I'll put this metal
through your heart' said Master looking down at Clipp, red with anger.
They had kidnapped him
an hour ago when he was returning home. Clipp is a gentle youth not more than
four-and-twenty. He has been studying in the library for the last three weeks.
These men cut him off as he was coming out of the library. They had taken him
to somewhere very strange that he could never have imagined existed in his hometown. They had been asking him about
something which he doesn't understand;
‘‘Just tell us where
your father keeps the key and maybe we will give you a chance to live'' they
would say. Yet Clipp has no notion of where this key might be or even what
means is. Even if he knew he would not tell. Pigheaded they call him. He never
does what he doesn't feel like doing. Everyone in their family is like that.
His father was killed because he didn't tell Master what he wanted to here.
''Alas, you could not know what is in my brain by opening it. You would have
learned where the key is. It is in a place you would never know'' Clipp's
father would say. He would close his eyes and say '' I can feel it. It is in a
place you would never expect it to be.''
Master likes jokes but not of this kind. And now he knows this man will tell
him naught. Pigheaded they call them. So he said '' sir, would you be so kind
as to let us see whether we can find the location of the key by opening your
brain?
Master has never hesitated
to kill a man since the incident that happened on the second of March 1976.
Master was furious
that he couldn't get the information by opening Clipp's father brain. Years
later he started following his son.
Master's crew has been
waiting since eleven AM and now it's 12 at night still no sign of the boy. They
sent one of their men to check on him. Clipp was inside lost in a book. They
waited for another hour. Their eyes were fixed on the entrance. Ivy Stronghead
hesitated as he saw the boy. Clipp was on the phone giggling with delight. Ivy
cast a long glance at Clipp. He failed to come up with something that will
convince Clipp to get into the car without any inappropriate practice. So they
drove toward him, jerked him in and disappeared off the road.
They waited in the
Meeting Room for the master to come.
Clipp was tied and gaped yet he was calm an unperturbed. ‘‘You don't have to
die so young. You must have a dream as I
am seeing you in the library trying to eat all of the books in a few days.'' said
Master after his unexpected entrance to the Meeting Room. He pointed the gun
toward Clipp's forehead when the boy laughed at his joke. '' I'll split up your
brain and see how much is alike to your father's.
Clipp shuddered his mouth a hard line. He cast a
hateful glance at Master. A whisper inside him told him to get up and rip up
the man's throat. The whisper, however,
has forgotten how he was strapped from head to toe.
Yazar: Bilal Rabiu Kolo
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