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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
Its a full moon night. The moon is shining with a great radiance sending light to every corner of the setting but the demure setting of the landscape denies to conflate with light and remains shrouded in darkness and hides many secrets under the covers of eerie isolation.
Among the landscape's possibly endless area, a secluded fetching bungalow holds the attention. It is surrounded by darkness and has only one balcony which is full of lights.
The balcony is composed of crystal. Ever bit of light, thus multiplies to its best possible extent to refine the wonderful setting of the scene. With many a candles arranged on both its end, the setting shines with unending radiance.
A woman enters the balcony. Her face is hidden by darkness and she walks gracefully towards the center of the balcony. She looks up and finds the moon untoward and thus turns around. And just as she does, the flame of a candle gives birth to a peacock feather. All candles die out and balcony becomes dark, the only source of light being the unending shine given out by the feather.
As the feather rises from from its incipient position, it gets brighter and it goes up to cover the moon. With absolute light and nothing else it blinds lady who covers her eyes for protection.
The feather then comes down slowly landing on earth. Ulupi and Iravan watch it. An strange fear grips Ulupi. She looks at Iravan who is going ahead to grasp the feather but he is not able to do so because it rises and goes up to shine with great brilliance which blinds them. Iravan collapses on earth while a shocked Ulupli looks at the feather from between of her fingers as she has now covered her eyes. But her vision is ephemeral because she is soon blinded and has to close her eyes.
With absolute lissome, the peacock feather travels with the air and enters a dark room through the window. With its light, it brightens every corner of the room and comes to vision a family picture of Panchals and Atlantics together. It falls and glass shatters into pieces. From the picute, Shubhi's image dissolves and can not be seen. The broken pieces of glass soon turn into blood and flow away.
And a voice beings in the background,
"Some secrets, when come into light, give nothing but destruction, true destruction!"
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