The Arm

Thank goodness I found someone who seemed to care enough to allow me stay for the night

I've been on this journey for days searching for someone....my lost uncle who was the only relative I had left after the murder of my both parents

I lost my only sibling two years ago as well to measles so now I'm left to face the world

"you are welcome"he says to me beaming with smiles and taking my bag

" thanks a lot sir ..." I appreciate him sincerely and take in the look of the house ....he obviously lives alone cos no one else came to welcome me......nothing special about the house..just one frame hanging on the wall...in it there was a picture of a bloodied hand cut from the elbow and it looked very real ...like alive

Its already night so minutes after I'm snoring lightly on the only bed in the room I was offered

It must have been past midnight when I woke up to get a drink

As I climb down the stairs I notice a figure in front of the picture I earlier saw and noticed that it was the man that owns the house

Why isn't he sleeping...I wondered

'"I've since been begging him for forgiveness but it's like he's bent on revenge " he says like he's answering my question but i just seem more puzzled ' who's the 'He' ' ...i wonder again

He sits me down and start talking

"When we went to a war . ...both of us ..." He said pointing to the hand on the wall which was now bleeding in full glare scaring the hell out of me

"and I mistakenly sliced his hand off when he was used as hostage against me ....he eventually bled to death on the war front but he insisted that I took the arm home....his last words were ...I'll be back for you ever since then I've been waiting but it's like its time now cos the arm is now bleeding furiously...go to bed"he concluded

I try to sleep but I can't ..i only know I did when I wake up the next morning and move down the stairs yawning only to find the man lying in his pool of blood.....sure enough the arm was beside him writing a note

It read if u value your life ...make a run for it....and I did just that ...........I took to my heels without looking back without my luggage in fact.....

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