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Aideyan Daniel<br />

Passenger 13E<br />

them, then I suggest they use a taxi cos’ the driver is taking me to the meeting with the<br />

airline people,’ he said matter <strong>of</strong> factly as he continued ransacking his brother’s study.<br />

Kelly watched her brother-in-law as he violated what used to be her husband’s altar,<br />

searching for documents that he had no idea how they’d come about. She despised him<br />

but she had become too weak to fight, her fully shorn head is the picture <strong>of</strong> a woman<br />

subdued. She blamed her parents for insisting that she obey tradition, endure and remain<br />

in her husband’s house, if only to prove that she had no hands in his death. But how could<br />

she have caused a plane crash?<br />

Daddy???<br />

It was Joshua. She was sure she just heard her son from the living room.<br />

‘Your children are beginning to lose their minds just like you. They have started seeing things<br />

too,’ Obinna chuckled wickedly, his hands still shuffling carelessly and hastily through the<br />

files on the shelf.<br />

Daddy!!!<br />

Kelly turned to leave the room and just as suddenly, a sight stopped her dead in her tracks.<br />

Standing by the door with Justin and Josh in his arms was her husband, Emeka Amadi.<br />

She tried to scream but remained transfixed on the same spot.<br />

Obinna felt an eerie silence in the room, but he knew he was not alone. ‘Now the madness<br />

is a contagion or is it, it is heredit...,’ the word stuck in his throat as he turned around to find<br />

his older brother standing at the entrance and holding on tightly to his sons.<br />

Obinna instantly felt a hot liquid run down his thighs. He was peeing on himself. He<br />

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