Chapter 170 - The Human Girl Aderonke III

At least, Aderonke's family 's reaction to that was even on the mild side. The generator to the other flat as locked under a constructed iron cage. It then became that whenever the family needed to put on the generator, they would have to open the cage and then wheel it out a little so as to get to the key or the starter wire.

It was as complex as that!

Aderonke brought her hands out of the pocket of her bum shorts and then hugged herself just as a wind blew past, blasting her with cold all over. 

"Ah, Yes. That is more like it." She m.o.a.n.e.d out inot the open and then shrugged her shoulders. 

It was so much different from the insides of the house which had been very hot, despite the power which had just been restored. And even  though it threatened to be rather cold, she was not having any issues with it. Because in fact, there would be no reason for that.

The person that she was, was someone who would need a lot of cold environments to cool down her raging personality. And this was not just figuratively. After all, she was  Sage, one of the rare humans who could access and cultivate Agbara. 

She stood still, just looking u ahead of her. The wall before her was painted in a fading hue of cream. It had towards the bottom of it some algae and mounds which had been growing there as a result of the fact that the place was often wet. 

Just right above her, up to the roof of the block of flat was the water tank that the whole block of flat shared. And the fact that they all shared the tank was a contributing factor which made them feel so lazy about turning it off whenever the tank was full because they would often leave that to their neighbors to do. 

And because of the way the algae made the wall unsavory, the duty of turning off the water pump often fell to their house. And to her, especially. 

"Tch!" Aderonke sighed, remembering how many times she would have to race out of the house just because she had to switch off the water pump before the water tank over filled and then made the whole of the backyard water logged. 

She often hated it. The others who lived in the flats which were close to the water pump would remain inside. After all, it was not to their flat that the tank was placed so it was not their business. Except for when the water suddenly finished, only then would they come up to investigate. 

"Blasted neighbors." Aderonke said to herself. :"I cant wait to graduate and eff out of here anyways." 

She shrugged and then took a step to her left. 

She continued that way, waling the narrow space between the wall  to right now and the block of flats to her left. She moved past the caged generator housing that the next door neighbor had done and exhaled, the air was becoming stale now. She kept on walking, leaving the pillar that held up the next stairway which led to the flat above behind her as she neared the portion of the wall which had the electric meter and the other other electrical components that she had not bothered to know. The only thing she knew there was the water pump switch and that had been her only business there. 

The electrical portion of the wall had a rusted iron shed just above it, erected on a horizontal piece of wood which was in turn nailed into the wall. Under it, the meter was there with some other wirings and then, just beneath the ceramic white casing of the meter was the water pump switch that she was accustomed to. 

She walked past there, coming around the block of flat by the corner, taking he bend there. 

To her left now as she was the walling of the block of flat and then to her far right was the well from which thy all drew water from when the water stopped running in the compund. It was farther down the compound, much after the area which had the electrical fitting of the meter. 

A little after the well, towards the gate side was the squatters lodge of self contain apartments which had been built just against the wall. As Aderonke walked past it, she sighed, coming closer to the driveway which was just directly before the gate. 

The ground was paved concrete and she had to make conscious effort so that her footwear of bathroom slippers of rubber would not make noise. It was rather late and she did not want to get to be termed or affixed a blame just because someone heard or saw her walking out at this time of the night. 

At the dive way, only two cars were present. One was a black SUV and it was further down the driveway, just before their flat. It was her father's own and just after that was a sleek Benz in the color of white.

She moved to her right now, facing the edge of the self contain apartments which had being built against the wall which the gate was positioned in. She moved closer till she was standing squarely before the black gate which had the bottom sides of it having dust here and there, the dust making that side to look brown and somewhat rusted. 

She stretched her hand to the pedestrai lock of he gate and then heaved out as she made to open it The lock on the pedestrian gate was somewhat complex. There was a padlock placed over the lock, snapped shut had the key to open it had been shared among the flat owners.  Beside that lock, there was also another type of lock in which she would have to insert a key, a different key and pull back the latch when the key connected to be able to open. After that was the placement of a chain wrapped around the padlock and the gate handle. 

The people in the compund were extra careful. And it was not too much. the place had once been burgled into so, everyone had been o their toes shortly afetr. 

She had forgotten tot take it but she did not really consider that she would have to open the gate. Which was why she paused just as her hand got to it, wondering why she had stretched out for it. 

Aderonke pulled back from the gate and thn put her hands on her h.i.p.s. She looked up intot he sky, obseving the moon and the sky above. The moon was being generous tonight, which ahd been why it had been rather easy for her to make her way outside without needing a torch.

However, that was not all the reason. It was just a part of it. Beside, there was power at the moment, which meant that the security bulb of the people in the compound would no doubt be on, except for those who were not around or had forgotten to turn it on. 

Now, she stood the risk of being placed for a free blame passing if anything did go wrong in the compound. And it did not matter if she did not know about that. So far as she was outside at this time of the night and she had been seen or heard by someone. 

That was the problem she was trying to avoid. Using the gate would have definitely compounded the problem because she was sure the ones who lived by the self contain apartments by the gate had already gotten used to the sound of the gate opening and closing. So, if she did take it, it would not be long until someone peeped out to investigate.

"Ah! Not like I was counting on that anyways." She sighed and then took a step back. 

The next moment, she slamed her ahnds togteher, lifting her head up to the sky and then ;ifting the rigth foot up into the air. 

She heavd and then slammed her foot, stomping down intot the ground as she jerked her head down too, looking to the gate with a determined gaze, her eyes burning with fire. 

Her pupils flashed and her lips quivered. She jerked her hands off the other, down to her side and then...

"Law of War: Furious Fire!" 

Her entire body exploded in flames as she suddenly dashed forward, tot he gate in a flash, her whole body exploding in a gust of flames like a rocket as she speared into the air. 

And in the next moment, her entire body was all over the gate, a flash of light sparking out at the other side of the gate.