And the story begins...
PROLOGUE
Tumbled...
Stumbled...
Her feet trembled...
And she crashed... Her face kissed the mother earth, well, the rough and rude avatar of it. Someone jeered, no, actually gloated from behind. "Huh! That serves you right. Self proclaimed oh-so-mighty supergirl has fallen weak before a man! Admit it, you are nothing but a dainty little flower, Raichand ."
"You know... there's something called dehydration...SIR!" she pronounced the last word as if she were chewing some bitter medicine. " It's a scientific fact that men have 5% more body water than women. I admit, you win, when the matter comes to thirst."
" I always win ... my so called LOSER WIFEY! "
"Hey! That was NOT a marriage, okay? And don't be so happy! I haven't finished yet. We, the girls have more lipid storage than you guys, you know... Be ready to lose miserably in the upcoming hunger games...Mr Wing Commander! LOSER!" She sat on the sand leaning back on one hand, laughing, her other hand guarded her eyes, her skin glazed in the desert sun , where golden rose and milky white shade had melted together...
"Arghh! You and your dorky lectures! I pity your future husband." he sounded irked while he laid his hand before her. "Get up, Raichand. "
" Water! I can see water over there!" Her lips broke into beautiful smile. She got up from the golden bed of sands and sprinted. Her loosely tied bun got undone. Slashes of wind made her long silky tresses fly.
Just like she used to fly her fighter aircrafts.
Her amethyst eyes were shining too brightly , an unusual dark purple shade that set her apart amidst the crowd . At last those eyes found a source of water, that too a huge lake . The water was so clear... so blue... so tempting to resist. And why should she resist? Her throat was drying out of thirst for so long, her lips are no longer supple as they used to be. Desserts might be rewarding experience for the palate, but an African desert was not, at all.
He followed her in a hurry, the girl who had been with her in every earthly realm.
They had walked together, they had drowned together.
They had flown together in the sky, they had fallen hard on the earth.
He was not her knight in shining armour. She was not some fragile princess. She was an avian warrior, just like him.
" Swara! That not a lake, I'm afraid." He despised the almost vacant look in her eyes. " That's mirage, all you're seeing is nothing but a mere optical illusion."
The Hindustan Times, New Delhi
An Il-76 cargo and a Mirage of IAF 2000 crashed in Congo: 1 killed, 2 missing
AFP , Bunia
An IAF Ilyushin Il-76 cargo aircraft and a Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jet crashed near Congo- Central African Republic border while delivering relief goods for a refugee camp . Flight lieutenant Arvind Rao(25) had died in the spot . There is still no update about Wing Commander Sanskar Shergill(31) and Flight lieutenant Swara Harold Raichand(24), who were flying the aircrafts . They had been deployed to Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping contingent. Wing Cdr. Shergill displayed stunning performance over last few years as a Garud Commando in Jammu and Kashmir insurgency and various peacekeeping missions. Recently he had been deployed for the second time on United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo(MONUC), where as Flight Lieutenant Rao and Raichand were also a part of Garud Commando Force lead by Wing Cdr. Shergill.
President has expressed his deepest condolences to the family of the deceased and assurance that immediate measures would be taken to find the missing pilots.
Here to be mentioned, MONUC is a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo, established by UN security council in resolutions 1279 (1999) and 1291 (2000) to monitor the peace progress of Second Congo war. More than thirty nations have contributed military and police personnel for UN peacekeeping effort,with India being the single largest contributor.
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Edited by iamreader - 8 years ago
Chakravarti Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan
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