| 'Time' Series |
| Time#1 : Book One of The 'Secrets Duology' |
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The workings of her brain were a mystery to her own pneuma.
That's what Hinduja Rao always thought.
But, quite similar to her thoughts about her own self, was someone else aro...
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Word Count : 2100
Audio Theme : Vals | Istanbullu Gelin |
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24 | The Right One & The Destined One
Straightening her back, she turned her head around to stare at the rainy vista outside the window. The harsh pelting of raindrops had ceased just an hour ago, and due to this, the weather had turned chilly and the zephyrs chillier.
"Any photographs?" She voiced out faintly.
"I beg your pardon, ma'am?" Bakhtawar looked at her in confusion, unable to grasp the sudden change in her demeanor and failing to hear her words at the same time.
"Pictures, Bakhtawar; can you find me any pictures of Tejas Pandit?"
He replied with a thoughtful expression on his face. "Alright, let me check."
She nodded and continued, "Also, how did Tejas come to this stage? Under what circumstances was he left to live as a vegetable?"
Bakhtawar carried on with the work at hand while answering her questions simultaneously. "He went missing early in the morning on May 1, 2014, forcing the Pandits to file a missing person report that day at night itself. Eventually, the police issued a missing-person report twenty-four hours after Tejas's disappearance due to the existing government procedures. They began with the search, but nothing was found on May 2 as well. In due course, the senior Dogra—Mr. Giriraj Dogra—stepped up to help his most trusted confidante, Devaraj Pandit, find his grandson. And that's exactly what happened: on May 3, 2014, at around six in the evening, some of the Dogra security personnel found Tejas bloodied and battered inside a shallow trench, one kilometer away from the Pandit household. He was immediately rushed to the hospital. With a diagnosis of severe brain damage, multiple broken bones, broken ribs, and internally injured kidneys and intestines, seventeen-year-old Tejas Pandit was finally declared a vegetable on the tenth day of his admission to the hospital. The Pandits were devastated. Manoramaa must have been around fourteen or fifteen at that time. No matter how much the Dogras or the police department tried, the reason behind Tejas's current state is still a mystery to date." Ceasing the quick movements of his digits on the keyboard, Bakhtawar stopped with his monologue too. Pirouetting the laptop around to face its screen towards his boss, hesaid,"Here; this is his picture."
