Doomi Golo—The Hidden Notebooks by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609175016
Publisher: Vearsa

“What day is it?” Atou Seck wants to know. Monday? Tuesday? Wednesday? He has no idea. At Gouye-Guewel, the days go round and round in a circle. They are all exactly the same, like blindfolded children playing hide-and-seek. Each one pulls the mask off the next one, and so it goes on, forever and ever. For several weeks now, Atou Seck has been unable to distinguish dawn from dusk.

He has finally managed to undo the rope. For the first time since their arrival at the house, he can move around freely. As the only person in the deserted streets, he is in control of Gouye-Guewel. He feels well. His lungs are drawing in the sea air and the breeze is caressing his face. He feels invigorated, cleansed somehow, of every impurity.

But near the zoological garden, he spots a number of giant vultures sinking their powerful beaks into rotting corpses. As he is approaching them, they let go of their prey, lazily flap their wings a few times and come to rest on the roof of a house or on the power lines. As soon as he gets out of their sight, they return to the carcass and carry on ripping it to shreds.

He is lucky enough not to come across any guerrillas.

He could escape from Gouye-Guewel if he wanted to. But the thought doesn’t even cross his mind. There is no way a couple of monkeys are going to make him run away; after all, he is Atou Seck, the son of Fara Birame Seck and great grandson of Sangoné-Penda Seck, who heroically sacrificed his life at the Battle of Somb! He will go back and sit under his acacia tree. There, he will wait patiently for the hour of his revenge. Under no circumstances is he going to turn his back on the enemy swords!

When Ninki and Nanka hear him opening the zinc gate, they pounce on him with fury. Atou Seck pretends he has no idea what they mean and says innocently, “Ah! Here you are again, my dear little chaps! Grandpa went out to stretch his legs! Why didn’t you come along to keep me company? I am upset with you, I can’t deny it!” His contrived cheerfulness makes them even angrier. They are clobbering their chests, stamping their feet, and finally they leap on top of him. They shower him with insults, and Atou Seck realizes that they are speaking the same language as the young soldier and his fiancée Marguerite.

Ninki ties a piece of cloth over Atou’s eyes and mouth, leaving only a tiny slit under his nose to let him breathe. While the lashes are raining down on him, he remains completely rigid. Even when blood starts dripping from his wounds, he does nothing to defend himself. Now Nanka goes to the kitchen and comes back with some ground pepper that she sprinkles on his open wounds. Atou Seck hears himself uttering screams that sound almost inhuman, and he begs them for a coup de grâce to finish him off.

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