EPISODE 4
QUA IBOE

(GOOD LOOKING, WELL DECORATED HUTS, SCATTERED ALL OVER A BIG COMPOUND, IT IS THE KING'S PALACE. THE URIMS COMES IN MURMURING AND MOURNING)

URIM AKWO;
(holding his waist) Urim Akpan, I fear the happenings in this our land

URIM AKPAN;
my dear Idip, it is very painful that we keep loosing our peole to this so called white witch

(they all sit)

URIM ETO:
my daughters are dead, from this same white witch sword

URIM AKPAN:
am sure when the white witch came, you were beating your wife or your wife was beating you

(the Abong comes in)

ABONG:
my dear Urims, the sorrowful incidents happening in this village makes me cry day and night

(Mbobo a young palace maiden runs in)

URIM AKPAN;
why are you breathing like this?

ABONG;
what is it?

MBOBO;
the white witch killed the prince and the queen, also she has taken the Princess away

ABONG;
what! guard, go and tell the Afe that his presence is needed immediately
(Afe comes in  before he finished he finished his command)
I thank the gods you are here. Afe what is happening to Idung, what?

AFE;
Abong! Abong! Abong! the ears that hears from the mountain seeketh help from above

ABONG;
Afe please speak in the language we can understand, because we do not understand you

AFE;
Abong, the answer to your question is a riddle that only the bitter heart can have a key to the answer but can never be the answer

URIM AKPAN;
we are all bitter in heart

ABONG;
Afe, we are all bitter in heart, I just lost my wife, the prince and I don't know the fate of the Princess

(Itoro, Bisong and Etim comes in)

ETIM;
Abong we greet you. my heart is determined, my treasure have been stolen and I am ready to cutoff that tree with my treasure

AFE;
Abong, only the Princess can solve the riddle

ABONG;
are you serious? I said the Princess is dead

AFE:
maybe or maybe not; only the bitter in heart can go and rescue the princess, because only the princess can stop the problem of this land

ABONG:
then I will go and rescue the princess, so that this land can stop experiencing this problem

ETIM:
Abong, Afe and Urims, my friends and I are ready to rescue the princess, as long as it will take that wicked witch out of this land

ABONG:
young men, I have my warriors, not the three of you, my warriors will do that for me

AFE:
no Abong, the gods have chosen the the three of them

ABONG:
but why the three of them?

AFE:
still the riddle I cannot answer, the gods only called them keys

ITORO:
Abong and my Urims (smiling sheepishly) my name is Itoro and not key

BISONG:
keep quiet

AFE:
go forth my idips but please don't allow your emotions overrule your quest to rescue the princess, I repeat, do not let your emotions over your quest to rescue the princess

ABONG:
go forth my children; may the gods be with you

ETIM:
I promised my dead sister that I will make sure that the white witch is out of this land, even if it is with the last drop of my blood, and I will. lets go
(they exit)

ABONG:
my dear Urims, lets wait for the next step
(he exit)

URIM AKPAN:
I am even scared of going back home
(they exit)