Good and Evil part 2
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( Silak burning the lamp)
“So you won ? Why are you behaving like a normal one? If I had won something I would have gone berserk.”
“No. lordess it is night. This land might be protected at it’s boundary from the spirits but still we haven’t made the bridge and the fencing at the west part”
“You, sure are worthy of being the community leader Silak and your patience is something I wished as a power to acquire”
“I heard you were in a cell for 5 years lordess. You must have lot of it though “
“I barely remember anything.”
“You are a woman of power and will. You will surely”
“So why were you talking about the spirits Silak?”
“I am afraid of something my lady?”
“And what Silak? You are a leader now. You shouldn’t be afraid.”
“ Can you keep a secret?”
“ Yes”
“ I don’t think I am good enough to be a leader”
“ You won with the major votes of the people here. Your sister only got 50 votes as I heard while you got 319.”
“I know but my sister is the thing that worries me?”
“What do you mean?”
“I don’t know she does seem as if she only looks at the negative side.”
“What makes you certain?”
“Well, father told me that she was born at the time when the Count broke the shield here when he marched at the unknown lands with his army of jackals,vultures,hunters.”
“So?”
“ Everywhere the Count goes evil things arises. 19 years ago a plague killed almost 500 people here.”
“500? This place has merely 400 people as I can see.”
“yes, even back then it was a mere 1000”
“This is extraordinary. How is that possible?”
“You don’t know anything about Paraag, do you lordess?”
“Well tell me”
“Didn’t the lion tell you anything or the sky. I heard they have met the Mage herself.”
“No the lion might be a powerful being yet he is unaware of the aesthetics of the world like you .”
“I will tell you the story when you return here back”
“Return? Me? Why? Your lands are safe.”
“Don’t worry. You will. At the mean time I want you keep an eye on my sister. Until the bridge and the fences at the west are not built can you stay here?”
“ Well I can for you but your sister makes you worried?”
“ When I told you about keeping a secret. That was it?”
“ So your sister is someone who can’t be trusted as you say”
“ She wants to be the better child”
I laughed at Silak’s words . The power that I acquired did had me brave than before. I and SIlak reach the shore as we see the workers built the bridge and fences. Out of sudden a weird smell made me dubious.
“Silak something is making my nose go pointy”
“Your powers lordess.”
“Yes and my nose says go to that place”
“ That’s’s the coal mines. But there is no work going on nowadays there”
“ Well we will have to go there Silak. I don’t feel something right”
We reach the opening of the tunnel mines.
“ This tunnel had been closed since a year. But what’s with the light. Your powers are indeed acute”
“ Look ! Your sister and she has a dynamite in her hands”
Silak closes my mouth as she forces me and takes me out of the tunnel.
(panting and sobbing)
“I am sorry Lordess. I should have told you at the time you came here, about my sister. She is an evil one. She always hated me and saw me as a competition. My father always used to tell her to be disciplined. She has this group of hers, some 7 people who follow the Count”
“ The Count?”
“Yes lordess. They believe that shielding and controlling the population had made the land a cattle land.”
“A cattle land? What is that suppose to mean?”
“ They say people have no sense of life. All they think about is fearing what is outside what they don’t know:
“ They must be the Count’s men then?”
“Yes lordess , I suspected that the day when Tandar brought them at our house.”
“Have you told your father?”
“No, he is sick and got a heart attack recently. I fear for his health always and Tandar’s nuisances doesn’t help that too.”
“ We need to take this problem seriously. That was a real dynamite. That could destroy an entire area.”
“ How were you sure?”
“ I don’t know but my eyes could see clearly what her intentions were?”
“ Your powers lordess. It’s aiding you well. But we need to stop my sister”
“ Yes she must be planning to destroy the bridge or the fences of your constructions. She does despise you SIlak”
I reach the tunnel once again. Silak had only said about not hurting her sister that I reached Tandar in no time.
“ You lordess. How dare you come here?”
“ What do you mean Tandar?”
“ It is because of you that my sister won.”
“ To be precise she is that good and you are that evil Tander. You still have youth as you can do great things like her”
“ I am nothing like that b***h……….And if you try to stop me, you will not see her”
“What………….”
I fall in the floor as one of the men had used a log at my head. Blood poured from my head.
“She must be dead now . Tandar We will plant the dynamite at the bridge and the hut”
“The hut? That old place why?”
“ No questions girl. The master wishes to blow the hut also. He has grown tired of your schemes.”
“ Wait you are my men.”
“ We serve the master and the Count. We joined you because we believed you were evil”
Hearing their words I woke up as punched one to see him fall in the ground with some of his teeths fall in the floor. I couldn’t believe my strength. In no otime I took all of them in no time. As I was about to ponce on Tandar, I see a shadow form and in a few moments Tandar had disappeared. I go out of the tunnel looking for Tandar.
“ Lordess you have done your job here”
“Skymaster?”
“Yes you have your power but those were merely men that you beat. You will need all of your powers to face the Dracula. And even that may not be sufficient. But to reach Sumatra you need to find all of them.”
“But Tandar and Silak?”
“ Leave them be. Tandar is a mystery and like Silak said you will return back here”
“So what do you want me to do?”
“ You need to reach the other end of the west lands around here. Neera is waiting for you there.”
“But the bride and the fences?”
“Tandar is gone now. So the bridge and the fences will be built on time. But you need to leave this place”
“Tandar? But Silak?”
“ Your destiny is Sumatra child not here. SO leave now. You have the strength and the speed of the tiger. Take the horse from one of Kavari’s stables and leave towards the east end.”
I was shocked but I was sure that the Skymaster never lied. So I stole a horse from Kaveri’s stable and galloped towards the east end.
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