It has just been discovered that not all mysterious body cuts or injuries are caused by witches and wizards. Some other time when you have your bath, water touches a part of your body then you feel it hurts. You check only to discover a scratch or an injury you did not know how or when it got there. It shows that it is possible to lose part of our body without even noticing it.
There are some mysterious injuries all the same. Like Obi, who could not tell how over time he woke up to find that he had bruises on his knees as well as his elbows, and not that he was involved in a fight. It took some doing to notice the coincidence and timing to diagnose that the cause of this injury was a result of his preference for the floor to the bed when his “appetite” filters in a willing female. He had been playing “the dog”. The elbow injury is the result of this supporting his body weight over her. Some injury you might say. At least this injury is less embarrassing to explain than Nkem’s own.
Nkem was walking with feet wide apart and unable to put on his briefs. A shaft injury he sustained not in a fight but in a play in the privacy of a bedroom. But he says it’s a boil; a likely story.
Austin’s injury had the mask of a great mystery. He was married and works with a big company. They usually send him for courses. It was on one such trip to another town―a likely place for most men in temporary freedom from their wives to vent the heat of their sexual desires for ‘a little taste of outside love’. But this time after several attempts, Austin failed to “capture” a female companion for the night hence he gave up; to sleep alone. He woke up the next morning to observe that he had sustained an injury on his shaft. It was bruised, red and swollen, having been grazed on the longitudinal half of the whole length. Naturally, it is only when it is used like a pestle pounding a mortar that injury could result. Sometimes, when it is handled roughly as a work of art by an admirer, it could scrape. Even the latter case is indicting, if not embarrassing for a married man, yet he slept alone and did not touch it. There is no way he could hide this raw injury from his wife when he gets home. What can he explain to have happened then?
At first, nothing made sense, but then, he got the picture. Not even a lie could save him from embarrassment because even the truth looked like a lie. This was the investigation report: Austin usually sleeps without his clothes on. He did the same in the Hotel room, but over a thick woollen blanket cover that was a usual encounter in a standard hotel bed dressing. In his sleep and because he had longed for a partner, his erection which assumed the natural expansion, elongation and contraction modes over the blanket in a remarkable dream lasting the whole night, did the filing. The side resting on the blanket got scaled along its full length. He had wished the course was long enough for the injury to heal before going home but he had to go home nonetheless the next day.
At home, and like a man who had committed an abomination, he waited for nighttime to discuss his inevitable story. Even the truth looked like a lie on his lips. Finally, when he managed to finish his story, which was short of his failed seductive move, the wife laughed. She only believed him because there was no way only a longitudinal half of the cylindrical shaft with a massive root tied to balls could have been used without the owner being aware. Or can you imagine otherwise? Maybe he used it like a mouth organ or a corn gliding across the mouth rather than within a hole to produce music “full of sound and fury”.