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I was shocked.
My mother, whom I had missed so much, was right in front of me.
It didn't feel real. My mother had died at least five years ago. I couldn’t understand how my mother was still lingering at the Crossroads.
At first, I thought the mother in front of me might be fake. It could have been just an illusion that Baron Samedi had created. He was a mischievous Loa, after all. However, no matter how mischievous Baron Samedi was, he wouldn't joke about something like this. So, the person in front of me right now was my mother.
Acknowledging that made my mind blank. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to start a conversation. What should I say? What should I say...
[How about starting with the story of grabbing my neck? You know, when you begged me to save your mother’s life,] Baron Samedi said as if he had read my mind.
"What? When did I ever do that?" I replied hastily, flustered.
I pretended it didn't happen, but the truth was that I had grabbed Baron Samedi's neck when I had been half-driven mad after seeing my mother’s dead body. Unable to make rational judgments, I vented my anger on Baron Samedi. But I couldn’t have pathetically begged him to ‘save my mother’ to...
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