Jide didn't know what fate laid ahead of him, and with every passing moment he was terrified to find out.
Why hadn't this happened when he wanted to take his life? Why now? Why now that he was determined to live it out and become someone worthy enough to go back home? Why now that he already had his Mother's forgiveness and had a family to return to.
How cruel fate was.
Although blindfolded, he could still tell a little of what was happening around him. He could feel the carriage swaying from let to right, and although the carriage was quiet, he knew that he wasn't alone.
The people who had come to take him were in the carriage too.
The fact that they wanted him alive didn't ease him fears at all.
The question of what they wanted him for kept bugging him.
It made him completely restless but he was wise enough to keep still.
Then finally, the carriage came to an halt, rough hands grabbed him painfully tight, pulling him up, then dragging him out of the carriage.