The Curse of 1977 (Book 2)

Chapter 6

Negril, Jamaica

"What can you hear, my boy?" Old man Sunta said into Cloyse's ear in a raspy, Jamaican dialect.

Cloyse, feeling completely restrained and helpless, heard everything, from the roaring waves of the sea that sounded as if he were right next to them, to his old friend, all the way to a wheezing grunt that seemingly surrounded him.

Cloyse struggled to move, but it felt as if his entire body was shut down. Just trying to wiggle one finger was like trying to sprout wings, it was virtually impossible.

"I...I cannot—

"Do not try and speak yet, just focus on trying to see." Sunta spoke softly into the young man's ears.

Cloyse did as he was told and bore down in the hopes of trying to revive his vision all over again. In fact, his eyes were wide open; it was just the blackness that appeared more like fog that kept him from seeing clearly.

"Dey gone...dey gone far away," the wheezing individual from somewhere within the area groaned.

"Be silent, devil!" Sunta scolded the man. "Now, continue to focus on what you want to see, my boy."

Cloyse squeezed and stretched until the blackness in front of him gradually formed into splotches.

"I can...I can see it." Cloyse fought to utter in his own broken English.

"Good, good, now keep on!" Sunta gleefully urged.

Cloyse kept stretching before even more forms began coming into sight. Before long, globs and splotches eventually turned into brightness. It was so bright in fact that Cloyse had to shut his eyes momentarily just to shield from the rays.

"Can you see now?" Sunta asked.

Cloyse ever so slightly nodded yes before going back to trying to twist his finger all over again. Much like before, attempting such a task was arduous, but the man kept at it until one moving finger turned into three, and after three, an entire right hand.

"You can move now?" Sunta sounded surprised.

"No good, boy, you be dead by sundown." The nearby groaning man uttered.

"Please, keep on! You are almost free!"

Cloyse persisted until he was able to fully operate his right hand. All of the sudden, the young man began to cry like a child. He wept so hard that his entire body began shaking inside the chair in which he was seated.

"God be praised, he is coming back!"

individual kept gasping in and out as though

man ended up crashing onto the

"Are you

Crawling about on

"Careful." Sunta said as he hoisted both Cloyse and his chair

Cloyse felt all over his hairy

"Three weeks, I am

Soon, the other man began making a sort of snoring racket before saying, "You be

his chair and locked his hazy eyes upon the man who

had worn the same clothing for years without ever changing. His emaciated, grey-haired, bare chest looked

"Where did you

around and stood next to Cloyse. "Doi was returning to de world when I found

fool," Doi questioned with his head still hung low. "I

do know where my sister...is." Cloyse

Doi shook his head from side to side before saying,

His heart was beating so furiously, but the words he wanted

diligently studied the old man's entire body before sitting back and breathlessly uttering, "They're gone

dat, but he is an old fool!" Sunta

no, Arthur, Akoni and Damerae are gone,

The thundering

are." Cloyse said. "I saw

Sunta's voice shook. "Wherever dey are gone to, not

more, mon. Who won test de devil now

Cloyse continued to sit and stare at Doi for endless minutes before he glanced back

"But where, mon?"

of here," Cloyse sullenly

"Kingston, mon?"

Cloyse said. "I want my sister, old man!" he reached for

no big sister, mon." Doi shook his head. "No...I

reveal a pair of white eyes and fangs before both Cloyse and Sunta. Before long, a sinister growl ran up and out of Doi's throat as his face began to stretch outwards forming what looked to be a

could do was try and scoot backwards, away

Doi. He took the stick and struck it against

in flames as he roared and howled in agony. From there, Sunta grabbed a hold of Cloyse and dragged him out of the blazing hut and onto the sandy beach before both men limped as fast as they could away from the burning structure that went up in flames a lot quicker than

"Look back no more, boy." Sunta helped a staggering Cloyse down the empty

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