It's past two am and it had just rained...a heavy one indeed that had
swept dirt and black sand from around the area in heaps dotted around
the estate by flash floods which we were going to see in the morning but
at this time, tiny dots of rain water still drizzled outside, it was
the second rain of the year in the start of the rainy season, the
weather was so cold and everywhere, pitch dark as power authority had
cut off supply just about the time the rain started to forestall any
incidence of electrocution in case a power pole got felled by strong
wind or lightening, with a few random houses within the estate
including ours, illuminated by their security lights from either putting
on generator sets, solar or inverter sources of electricity.
Everywhere
within the Adagiri home was quiet and dark as all were soundly asleep, I
love having too many pillows on my bed to have something to hug
wherever it was I faced in case I had a nightmare so I snuggled between
my "babies", wrapped altogether in my mosquito net as one of the stand
had broken and I had to bring the net down, I sleepily pushed Karl's big
and hairy leg away from my thigh as I turned to look at him from a
reflection of a security light outside whose rays had sliced its way
through the dark room to illuminate Karl's sleepy face showing as he
chewed baby-ishly at his lips....I hate when he does that, so I just
turned my face away from him. On the other side of the wall in QT and
Hamz's room, QT looked as always, sweetly cute and at peace sleeping,
the silence in the room occasionally broken by his intermittent snores
while for Hamz...his face looked the picture of being disturbed or
bothered, constantly twitching..literally and turning around the bed as
dots of sweat began to form on his brow...that was when it started!
"EMA WEYIN OOO! (WEYIN) 2x
EMA SOFOFO! (OFOFO),
OFOFO O'DARA!
(K'ODARA),
NILE IYA HAMUSA! (HAMUSA)! ''