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The warlords gathered in session

The grimed faces showing it all

“How is he?”

“It is touch and go”

“We owe it to him

For what he has done for us

Now that he is fighting for his life

We too are facing our political dilemma”

“We have to fight

We can't give up now

We have ruled for decades

This election will not make any difference!”

“You forgot the ground has changed

So much bad publicity on white rajah's wealth

I believe there are truths in the report”

“Even he has accumulated his wealth, we can't say it”

“WE can't hide from the people

There are sources they could verify the report

We are in deeper troubles than before

I suggest we use him as a last minute effort”

“No we can't do that

It will be a bad taste trigger our doom

We must campaign on what we had done

In this way we can safe ourselves”

“We have lost the hinterland villagers

There is this local activist campaigning for change

She was effective in influencing the locals

We have no other to challenge her”

“Our people never heard of her

Suddenly she was the local champion

Attacking us and our policies

The battle cry “Change let us be free!”

“We can use our laws to detain her”

“You are just crazy which spells our doom!

We should let her campaigns

We shouldn't do hasty decision”

“Our leader in ICU

We have a native tearing us apart

We should contain her

So the natives will vote us!”

The warlords couldn't agree

Which branch of the law to use

In this election everything counted

One wrong move the doom prevailed

They couldn't agree

So they left the matter as it was

They had to formulate what to do

Their own leader in ICU

They left for lunch

Each gone back to their own party

They hoped to convince their supporters

Everything was as usual

The black witch pointed at Model

“You have to come with me

I tolerate no nonsense from you

And Jargon stay where you are

I am going to talk to your sister

This is a woman's matter......

I know my sister will not approve

Bless her soul she was gone in heaven”

“But aunty we are in campaign to change

The government of the day here and now!”

“Young woman you listen to me first

I am your aunt so you better listen!”

“The present state of affairs

I am to blame for all it is worth

I was the one who made it happened

For the white raja and his warlords

Those were the years gone by

I was greedy for wealth and easy life

I used black magic to turn the whole State

Into believing the white rajah would help them

I was wrong in many ways

White raja got his bargained

I got nothing banished to the forest

By my mother and my sister

They had the power over me

For decades they held me there

While the white raja prospered

I was living in the miserable forest

Now I want to amend my ways

Through you, my dear niece, to set me free

You are the only one in the family who has the gift

Otherwise how you influence these villagers?”

Jargon strained his ears to listen

What he heard was the whispering wind

He could make what they were discussing

Broken Tooth had no interest in them

“Come Jargon we better plan

There are many villages we must go

We must do our part to effect the change

We have been in the darkness for so long”

“Ai ya Broken Tooth!

We can't work alone

Without Model helping along

We can't attract the crowd

So I suggest we wait here

So what my aunt telling my sister to do

I heard stories about my aunt

She practiced the black art of magic

My father told us then

She could influence a big circle

What she wanted you to do

Nobody could escape her clutches

She was a mean witch

She made people suffer and then pain

She was a powerful witch in those days

Only my grandmother and mother could hold her

One day they banished her to the forest

Until the day they died she could be free

Now I believe my aunt is walking angry witch

She may want her revenge....”

“You are talking rubbish

Your aunt want revenge?

On you? Or your sister?

Both of you never banish her to the forest”

Jargon switched on his radio

He listened to the news.....

“The white rajah hasn't recovered

Now the doctors are puzzled”

Broken Tooth listened too

“His body is sinking by itself

As if there is a vacuum sucking him dry

The doctors tried many methods but failed”