The next morning, her wasp artist had built a man made out of something like sawdust with a hat of chewed-up leaves. The man was plump and looked suspiciously like Black Hat. When Della saw Sunny looking at it, it flew to the dust man’s head and hovered next to it batting its wings. The head blew away. Sunny laughed hard and clapped and said, “Well done! Looks just like him!” The wasp buzzed its wings with glee and flew out the window.
She grabbed the day’s paper and unrolled it with shaking hands. The headline read:
CHILDREN RETURNED SAFELY TO THEIR PARENTS
ABA, Nigeria (AFP)-A three-year-old girl and a twoyear-old boy, believed to be the children recently kidnapped by ritual killer Black Hat Otokoto, have been safely returned to their parents. They were found wandering the streets by two young men during yesterday’s storms. The two men declined to give their names.
“They were angels sent from God,” the mother of the boy said. “If you are out there and reading this, know that you have saved my life as you have saved my son’s, and I am eternally thankful.” The parents of the girl declined an interview, but were also deeply thankful and relieved.
Further down the page was a photo of Black Hat’s gas station. And that headline read:
GAS STATION GOES UP IN FLAMES
AFTER BEING STRUCK TWICE
BY LIGHTNING