Part 3 (8)

Suzie began to walk at a slow pace to the other edge of the corridor. Her uncle shadowed her. She reached the two last doors, sighed, and decided to open the left one.
She inserted her key in the lock and turned but it was not the correct one. She understood she had the right door's key in her hand.
Uncle Bibi glared at her and asked her: "So what do you want to do darling? I give you the key in my hand or you open the right door instead?"
Suzie yelled: "This is so much stress." Then with a mild tone of voice, she appealed to the ancestors: "Help me Dibiyê, god of wisdom and I promised to name my first son after you."
A bright light descended from the ceiling, moved around her body then evaporated.
"Give me your key, uncle Bibi." She said.
"Are you sure, darling?" Uncle Bibi asked her but she did not reply. She simply stared at him, then extended her right arm and showed the palm of her hand.
Uncle Bibi understood she meant what she had expressed. So he put his key in the palm of her hand. She turned, looked at the left door one more time, sighed, and unlocked it.
To her amazement, the room was vast and glowing. It diffused incredible scents. It had two beds placed against the wall. One was on the left side and the other one was on the right side.
Suzie neared the bed on the left. She removed her scarf and threw it on the blanket. Then she turned and looked at the bed on the right where her uncle was already lying.
She extended her two arms horizontally and let herself fall onto the mattress. A profound siesta seized her and she was transported to the Kingdom of Iyô, the god of deep sleep.
Uncle Bibi was already bowing before the divinity. A strong and intense light was floating above his head. Like her uncle, Suzie immediately prostrated. Then a voice was heard: "What can I do for you?" and It said.
"Almighty Iyô, please take us where Babida the lumberjack has been imprisoned." Uncle Bibi answered.
The divinity's light became bigger and bigger till the place was entirely invisible, then disappeared.
"Oh my goodness, who are you? How did you get inside here?" Babida spoke to a big shadow in the right corner outside of his cell.
No one answered. So he approached the cell's door and attempted to look through the bars but it was too dark and the shadow had ceased to move.
"Who is there? Speak or I shout and the guards will come down." He threatened.
He waited for a while to see if anyone would appear, but still, nothing occurred. Finally, he convinced himself that he was having hallucinations probably because he had spent quite a long time already in the penumbra of the underground. He thus calmed down, returned to his bed, and took a nap.
"Hey brave warrior, wake up!" Suzie whispered.
Babida blenched. He got off his bed and neared the cell's door. He saw the young maiden of his dreams. It was dark but her eyes were sparkling.
"I can not believe what I behold. I must be dreaming awake. How did you penetrate here?" Babida queried the young lady.
"Well, it's a mystery but the most important thing is that we are here to free you. We have grasped echoes about your unjust arrest and given the great hazard which weighs on the empire, we could not stay aside and witness a valuable defender as you perish without being able to fight." She explained.
"We?" The lumberjack asked in astonishment.
"Shut! Yes. Me, my uncle Bibi who is also here, and big momma at home."
"Where is your uncle? I can not see him anywhere." Babida questioned the young maiden.
"He is over there, at the right corner. He is still asleep. We smelled the scents of Iyô, the god of deep sleep. That's how we landed here. I mean, he granted our prayer to appear here. Hopefully, soon myuncle will wake up." The young woman told Babida.
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