IJE AWELE
Once, in a village by the river, souls were bound together.
But when love crossed where it should not, they stirred the wrath of Oshimiri, the river god, and a curse was born:
Their descendants would carry the mark of the Osu, shunned and outcast.
Every born son would die by drowning, never reaching old age.
Every daughter would live under the shadow of servitude, bound to the gods.
Centuries later, the curse still bleeds. Families bury their sons before manhood. Daughters are branded unclean. And in the present day, a soul, restless and half-broken, suddenly wakes in another time in the body of Olaedo.
Trapped in the past, it must walk a path not its own, it remembers being a boy, yet the world calls him maiden. Worse, every step he takes threatens to replay the very choices that birthed the curse. is he the only one in the past?
To break the curse, love must be chosen wisely, or history will repeat itself, and the river will claim its due.
But how does one fight a god?
And when every lifetime tangles hearts together, how does one choose who to love?
who are the reincarnated souls what really happened in the past what is olaedo's role in all of this? will he or perhaps olaedo be able to resolve it. why will oshimiri curse those who he is meant to protect?
is this just a story of the past or curse of the present.
This is Ije Awele a safe journey, or perhaps the most dangerous journey of all.