Story of :- Two cousin (girls)
Location:- Some part of Old Delhi, India
Narrated by:- one of the girl mentioned above
Location:- Some part of Old Delhi, India
Narrated by:- one of the girl mentioned above
Me and my cousin Vili were told by our common friend Shaun,
that we would get good information about our project on city history, from an
elderly man living in the old city. One morning, we both went searching that
old man, whose house was located behind the old shopping complex in one of the
oldest and ill- managed streets. After lot of effort put in, we managed to
locate him. Before we could urge to ask him any question, he himself initiated
a conversation on the very topic we had gone to discuss with him. As we were
not able to comprehend with what he was saying, our faces turned bamboozled.
Realizing that his words were Greek & Latin to us, he immediately got up
from his century old- about to collapse rocking chair, and asked us to follow
him to a certain place in the nearby vicinity, where he could easily explain us
things with live examples. Though we were not very sure of his idea, but just
not to overrule an elderly man’s suggestion, we decided to follow him. We were
stunned to see a man of age ninety plus, walk with the velocity we both were
not able to match, even though we were almost running behind him. Within very
short time we reached an old rickety fort sort of construction, which seemed to
be falling to pieces with every forwarding moment. He took a pause, turned
back, looked straight into our eyes, and asked us, “so girls, are you ready for
the most adventurous journey of your life?”….and we were like… “what adventure
here in?”…but we nodded in yes and followed him again.
Not
many minutes had passed by, and we had started encountering the very uncanny
and eerie pictures of an unusual place, with each forward step. We crossed
through the house like big trees, sauntered on the sticky- animal print floors,
saw the blood ponds, marched past the village full of dog-headed people, and
what not?..we both were scared to death by now and could not even go back,
because after we crossed each scene, it got closed on our backs. Having no
other choice left and nerves going numb, we did not do else, but follow him
quietly.
After
sometime, we saw a water rivulet flowing across a beautiful mountain. We felt
tad relaxed to see something which was normal to our senses. That man, again
turned around, looked at us and with a smile told us, “we have to cross this
watercourse and then we will reach the place you would never want to leave. But
….let me warn you, don’t even think of returning back from here because from
now onwards, things will not get closed on your back, which may tempt you to
run back home. If you do so, be responsible for the horrendous things that will
happen to you then after.” Though we got little frightened by this warning, we
both were happy to know that from now on, there always would be an option to
lope out from this ghastly journey. We crossed the stream sticking to him and
arrived at a ground, from where we could see nothing but water all around,
which was rising at its utmost speed. In no time, that man almost got
disappeared by pacing on the thin path way, which was, supposedly the only way
to cross the huge ocean like entity. We had no guts to follow him, as we were
jolted with the thought of getting drowned, perhaps because we both didn’t know
swimming. While we stood perplexed, a young boy of age around 9-10, appeared
there from god knows where, and advised us to keep walking. On our disagreement
and request to help us go home, he consented to help us out. He told us that we
could not go back from the route we had come, but he would drop us at a safe place
from where we could take further help and head home safe. That boy appeared
like an angel to us in the worst times of our lives. We followed him without a
question and after wandering through some good, some bad lands, we reached a
place which seemed like a small village with people like us residing there.
That boy left us there and asked us to be more careful from then on, as he would not
be with us anymore. We thanked him for his help and then he left. We could see
that all the houses in the village looked like the mirror image of each other.
We were baffled as to which house to enter in, to seek foster help. As there
seemed no difference between those houses, we randomly chose one and knocked at its door. A beautiful middle aged lady welcomed us in. She behaved in a fashion as if she already
knew we were coming and was happy that we reached. She offered us some juice
and dry fruits and assured us that after we have had some rest, the other
family members, who were asleep then, would help us out to go wherever we
wanted to. We breathed some ease and went to sleep after having the creepily
tasting juice and unusual dry fruits. Later, when I suddenly woke up due to
some freaky noises, and Vili was still asleep, I saw the most gruesome sight of
my life. I stood at the window of the room we were in, and could see the
roofless courtyard right in middle of that palace like house, where they were
slitting the human bodies and pouring some salt kind of thing in it. I was not
sure if the bodies they were throwing and cutting, were of the dead beings or
there was still some life left in them, because with every bluster, some
painful cries could be heard. I got shit shocked and my feet started trembling.
I could not move myself by an inch and could not even call out Vili to wake her
up. Next moment, there came thunderous knocks on the door and call outs for us
to open it. Before I could warn my cousin, she woke up and opened the door
immediately. There was again that lady with more women this time, standing at
the door. The other lady from the group asked us, if we had had a good sleep
after the blood juice and bones-dry fruits we have had. We both felt utterly
sick to learn that. Now, we knew, what that old man meant, when he said that we
should not think of leaving him and running out of the journey. We understood
by now, that we were in grave danger. We kept quiet and followed the
instructions given to us. We were taken to a large living room where we could
see about 50 people including kids, beautifully dressed women and grisly
appearing men. We were made to sit amongst them and asked to entertain
ourselves in the way we liked. We sat there for several hours without a word
uttered. For a brief moment, I caught sleep and when I woke up again, I could
not see my cousin besides me. I asked people around, where was she. They told
me as she was feeling very tired, she went for a long sleep. Though I doubted
what they said, but had no choice but to believe them. After several hours of
not sighting her again, I became restless and started ambling across in the
large living room which though hardly had enough space to walk. While moving
rapidly in stress I stumbled upon a sack, which was laid across a sofa. The
jerk my feet gave to the sack which was loosely locked, made it open and a hand
plunged out of it. My heart almost stopped beating. It was my darling Vili’s
hand, still holding the bracelet I had made and gifted her on her last
birthday. I started crying helplessly and felt wretched at the site of my sister
lying in pool of her own blood. Next moment, a lady came and stood by my side.
She told me, “ do you remember the cries you could hear some hours back when we
were seated together?, and you asked me who it was… it was your beloved sister
who was made to entertain, though forcefully, all the men in our family, one by
one..and must say she did her job well..and hence she was paid back with the
reward she deserved…see, how peacefully she is resting here, and soon she will
be utilized to be served as the juice and nuts to our new guests. And please
don’t fret, we won’t whip away from you the opportunity to show your flair.
Soon our men, who by now, would have turned hungry again, would come here to
trial your caliber. Good luck girl.”
Incapacity
to utter even a word, move an inch more, I stood there numb, waiting to meet my
cruel fate. And then came there, those wraithlike mortal beasts to tear me
apart.
