As Medza was getting near to his village on his way from Kala he drinks at the palm wine bar because

'It was at this stage in the proceedings, before i had even had time to get my personal emotions quietened down a little-let alone sorted out-that my Helen, the real object of my mission, for whom i had been prepared to fight a second Troy before the walls of Kala, appeared on the scene.
In this passage from Mission to Kala, allusion is made to

The narrator in Mission to Kala is

Who persuades Caesar to disregard Calpurnia's appeal?