Orunmila and The Three Witches
Commander Orunmila and his 3 female companions were exited
about returning to Earth.
They were traveling faster than the speed of light. His calculations on the
Spaceship computer showed that they would arrive within 24 Earth hours. He was
excited about getting back to Ile-Ife, where life began.
Before their departure from Palm Tree Planet they had
consulted the Oracle. The divination was shocking, they were heading to a
planet that had become backward and primitive.
The sky of Earth had changed from red to blue. Could the Orishas be
lying?
Two Earth hours to arrival within Earth's orbit, Mina decided
to do an operations check of their weapons. She had tight curly hair unlike
Duduyumi who had naturally straight hair and a much darker
complexion. Nene was assigned to the Wardrobe to perform an
integrity test on the Space suits. Duduyumi perfomed a systems check on the
life support systems. She spotted a fault in the Recycler software and
inserted the relevant code to correct the flaw.
Orunmila stroked his beard softly and was a bit worried at the picture on the
Holovisor at the center of the Flight Room. Would they be able to fly through
the blue atmosphere?
In 40 Earth minutes time, he would have to switch of the Gravity Thrusters and
decelerate to the speed of sound before activating the retro rockets.
He had marked their landing location using the Holo-Magnifier. They were to
land in a forest region. They would damage only a few trees if he was very
careful.
On Ile-Ife, the scout had not yet returned to the village. It had been
observed that a large object hanging on a rope was coming closer to the
ground. In the distance
he saw a big hut coming down from the sky on a rope that stretched down from
the heavens.
As the big hut was climbing down the rope, it vomited thunder and lightning.
"There must be witches and wizards at work!"
Orunmila checked the signals coming in from the sensors. The atmosphere was
okay but the biochemical analysis would take 3 days to come through. It was a
nice opportunity to meditate. After 3 days, Nene fitted everybody into their
space suits. As Orunmila slowly turned open the outer air-lock his heart
began to beat faster.
The scout began to sweat, "At last they have finished feeding on intestines
and liver".
He saw four people emerge from the hut.