CHAPTER 3 :
vardhaan sir .. really ? i did not wanted to abandon randhir's hand but had to since we were too close to the rest of the team .
thanks i muttered ...
your NOT so welcome ... he said ...
gosh ! this guy is always rude -_- ... i swear i would kill randhir given a chance . i saw kaustuki , jiggy , and everyone else . i noticed how happy they looked with this so called *ADVENTURE* ...
where were you sanyukta ? kaustuki asked .
look we went hunting ... jiggy showed me a dead rabbit with a proud smile as if he was Julius Caesar and had conquered the whole of this earth ...
ewww that's gross ... i said while looking at the poor animal who's white fur originally had turned deep red with blood much hard to recognise plus it was also disfigured probably being shot by a spear ... i felt like vomiting at this but controlled my urge . i did not wanted them to think i was scared it would give that randhir another reason to taunt me for the rest of my life ...
wow look that's our dinner ... randhir said to me .. i bet he knew that am pure vegetarian and was taunting me but this time i was hell bent on acting cool ..
i hope you guys remember that sanyukta is vegetarian ... kaustuki said concerned .. i am so happy i have a friend like kaustuki she is so understanding ...
oh please ! randhir said ... we are in a desert right ... so eat what you get .. i don't think yaha par sanyukta ke khane layak ghaas phoos milega ...so leave the *oh - i - am - vegetarian* drama !
huh i will die rather than eating an innocent rabbit ... i said in my defence
oh wow ! so the tress and plants you eat are criminals or what ? they aren't innocent miss sanyukta ? i think you owe us an explanation . randhir said
he had a point i thought ... shit ! i did not even know what to say ... hmm it's just that ... i want to .. want to take rest ... bye ... i said and left the place immediately ...
i went towards the little yellow tent where that *murder incident* had taken place .. the tent was cleaned ...no dead body , no blood at all it would have seemed just like any other tent ... i walked in somehow .. i could say i was not scared at all but that would meant lying right ? the truth was that i was shivering with fear .. i mean c'mon few hours before a living homo sapien had been killed here .
i tried to take rest but this stupid brain of mine would haunt me with those dreadful scenes of the murder ... i wasn't claustrophobic but i felt
suffocation in the closed tent ... i decided that taking a stroll would be a good idea .. little did i know where this would lead me to .
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i travelled here and there near the acacia grove . it wasn't a grove really just a few acacia trees about 20 or something ... i saw some children playing near the grove they were a part of the caravan .. they were talking in the language i don't understand so i did not bother myself to talk to them ..
i felt sad for these kids .life in the desert is not comfortable. The browbeating heat of the day aggressively contrasted by the quick, temperature dropping nights... the life sustaining nectar we call water- a foreign element to the sands and winds... The rare people, plants, and animals that call the desert home, understand a barren lifestyle most of us only see in films. Without beating a dead camel, the desert has little to offer life.i walked on some unknown trails when i saw a man with black specs and ruffled hair probably in his late twenties ... even if the light was dim i could recognize this person...
VARDHAAN SIR ?
what was he doing around here ? i was irritated with my brain , it kept asking me questions the answers of which i did not know . i thought following vardhaan sir would not be such a bad idea and plus i would get my answer as well .. so it was a WIN - WIN situation for me ..
now it wasn't that i liked stalking people or something like that . it was just that i was curious ... right from the childhood .. i remember how ankit once got punished because of my this curiosity but that is another story and i don't want to get into it really .
vardhaan sir kept changing tracks and i had a hard time keeping up with him . i also had to make sure he doesn't see me otherwise i am DEAD !
he walked and walked and walked ... my legs were hurting now ... i had started regretting my decision to stalk (follow) him now ..
after what seemed like an eternity he finally stopped . phew ! i thanked him mentally ... i saw the place we were in now , one word to describe it ----- scary ! it wasn't all sandy but a bit rocky here. there were few dunes as well and i was hiding behind one of them , i noticed the ground .. it had few dead animal's skeleton might have died starving was my bet .
i saw a man coming from the other side .. he was on a horse .. he was a hooded man and wore a black un stitched piece of cloth which covered him from top to bottom ... only his eyes were visible .. i also noticed something which made my blood go cold ... he had a SWORD.
so what now ? was he to kill vardhaan sir ? god how do i save him ? the man came down from the horse and was talking with vardhaan sir ...
i could not hear anything properly because of the distance between us .
but the last line was quiet audible ..
you would be lucky if you get from here alive .. war is on it's way ... the hooded man said
what ? what does he mean by war ? a war right when people fight and many people die , blood , weapons ... GOD what did he mean by that ...
i got a panic attack by this sudden blow ... vardhaan sir started moving away but i just froze in my place .. WAR ! WAR ! WAR it kept ringing in my head ... now vardhaan sir was out of my sight .. i was still behind the dune .. the sun was about to set ... dusk would be the appropriate term .. but i wasn't bothered about the literature crap any more .. desert is a dangerous place my experience were enough to prove it .. especially at night . i had to get back to the base camp soon ...
i struggled hard and tried to move ... i walked down a while when i realized that i was lost ... i did not even remember the way back and i did not know the language ... in every possibility i was screwed !
i was hell scared would be an underestimate ... my legs refused to go further ... it wasn't the best time to have a fight between body parts but it was something i had no control on . i sat down on the ground ... few water droplets dropped on the sand .. rain ? nope they wear tears my tears .. i was weeping .. i know how stupid i sound ... but i certainty was a damsel in distress here.
it was then i saw a women around 40 or something passing by ... i ran up to her and tried explaining her in every language in knew - English , Hindi and Sanskrit (yeah i took Sanskrit as additional when i was in school ) i tried gesticulating her but she seemed nothing but confused ... she called a few men and they started firing me questions in a language that i did not understand .
suddenly someone came up with a sword and stood in front of me ... i did not know what was happening around me . thanks to the confusion tension and nervousness all combined i passed out .
when i woke up i found myself in my little yellow tent . so what happened while i was unconscious ?man with sword , of course it is parth .. i have seen him with a sword with my own eyes . i went out of the tent ... it was night around midnight .. i reached for parth's tent .. the guard did not let me go in .. but i created such a fuss that he agreed to go in and tell parth ...
about 10 minutes of wait .. parth came out ...
what ? he asked
tell me what happened ?
idk what you are taking about .. he said
okay right ... so i saw a sword guy in front of me before passing out and guess who has a sowrd .. YOU ! so tell me how and why did you bring me here ?
i am not the only one with a sword here ... he said
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so what had happened ? who brought her there ? phew ! i'll tell you in next update ...
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