Lost Warriors of the Sands

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Entry based on prompt number 5 :

There's a terrible drought ravaging the land, but when the waters recede from the local lake/reservoir, they reveal something no one expected to find.

Having just gained independence, India was still in the phase of collecting herself when a cycle of long drought hit her newly framed state of Rajasthan. The two-year-long drought in the deserts of Thar depleted the ages old oasis near a small hamlet, revealing something unheard-of before, to the eyes of the world.

In such times, Manasvi and Yoshini, two seemingly simple girls with not so simple lives, were learning to fight their own demons. Trying to comprehend their 'skill sets' while still hiding them from the prying eyes of the uninitiated, the girls were but lost; lost in the labyrinth that their powers created for them.

But when the excavation of the oasis bed unleashed something dark on their very land, would they stay as mere spectators? Would they let the world witness what they were hiding over the years?

A forgotten hero and his apprentice, a psychic and a lathi (a long, wooden stick) wielding octogenarian woman struggling against the shadows of their past and fighting their way through their own troubles, gear up to face the ominous danger obscuring the present of their land. Would they get lost in the sands with the sands of the time or would they emerge as the warriors – the lost warriors of the sands?