randhir said he needed time to decode the letter , i somehow felt relived knowing that randhir would be my side , no matter what the circumstances are ! i know it's queer, i mean he is my enemy right ?
anyway we continued our journey to the oasis called *El cairum* .the caravan travelled the whole night . the silence was the worst aspect . when the mere groan of camel - which before had been nothing but a groan , now frightened me because it might signal a raid .
randhir , on the other hand , not seemed much concerned with the threat of a war approaching . i wonder how he manages to be so calm under such a situation cause i was literally freaking out .
with the first ray of sunshine falling on the earth , ending the reign of night . there in front of me , where the little stars had been in the night , was an endless row of palm trees .
we've at oasis .. randhir said .. who was also up early, for a change .
after weeks of yellow of sand and blue of sky , i saw green of date palms , maybe god created the desert so we can appreciate the green . i thought .
i could not believe what i was seeing : the oasis rather than begin just a well surrounded by few palm trees -- as i had seen in a geography book -- was much larger than many towns ! there were 300 wells , about 50 k palm trees and innumerable coloured tents , spread among them .
it looks like thousand and one nights ! kaustuki exclaimed ...
we were surrounded by children , curious to look at animals and people arriving , the men of oasis wanted to know if we had seen any wars and women fought for precious stones and jewels brought by merchants .
with some difficulty the caravan leader brought everyone together to give instructions .the caravan was to live their for sometime , till then the caravan members were to share the living space with the people who already lived there . as we were visitors , we were given the best accommodations . that was the law of hospitality . then he asked everyone , including his own sentinels to give away weapons , oases was a neutral place and should remain such .
to my surprise , randhir took out a chrome plated revolver from his bag , when the dream team wasn't around and handed it to the man appointed by tribal chieftains to collect weapons .
you had a REVOLVER ?
just bought it , from a caravan member ... it helps me to trust people ..
weapons were much near to me that they initially seemed to ... i thought .
the first day , everyone was exhausted and slept in the places assigned to them . about mid - day .. randhir bashed into my tent ...
what the ?
i decoded !
really ? great .. so what's it
look ... randhir handed me the letter ... the first five lines and last five lines don't hold any meaning , probably written so that only the person intended to knows what it means . only the mid two lines are important .
so we only have 2 lines ... god ! this many lines and only 2 of em are important ..
sanyukta you want to listen to me or ...
no .. no you continue please ..
and the two lines are utter crap they don't make any sense ...
*turn him out of the Ivies .
ask zahir what his real name is*
i mean turn him out of the Ivies what does that even mean ... and ask zahir what his real name is ? i mean who is zahir now and why should we ask him his name ... i don't think this letter is important randhir ... i said ..
it is ... otherwise it won't have been with sir ... he said . so apparently these lines talk about a man zahir who lives near *the ivies* . he must have had a bad past , maybe a criminal one , as he lives there with a fake name . maybe he has got something to do with the war ...
randhir .. ivy is an evergreen climber .. it doesn't grow in deserts ... maybe someone is playing a joke on us ... i said
maybe ... he said ...
but it's an oasis so maybe ivies can grow here ... okay so our first step is .. travel around the oasis and look for ivies ..
what ? you mean travel the WHOLE oasis for ivy ? i mean ...
that's an order miss agarwal .. he said with his typical smirk .. you see that is the thing with randhir , he decides for other people . and mostly gets away with it . maybe it's his good looks or something but i didn't feel like arguing with him on this .
aye aye captain ... i said ... it reminds me of Jake and the never-land pirates LOL !!
end of part 5 (a) + (b)
so has this man with a fake name *zahir* got something to do with the war .. will the hunt for ivies get them anywhere or sandhir is getting in someone's carefully designed trap ?
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