𝕊𝔼𝕍𝔼ℕ 𝕀ℕ 𝔸 𝕎𝕆ℝ𝕃𝔻 {𝙼𝙰𝙷𝙰𝙱𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙰𝚃 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚅𝙴𝙻}

8. Ashwa..... and Devika

TW : Themes of panic attack, threats and fear
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Following that man was hard.

A) Because I was too busy. I have boards... Give me a break Narayan... But no you put me up to this task.

B) Yudhishthir can't roam around the city alone.

C) I thought A and B are sufficient to convince you. Don't waste my time asking for another. I need to do vector algebra.

Anyways, as the next few days passed, I managed to find few minutes every day to entertain my time travelling house guest and room mate.

Sometimes we woul go scour the temple area, others we would walk around the streets or parks, simply to see if any newspaper sellers sat by.

We found nothing.

It's quite frustrating.

As I sat one day, hands in hair on my table, at a stupid matrices question which refused to be solved, there were two hands in my head, massaging it.

" Ahh. I never knew that you loved me so my darling Mini. Enough to massage my hair? " I said, relaxing.

" It's not her. " Someone whispered, it was unusual as I didn't recognise the voice.

" It's not? Then who -"

" Listen carefully girl. Tell Yudhishthir. Ashwa has come to find him. Stop looking for me. I'll find you again. On my own. " He whispered menacingly, whisking away with the wind, as if he was never there.

All I could do was pant. One attack on me wasn't enough that I now have to suffer for stalking someone?

Humor solves all of life problems... Right? That's what I was trying.

Who's to say he wasn't a fan of my absolute beauty....

Yeah it wasn't working. Each bated breath I took made me recall the incident at the gym. His intentions were not like those, he only meant to warn. But one seems to confuse everything in a panic. I looked around worriedly for Yudhishthir who had gone to take a bath.

He walked out in a blue dhoti, no jewelry.

Now, I had only seen my father and grandfather partially naked. That's because they romaed around the house after bath like that.

This man. I had seen him without a top, but it was generally covered under heaps of jewelry and his angvastr.

Now, my panic hindered any appreciation I could show for his physique.

" Ash -ash-" I managed out before sitting down. Fear captured my mind.

" What? Who? Ajatshatru? " He asked, voice hard at his name. That was weird.

" No. Not AJ. Ashwa. Yes. That's what he called himself. Ashwa. He said don't come af-after me. He-he'd find us again. Why! Why me! WHY ME! " I screamed finally, the fear now entrapturing my mind. It was paralysing. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't see. All I could feel was a blur.

Then, a hand. A strong hand. Comforting hands. Then two. Two hands raising me up. Sitting on the bed. A glass of water. Drinking? I could drink? No. My mouth was pried open gently. I could feel the cold liquid going down my throat, cooling the heat in my heart. The fear. Dousing the fire of fear.

" Look at me. Look at me Sagarika. Look here. I'm here. You'll be fine. Let's calm down. No one's here now. Let's just breathe. " He whispered, holding me close.