Iwe Sina Anima

“GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!! NOW!! I have never liked you and I never wanted you!”

“Where are we supposed to go? Please we will have no where to go!! My Daughter, Your Granddaughter will go hungry!!” Tears running down her face

“I don’t have a care in the world where you to go, should have left you outside for the wolves to eat you! Your daughter will grow up to be a whore like you! Then you will feel my pain!”

“No” she said still sobbing. Cracckk BOOM The door burst wide open, lightning flashing through the room blinding the three women, whispers filling up the shadows. It arose from the darkness six feet tall skin red and wet like blood look black hair thick like wool, eyes as black as night. She was looking around the room and she was searching. She looked dead at my Mother, “No! No! NOOO!!!!!” she screamed It was dark again and her daughter was crying. She looked around the room for her Mother, she was nowhere to be found. Valentina got up and walked towards the door carrying her daughter and she left, She walked down the street she remembered there was a wise woman and man that lived at the far end of the village. Valentina walked all the way to the end of the village until she found the wise womans home. She knocked on the purple door. The door opened “Hello?”

“Hello is anyone here?” She said inside of the home flushed with many colors and statues

“Welcome, What troubles you today?”

“Its my Mother she was taken by a creature it was red and black looked as if it was wet with long black hair and black eyes”

“Yes, what transpired before this ?” Odinala asked

Through tears Valentina choked on each word “She hated me and she wanted us to go”

“Ah yes the Iwe Sina Anima” Odinala said

“The Angry Soul” a man came out as tall as she was “It feeds off anger, thrives off bitterness and hate is like candy for its soul” Pala said

“Can I save my Mother” Valentina asked

“Maybe there is a ritual to save the Iwe Sina Anima if your Mothers hatred does not consume her and she truly wants help, to change Iwe may let her go, If not she will stay in the gishea and Iwe will feast on her soul.” Odinala said

“Thank You I will try to save her.” Valentina said

“We can watch the child if you would like as you save your Mother this is usually a dangerous process and you would not wish to trade your child's soul for your Mother this is between you and her and Iwe” Pala said

Valentina nodded yes slowly, they handed her red candles, a bowl and a beaded bracelet with beads on it they gave her paper with the incantation and instructions, she took the items and headed back to her Mothers home.

She entered the house, she laid out the candles in a circle lit the candles and took the bowl and filled it with water she sat the bowl in the circle and put the beaded bracelet in the bowl, and held them and said the incantation as she held the bracelet “Iwe Sina Anima a na m arpo gi nke ka I zoputa Nnem” She repeated it. A loud gush of wind entered the room and it went dark the candles went out.

“What do you want?” Iwe Sina Anima said

“Iwe I wish to save my Mother, she is angry but she doesn’t belong there” Valentina said

Iwe stared and looked at the girl curious

“Please I would like to save my Mother”

Iwe interrupted “but she does.... belong here she is filled with anger..... always sour.”

“If you want I can trade you for her” Iwe said

Valentina’s Mother appeared in the nothingness cowering confused as to how she got there

“Tell me woman your daughter will take your place, the scales will tip your soul and if you lie it will rise and if you speak the truth it will stay balanced, each answer you lay a token”

“Great, its about time this idiot is good for something” The Mother said

Iwe hands the Mother the tokens and looks to Valentina and nods

“Do you hate me?”

“Yes” she replied and the scale stayed balanced

“Do you love me?”

“No” she replied the scale stayed balanced

“Did you love my Father?”

“Yes” and the scale lifted

“Did you try to sell my daughter?”

“No” she replied and the scale lifted

“NOO!! I didn’t love your father I was lonely and he was just there you a came and you cured my loneliness for a moment but you can not help me and your daughter annoys me so I tried to get what I could from her and no one wanted the little troll”

“You have never cared for any of us, you never wanted any of us, You are selfish. You hate but never love.” Valentina replied with tears running down her face

Iwe smirked “ Do you still wish to save your Mother?”

“No” Valentina sad

Iwe Sina Anima smile, sent Valetina back to her realm, as she left Valentina heard her Mother screaming as she disappeared. Valentina sat alone in the darkness if her Mothers home, She stood up and looked around, she walked out the door shut it and headed back to her daughter.