from completing the rituà l, how much more allowing you pay her bride price” Stephanie screamed, rolling her hand over her head before snapping her fingers away, as a way of sending an omen she sensed as bad, away from herself.
“Well, that means the gods kept you blind because not only has he paid her bride price already, you have also spent your own part of the money.
“What is wrong with you Stephanie?me You’re beginning to drive me crĂŁzy with the things you have been doing in this house, and the manner with which you have chosen to handle our daughter’s predicament.
“This girl has been through a lot, and we have been hoping that she successfully gets married. Now, the gods allowed her find a man that loves her enough to swim against all tides to be with her, and you have suddenly taken the place Uloma, to tĂ´rment not just your daughter, but the only one that gives happiness.
“Stephanie, do you not know what it means to be in love? Have you forgotten so quickly how we felt back then when we were faced with all the tròubles, and how we wished we could run far away?
“Don’t you know that this love that I have for you, is the only reason I haven’t become totally fed up with you?” Chief Scot asked his wife.
“You what? You collected bride price from Bruce when the rituĂ l was yet k be completed? You started a move that could create a distortion in my lineage’s timeline? Stephanie asked, looking at her husband incredulously.
“Were you expecting that I would stop them from being together? Would you have liked it, if your father came between us?” Chief Scot asked his wife, this time, with an angrier tone.
“I was expecting you to know that letting her complete the rituĂ l before marrying her off is sacrosanct” Stephanie said, snaring Bruce.
“And why is that mother? To ensure that the cĂ»rsed chief priest deflowered me, and got a cursed seed implanted in me, just like he said his forefathers did?
“How is a rĂ pe attempt by an ĂŞvĂŻl man, who isn’t just sharing in a cursè that has been transferred from one generation to another , but is most likely to be a sibling to his prey, sacrosanct?” Tracy asked, speaking for the first time, and making everyone look at her with mouths wide open.
TO Be Continued
