Ken, now a teenager, is with an acquaintance from the village that he knew before. Mwesigwa is his name, as he is the grandson of the creepy Chief Keewazi and son of his estranged oldest son in law Lodya.
'Lodya is pretty distant and estranged, and to me he's sometimes more restrained in busy days. He doesn't like me much, because of his unhappy relationship with my damn mother. I'm thankful they parted their ways for a pretty long time until they meet again.', Mwesigwa said.
'Wow. Have you seen your mother?', Ken questions. 'Nah-uh, she has passed away from contacting the darn smallpox caused by our folklore demons.', Mwesigwa responded.
There is a smallpox outbreak going on, because a group of really sickly British Missionaries transmitted that darn disease (it perhaps descends from Rinderpest) to lots of their colonial subjects.