Cursed Daughters

Chapter X

X

The waves were turbulent. That should have been her first sign. But she simply noted the change in the weather as she would have in real life. She walked towards Monife, as she always did. There was certainly comfort in familiarity.

She would stand beside her dead aunt, they would look out on the horizon; and eventually she would wake and go on about her day.

So when Monife turned her head round to her, Eniiyi was not prepared, and therefore her brain did not immediately process the fact that something was different this time. Then she saw it: tears were falling fast and free from Mo’s inscrutable eyes.

“What is it?”

And then the woman spoke with Eniiyi’s voice: “Not again.”