Finding Contentus

Chapter 108: History Unlocked

They were welcomed back as Heroes and Kings. Morena Neosa and Malikoh Ramoth arrived in Chanco on his flying carpet, weaving through the jam-packed streets of littered confetti and cheers.

True to his word, Ramoth took Neosa to a circus show, eleven days after her triumph in Numbe. It was the fourteenth day of the first month. The sweltering sun looked like a solar disc of gold.

Neosa wore her strapless white dress with black stripes along with her white day cloak that spewed a light fog around her. She also wore sun earrings, a gold arm cuff on her right arm and gold neck rings along with her saber tooth charm necklace.

Her muscular and curvy body put the humans to shame whenever the women would gawk at her. She chuckled, thinking back to what Arrilalili and Swalili had said about her otherworldly beauty that would become just like her mother's.

She patted Kenosi absentmindedly as she enjoyed the comedy show inside the large circus tent made of red and white canvas fabrics that had an open roof. Ramoth fed her yellow apples as they rested on a circular hammock chair. Servants used palm tree leaves to fan them.

Mekal and Kufu entertained the crowd with their antics.

Neosa's mind was elsewhere. She laughed here and there, but her laughter felt... shallow. She needed to win more. She needed to win everything. She needed to win all of Constantia, as the daughter of the strongest mothefrucker in Constantia.

At some point in the circus show, a messenger arrived to deliver V's message about Kakara in Kimba. Neosa, who had been drinking, spat her apple juice out.

"KAIKARA KILLED KAKARA? BUT KAKARA IS ALIVE? AND MARRIED? HUH?" She shouted, unable to wrap her rattled head around the casual information.

Everyone in attendance stopped to look at her, even the music ceased completely. She didn't care as she started shaking the messenger to tell her everything.

Ramoth watched her with a coy smirk and waved his hand at the audience. "What did I tell you all? Didn't I say we would win Kimba as an ally one day? Has Bāba accomplished what I have accomplished? Did he win winter? Allahi! He did not! We did! We have another King on our side! Roi Gabrielle and Reine Kakara!"

The circus tent blew up in hollers. Neosa zoned out from the noise as the messenger told Neosa everything.

Neo absorbed the information like a sponge. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't believe it. Kakara was Queen? She was married to Michelle's older brother? He was King? They were making history just as she was? Not only that, but Gabrielle was close friends with Koning Kaikara and Imcke of Independence? He was trying to unite the Afri and Frenchies?

Halala! Mpho really does have a plan for us all! Neosa smiled and let the messenger go. She stared at the marigold sun and remembered the task she had given Lonan when he fled with his family to Natalia.

Royals! All of us are royals! Kakara and Gabrielle are the first royals in Kimba with their blue and green eyes! Mpho's been watching over them! Neo and Neosa were jumping up and down internally.

Then there's me. This is why Mpho brought me here. To be a King with Ramoth and Musa in Metro. Brown, green and hazel... oh! That confirms it then. I am right about Natalia!

Ayata is a royal from the Jibade family. He's the yellow eyes of Metro and Natalia! Ramoth is the yellow apple and Ayata is the yellow pineapple! Mpho! Her brown eyes are nurturing him like the hawk she gifted me with when I had my Impulse dream with her!

Ramoth turned to Neosa, barefaced. He could hear her loud thoughts, matching with his own. He remembered the look of horror, fear and loss in Ayata's big eyes, how he trembled, how he couldn't speak, even when Ramoth kissed the yellow diamond tattoo on his forehead, even when he saved the boy, after slaughtering his entire people and killing Aaravi right in front of him and Lovouta.