Chilly King Cyril warmed by thoughts of Dr Nandi in the absence of magic beams from Eskom
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- 02 May 2023
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The lady’s cunning – and her pretty face, of course – get the Boneless more energised than Eskom ever could.
That morning, King Cyril the Boneless, who ruled over the falling-apart Kingdom of WakaBanana, had a short jog that left him slightly breathless, a hot shower and a hearty breakfast ahead of the meeting with his trusted trio of confidantes.
This trio, which had not only the ear of the king but access to other external organs, was made up of the Right Hand of the King, the Left Hand of the King and the Other Hand of the King. Those, at least, were their official titles; their given names, as per a tradition lost in the mists of time, were Gog, Magog and Cheryl.
King Cyril took an extra cup of humanely sourced and ethically ground coffee into the chilly office he called his own, though it really belonged to the nation. The weather was cooling now, with autumn shading into winter, and he wondered if there’d be enough by way of magic beams coming from the Temple of Eskom to keep his office warm. That, surely, was going to be something he’d have to discuss with his trusted trio of advisers.
But they were, or at least Cheryl was, keen to announce, almost before the king’s bum had reached a resting position on the lushly embroidered cushion on his chair: “They have been caught!”
King Cyril must have looked a little surprised or lost, because Cheryl immediately added: “The runaways, the escapees, Thabo and Nandipha!”
Optimism! That’s what I like to hear. I, for one, am optimistic we will get to the bottom of this debacle, that we’ll find out exactly how Thabo escaped…
“Ah, yes,” murmured the king, thinking back to a pleasant reverie he’d been having the previous night about the pair of murdering, thieving conpersons whose adventures had nonetheless captured the imagination of the nation. He repeated what he’d thought of as a great title for the TV series sure to come swiftly upon their story’s explosion into the public mind: “Thabo and Nandipha: A Love Story…”
“Oh, very good, Your Majesty,” said Gog.
“Of course, they’ve only just been caught,” said Magog, “so the Netflix contract is not exactly imminent. What’s important is that this capture is a great triumph for our great land of WakaBanana.” Read More…
