TRIAL-END OF AN ERA

Chapter-21

She buckled up and decided to explore Darya, the brook that made her mind to blow. She took a torch holding on one hand and riding the horse with other, reached Darya within half an hour. When she reached, she was startled. Hawks were nowhere to be seen. It was for the first time in her life she saw Darya un fortified by the hawks.

'Maybe they left the place due to the transition in shift duty from evening shift to night. But this is a loophole; should be notified urgently or if noticed it can be used by other countries to infiltrate.'

She decided to return and inform as it was more urgent and was about to leave, she suddenly heard that cry again, now more intensively. A vague image of a girl crying in a war flashed in her mind. It had a feel of familiarity. She felt an empathy to that girl and went inside Darya. Amanya is no longer controlled by her brain but by her heart that flowed like a brook towards Darya.

As she was in an informal gathering she wore casual dress and felt a little uncomfortable in horse so she parked it in front of the fort and walked alone holding her torch in that dense forest. She walked in some distance and felt that this is not the Darya she is familiar with. She slowly understood that she lost her way but found it rather strange. She thought ' Darya is not that big and complicated to make a Hirangan commander to lose his way.' She consoled herself that maybe she is drunk.

A sudden wind unkindled her torch and the place was suddenly dipped in darkness. She dropped the torch and closed her eyes; tried to concentrate. Her nose caught a feeble scent of jasmine. She followed it and the smell was becoming stronger. She suddenly found this scene familiar- her dream.

She opened her eyes and saw a vague figure, a girl in white robe but the plot was slightly different from her dream. That girl followed a man in black robe which she saw in a flash. She followed them and on her way she started to sense sound of water flowing. Yes it's the brook. She went after them more faster and noticed that the girl was the source of that scent.

As she was behind them she felt that the borders of Darya are at infinity since she started to walk for more than two hours but still couldn't reach any of her destination not even the borders.

While she was following; all of a sudden she lost them. She was left alone in the middle of wilderness. She looked around and all place seemed to be the same. The scent also faded but the sound of brook became stronger.

Out of blue she heard a scream and it was from her, she could feel it. The sound of brook paused and Amanya moved ahead in a direction following her instincts. She walked moving the branches and saw her standing in front of a river weeping in agony. Amanya was startled as she saw the man was drowning and she was standing their helplessly as if she was tied. That man drowned and the girl in white robe jumped in. Amanya ran and dived to catch her from suicide but her legs slipped and she fell into the river. She fell into the deep water and was alone both of them missing from the scene. She couldn't move her legs and swim . She slowly lost consciousness and closed her eyes falling deep and deep...