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Knighted Again – Ch.13 | KT OLLA

MAQWELA caught the smile on Nile’s face as he turned back to him.

He knew why the boy smiled, yet he liked him more. Those were some things of innocence that he missed.

The king liked people who wouldn’t cower when he used power. Unlike how he’d tremble as a boy when his late father abused the right.

Yes, he liked folks who still retained their peace as they grew. Like those cute youngsters listening to him.

So the monarch resumed, but he preferred to go the earnest way.

‘Now like I said earlier, that nobody enters here except Maqwela passes them – you must also know that nobody hears the things I’ll be speaking now unless we tell them!

‘Now I know you’re smart enough to know what I said – and what I left unsaid!’

The duo braced up and gestured with a nod. They knew the weight of that sentence and were ready to keep the monarch’s secret.

They knew they were about to hear a blast. And so they braced up for it.

Right then the middle-aged heaved a deep breath, crossed his arms over his chest and stammered through the start.

‘Fifteen—fifteen years ago... my... my father—’

A ball of tear had appeared in his eye, his clear eyes were turning ember and his bright face growing pale.

He was breaking down in front of two young kids. But this was his last stop, so he wouldn’t care.

Now the tear began to roll down and the man left it so. For as the waters rolled, his burdens rolled down and this was his story.

Maqwela dropped his head in a big bow, went lame with sorrows then pulled a long groan in his throat.

Vickie looked to Nile and gestured with a nod.

So Nile got the call and closed his eyes, as he began to coo a low hum to the piece called ‘Peace’ – in When You Seized Me, Peace.

Within half a moment Vickie joined, for the bright girl shut her eyes as she parted their gentle symphony...

And she took this part with a slender hum.

The duet voices meld in one and rose in the monarch’s ears like a soothing piece with arms of embrace.

Maqwela stopped and just shivered through the rest of the time. When the music was done, he stayed a moment then raised his head.

He clamped his hands and sighed.

‘I am sick,’ he said. ‘I am very sick, and I need your help. I need your music.

‘I know you are kids and I shouldn’t be doing this to you. But I am desperate.

‘In 15 years, I have searched for a cure for my sickness. But there was none, because it wasn’t sickness.

‘I have searched a cure for long. And then I found your music and it cured me, but I’m not sure.

‘I guessed it cured me but hasn’t returned me back to me. I guessed I was cured but I’m not whole.

‘When I heard your music last week, something happened that never happened in 15 years.

‘My crisis was about to start again, and then it disappeared into thin air just when you started.

‘It has never happened before that I’d see crisis come and it wouldn’t live out its time.

‘Yet when I heard your music, that kind of wonder happened.’

He looked at them.

‘I have tasted how sweet it is to be rescued last week, but I doubt I am fully well. I dread having to see this thing back.’

He finished. ‘You will never know, kids. But I am really very sick!’

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