Gold
347 Words
While the ladies looked after Carey’s cold dead body, the man came back with a plethora of strange wild flowers and herbs in his hand. One of the ladies took the herbs from his hand, while the other kept praying with her eyes closed. Then the woman singled out the herbs and flowers and placed them one after the other in a straight line all over Carey’s body from top to bottom. Ram counted seven of them, placed carefully starting from his forehead to his feet. He thought they were making this up and was expecting them to crush the herbs and turn them into some medicine. But then the three of them held each other’s hand and sat beside his body and closed their eyes, like they were meditating. 30 seconds went by and nothing happened, Carey was still not moving and Ram was getting impatient. But soon enough Ram felt a strange warmth coming from the ground underneath. The ground was pulsating like it was alive. He could hear a low hum emanating from under his feet. Soon the soft green grass swayed back and forth as if an invisible wave was passing through them. He noticed that the plants and trees around him made a low sizzling sound as if they were talking to each other. The earth was shaking, the trees were talking, the birds were chirping- mother-nature had come to life!
Ram looked at Carey’s body, the herbs and flowers, placed upon his body were beginning to dissolve into his skin. Carey’s cold body slowly seemed to come back to life, the clotted blood and the stab wound was healing itself. Two minutes later, Ram saw Carey trying to breathe through his slightly open mouth. He’s back! He’s alive!
A minute later, everything went back to normal and the strange people opened their eyes and smiled.
“Mother nature had brought him back,” the man said, “but we still have to rid him off the darkness that has seeped into his veins, or else he might not wake up,”
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