Purified Tomorrow: The Mad Awakening - Episode 20

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Joyce slumped into bed after her rigorous training. Diana had ensured that she got a better training because of her people in the Punishment room. When others had finished their training and had entered their crumbling house, Diana made her stay back for more training. As if it had been waiting for her arrival, a part of her bed slid open.
'Oh my!' She jumped in utter surprise. She stared at the part of the bed that slid out . It looked like a tray, and had a paper that read in it. She picked it up. It read:
 Come to the Library. Tell no one. Meet the Librarian. 
'Guys, I'll be back', she said as she got to the elevator.
'Of course, that's how you've been going all these while', Regina said from her room.
Shut up your mouth.
Joyce stared at Regina's dancing mouth and felt like removing her teeth with a single punch, but she went her way. The management could have sent her somewhere but the library. She hated the library, and the knowledge it depicted. It was her major turnoff even when she was at school. They always claimed she had a photographic memory that if she was a serious type one, she would have won every educational award. When she entered the Library, she went to the Librarian. 
'I was asked to meet you.
Yes?The busy white librarian said and looked up

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. You Are you the Joyce?'
Sonia nodded nonchalantly.
‘Oh I thought
Thought?
Never mind
She watched the woman rummage through her bag. You were expecting someone else right, like one of those yellow fevered, unripe people like you.
Are' The Librarian began to say something, but held her breath. 'Follow me.
The woman limped away. Her right foot looked alright but on closer scrutiny, she discovered that it was a false foot.
Will you walk fast?  I am the one with the limping leg.
 Joyce sucked up her anger and walked faster. If it was to walk fast, she could do that, she walked past the woman and went away. 
Wh- where are you taking your little blackness to?'
Was that not what we were being taught? That no one should have the right to call anyone by their color?’
Im a librarian, not a Peacemaker.
Then, you should be punished
What do you think Im doing here, being stuck with insolent girls? By the way, this is the right way.
Although she hated the library, the path they went led out of the books area. She turned to see the books shelves gradually begin to shrink to only figures. The woman brought her key and opened the door, locked it; then, another and another and another. She inputted a passcode into a new one, then used another key then another passcode. The next one required her hand scan.
Like seriously?
We still have few to go and will you let me concentrate?
I didnt'
Shush
They went to about three doors before she brought out her keycard that opened the door to a massive room. The room was made round so that every chair faced a podium built into the middle. The podium was raised high to the extent that the person at the front, if short, might have to strain his neck to listen to the speaker. The librarian led her to the front.
Welcome.
 She looked upward. Then, she saw her father.
'D How did you get here?'
Come here' he said, stared at her for a while and laughed. 'I am suspecting you've met my twin or have seen him. Well because we are two, people always assume that we are one. We have so trained ourselves that one could pretend to be the other. Very few people know of our existence and it would remain so. In other words, you're not to speak a word of this to anybody'.
She nodded as she tried to soak in the moment in her mind. The empty room made his voice appear as if he was speaking from a different part of the room.
'I've summoned you down here because of the rebels, Groust. They have waxed great, and we have reasons to believe some of our people are involved'.
She swallowed hard as she watched him talk. Her mind went back to the fact that Diana just recruited her. That means they were in danger. 
'My children, the two of them, were killed by the rebels and we need to eradicate them all. But our forceful way of flushing them isn't working. Youll be the one in charge of doing that for us'.
'I'm new here'.
'No wonder my brother wanted you to be trained, and made sure your name was among those that would come this year. The boy is so stupid. He still wouldn't learn to always cover his tracks.

Read " The Thorny Path to Europe " by the same author ( Akíntayo Akinjide )

. You're not here for fun. I know you're my brother's daughter, invariably my niece, and one of his fear is your death because you're supposed to be world leader after our death.  You're the only heir to the throne, and you must learn how to do the right thing. I guess you know the right thing and have seen the video of the end of the world. Did you watch the videos you were shown?
Yes '
'Thats what destroyed the world. But the truth is this: the world used to have languages, but few of us know'. 
'But you can catch Diana yourself and question her'.
'Diana is one of our best. No matter how much we try to get any information from her, she wont oblige. You've been kept in hiding all these while for a reason, no one must know anything about you till we announce you'.
He turned to the Librarian. 'Return her and get us the full information, you're her handler'.
As she returned with the Librarian, she agreed with her uncle, she needed training. A good P.I must know how to infiltrate the deadliest of places. She would play both sides for a fool.

*End*

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