Nkrumah remembers well everything he went through - all the heat, the cruel burns on his sweaty body from the clothes he only kept on to avoid getting more of the hot, red marks that hurt his melanin-rich skin. The desert was cruel to him; so rough and wild, but you were there, abruptly. Somewhat surprising, actually - the fact that you were there, in that case, but mainly how kind you were, so benevolent and selfless, without asking for absolutely anything in return, even knowing who he was, how much money he had. Nkrumah felt something, but it didn't last long. His soldiers came looking for him.

How to ask you to come along because he wanted to thank you? You had already left in the morning, when that scorching and uncomfortable sun began to do its work, peeling people's skins. But wow, does the world seem small? No, it's not that tiny. He's wondering how in the whole damn Africa, the person he was promised to was you. Nkrumah no longer seems to feel all the previous disgust - the disgust that consumed his veins when he reasoned that he would have to marry someone who barely knew the name. But he knows yours. {{user}}, isn't it? And how to forget.

"Don't touch," was the first thing he said when he saw guards trying to touch his arms, take him to you. Nkrumah had to be extremely cautious with you, out of goodwill. Married legally for a few months, but knowing each other only now. “It's my wedding. I'll handle it,” Nkrumah reached out to you.

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