One day, Satan, in his quest to torment and honor the ten lords he feared and revered, went to their expansive estate without prior notice and called them out by their names, “Ten Lords!!”
The ten lords, infuriated and insulted by this, stormed towards the source of their names being called, only to find no one in the vicinity. In this camp, not a single person would dare to stir up the status of ten lordships without first invoking their father’s name in such a frivolous manner.
Even if a person in this camp were Satan himself, it was unthinkable for him to summon and rebuke the ten lords in such a manner. What an audacity! What was happening…!
Therefore, the ten lords, feeling slighted, were on their way back. Just as they reached their door, Satan called them out. What audacity, indeed! They thought, “My ear must be deceiving me,” as they were about to enter their home,
“You Ten Lords! The one who should be summoned is summoning you! Are you deaf!? Mute!!” He taunted them. It would have been better if he had said, “What makes you so proud? That slight wife of yours won’t take you anywhere, you are just whipped,” as he mocked them.
The ten lords initially laughed at the absurdity of the caller, then as the meaning of the words sunk in, their blood boiled. For forty years they hadn’t felt such anger, nor had their blood boiled like this. They stood their ground and turned towards the direction from which the voice came.
“That lion of a man!” There’s no kin of man around here!!
“Even the blood that I did not see with my face, I have wiped off with my heart,” they said, wiping their right hands on the left side of their chest where they grabbed their hearts.
“Satan’s mocking and chilling laughter echoed in their ears……
“Your backside is what should remind you of your ordeal… all of you…. #Do you feel superior when you fall? It doesn’t escape, Ten Lords…. hahaha hahaha hahaha…” Satan taunted them as they entered their home, having previously stood forty arms’ length away.
The ten lords were enraged. They rushed to their home’s door in anger, slamming it shut.
The ten lords were tall like athletes, making everyone exclaim, “What a height!” But Satan, as they stormed into their home, uttered mocking words,
“Whipped ..whipped you say! You see them fleeing… again a soldier, he says, eh? With those skinny legs of his, hahaha… Even to defend your country with such weak legs, you can’t protect your wife, look at the gap in your legs, not even the sun could fill it, that skinny mother of yours!!! Hahaha…”
The ten lords, although dismayed by the insulter’s identity as it dawned on them,
“I have plucked the rose of Mary, thud! thud! thud! You political Satan!” saying to the ground once and to the sky, thud! thud! and continued, “You evil, I know you, like others who call me, is simple, but when have I missed it?” after shaking off their dust and tapping their feet as they murmured, entering their home.
And Satan, leaving his agenda open, “Ten Lords of Debalk,” proceeded forward in red espadrilles ‘Right’ on his feet. He continued his way, laughing and jeering…! “This whipping suffices for today. Tomorrow, at an appointed time, I shall proceed,” he said, continuing on his way, laughing.
The ten lords, having looked after their home and noticed the youths chewing khat in the neighboring huts, exclaimed,
“My inheritance is fading!” while approaching the river with a heavy heart.
Indeed, as Satan had intended, the ten lords spent the night sleeplessly. They had accepted the challenge, “Which sanctity of mine would be tempted to reveal?”
They thought to themselves. Indeed, one of their neighbors had mocked them, “Who could it be? They had been bewildered until today.
“Where had this neighbor of mine been? No, it’s a man’s voice. But it must be Assefa, he’s been gone to the countryside for work for two months… and tonight is…,” a sudden idea sparked in their minds. Aha! Their neighbor, who had been pranked by them at the border! Aha! It was him, the envious one gazing at their wife, his voice had come to them, himself!
“I found it,” they exclaimed as they rose from their bed, their wife Awakened by the commotion,
“What’s happening?” they asked.
“Silence, Whipped!” saying as they brushed off the insult Satan had cast upon them. They hadn’t known their