The Lucy

As the sun reaches its peak, the horizon hits different, clothes spread out seems quite dried in a summer, the fig trees sings in its alluring voices whispering vaguely in languages that are quite incomprehensible but who wants to understand three languages by the way? The birds spreading its beautiful feathers and they raise raise their beaks and flew across the tree.

James sitting in a semi circular view, adjacent the fig tree sipping the Canadian pipe, something his first son would often times call " the street weed". James was a well built man, his light skin glowing in the summer would definitely remind Jessica of why she fell in love with him; his face is childlike, tall like he is an ancient African descendant, his smile so charming that one could always assume " he got everything figured out". Now retired from the force due to injuries from duty, he sat watching and beholding nature take its part in beautifying the existence called earth. He thought to himself, " why does the branches clap often?' He could literally assume that proper comprehension could give insight of tree conversations. He would in many occasions take a close shots from his camera, hoping to see smaller living organism, or probably capture where insects are marrying. Jessica would always describe his obsessions as " deformity from war" but that never stopped James from his obsessions about nature. While sitting and fixing its gaze at the tree, Jessica walks in taunting him about the small humans, she would ask him "how many did you see today?".

While they spoke about different things concerning their homes, Jessica brought up the topic about adopting a girl to stay with them. On different occasions, she has suggested it to James and they were inconclusive about the decision. James and Jessica often times called the J's family have the same thought about raising people, they love raising young people, watching them blossom into adulthood, since their 5 children are all grown to a certain age, they needed another adventure.

Jessica suggested they visit the St. Mary's orphanage homes, since the place is mostly crowded with young people, though recent stories foretails that people are dying, James would always insist that its lack of proper feeding and Mentorship that cause the death of young children at St. Mary's orphanage homes. They decided to visit the vicinity later that day after contacting the right authorities for adoption of a girl. They argued about the kind of girl they need, Asian, African, American etc. James always wanted a dark skinned girl but Jessica wanted Asian, "something about their round faces " she would always note. James want an African beauty that would add different color to their house because the five boys they have all seemed like they escaped albino, very fair like their mother with lovely brown eyes, tall like their father and fit, although they look more like their mother, you could still find the traces of their father's impact in them.

The roof path of St Mary's orphanage home has a rough but deep hole at the top, it seemed like an escape route for the disturbed individuals but rumor has it that figures appear at the rooftop every night, figures that cry like a baby yet having an adult voice. In different occasions, people suggested that a group of figures appeared from the rough top causing lots of panic in the west wing of the orphanage, these days people avoid going towards that part and the children have been forbidden to embark on any task that would lead them to that part.

On one occasion, a dead animal that was still bleeding was discovered around the region wrapped with white and red clothing. The animal was placed in a semi angular form like Antarctica occultic symbols, white chalks, hawks feathers, a pair of white eggs ( not chicken) were all found around the west wing. The area was officially named "The Disturbed".

One of the punishments the Matron of St Mary uses to scare people from doing anything contrary to what she instructs is the idea of carrying a disobedient child to the wing of disturbed. A place of many figures and many voices, crying baby with a manly tone, such a scary path to be at night. On one occasion, Rex disobeyed Zyana the matron of St Mary's orphanage and was taken to the hill side of the west wing, abandoned to be scared or rather devoured with fear, anxiety gripped the young Rex as he fainted with the slightest rustling of leaf and gnashing of unknown tenths. He could swear that he saw eyes lurking around the corner with deadly whispers and ghostly scents that filled the area. He could perceive blood freshly grilled and juiced, milked from an unknown being. The only thing that could come out of his mouth while he pleaded for mercy was " mummy help"!!!

Rex would wake up at the middle of the night after his encounter and sit at the middle of the hall with candles lighted around him, he would go quite for days, sometimes weeks unable to talk about his encounters in the hillside of the west wing.

Rex would randomly laugh at serious matters and frown at laughing matters, one time he went for a burial, everyone was weeping but he was laughing, something very strange must have happened to him out there in the hills, his tendencies and life perceptions have changed, he seemed really oppressed and possessed by the strange figures.

Because of the nature of St. Mary, people could not escape at night, in the morning, the orphans could not escape too because they are under the care of the agency, the Last three girls that attempted to escape one night was never found. Their clothes were found hanging at the riverine area of the hill, torn and kept like a wolverine strike. Fear gripped the children and teenagers as they saw and heard the stories afterwards.

Echoes of " We are one! we are not divided!! we are one big family!!!" reverberated round the coven as the winter breeze hits hard on the surface of the rusty west wing. James and Jenny could hear the voices while driving through the road to the city gate of st. Mary. "that could be their anthem", James suggested, thinking that the voices were renowned voices of recognized orphans at the St. Mary's orphanage. Soon, the tricky road became deadly as the wind tilted towards their direction. Jenny exclaimed, quite mysterious.

They parked their Wagon truck and awaited for the clearing of the dust to be able to see clearly before embarking on the few miles drive to the main gate of St. Mary. While they await, they heard a bang on the left back door of the truck and quickly alerted to see what could have hit so hard, to their dismay, the breeze must have brought a dead ox to the car but the ox has blood all over it. What seemed like a lovers drive has turned to quick panic. Stuck inbetween thoughts and stuck in the middle of the west wing and St Mary's Orphanage capital, Jenny could barely comprehend what was happening as evening suddenly started turning into night and the light above started fading to darkness. James who had heard about figures always lurking around the parameter took his keys that was slanting and started the car, he tried driving slowly to leave the area but he seem to be going round in circles. Soon, a voice echoed loud from the back of their car screaming "blood", they quickly turned back and could not see anyone, at this time, Jenny busted out crying. For one who believed in the tradition of after life, she started calling upon Mary the mother of Jesus to help them. James on the other hand was using an old rusty compass to navigate their way out. At this point, he was willing to drive home but the distance between their stand point and home is farther than the distance between their stand point and the orphanage. Every sound from the breeze sounded horrific, they could hear sounds like an earthquake, a mighty rushing wind accompanied by death itself, they could hear sound of river and the chilling nature of cold breeze, all of these contributed to their anxiety, while death awaits at the other corner. James took his registered pistol and started shooting towards all direction until the twelve bullets got finished. Then they heard another baby scream with a man voice shouting " I'm coming for you!!!!!'.

James took quickly winded up and decided to drive straight, he made up his mind to not die like a coward. "it's best I die by accident than dying by the hands of these demons". He drove as fast as he could remember to the point of no return, or so he thought. He ended up hitting across trees and passed through the wind storm, headed towards the gate.

As James and the wife Jenny drove through the lonely aisle, they could hear birds chirping, the sound of frog indicated that there was a riverine area, the insects sang to the Merry and the lovely voices from St Mary's orphanage which is distance away from their lane. while James was still trying to process what happened in the last 2 to 3 hours, Jenny screamed as she caught a glimpse of a young girl standing by the side of the road laughing.

She wore white with blood stains all over her, she was faced in semi circular direction but her view was quite visible, she has an animal skin, Jenny could swear that she has 6 toes, a part of her was man and other part of her was a baby nature, she carried a crucifix, a fading lantern and a knife. James could conclude that all these was a dream. He started driving faster, but the farther he felt they were, the closer the girl, it was as though she has the same speed as the car. The girl with the man like nature appeared just in front of them and James was unwilling to stop the car, he ran her through. James and Jenny came down to see what they hit and to their surprise, they only saw black blood, the nature of the blood is that they were still panting as though they have beats. They were acting cloned and was trying to merge with one another, it was as though the creature had disappeared. soon enough, their car started and started tilting towards them. No driver, and the car was Mazda 2002 manual. The car would juggle, blare its horn and move in a speed light boat towards them. Jenny was known for her athletic stature, so she was not a burden for James as both ran for help. James picked up his phone to call 911 but network suddenly ceased, and their batteries went flat. Along the line, the trees had a continues rustling as though something heavy was coming and lurking from within. As they awaited their fate, they saw a baby holding a staff, wearing white and maroon, accompanied by group of teenagers with knives shouting "kill! kill!! kill!!.

Jenny passed out, and James could not hold his breath, it was as though something was injected into the atmosphere.

As at 7 am the next morning, James woke up by the snoring of Jenny, and he was stunned. His head aches and he could not pin point what had happened to them. He woke Jenny up and she was shocked too. " I thought I was dead", she claimed. But how did we end up in our car? how did we end up at same place the breeze started blowing? I thought we moved, I thought we saw the gate of st Mary's orphanage? All these questions were left unanswered as Jenny and James sat looking at each other. Jenny remembered that they took a bottle of vodka for their trip, but that wont be enough to make us both tipsy and sleep off in the middle of the road, Jenny thought.

something really lurks around the wood, they concluded.

scared to their bone, they drove through the road to St Mary, also looking for the blood stains of the teen they hit, to their shock, no evidence of accident occurred