I couldn't believe that Sahil himself could be the reason for my suffering in this Queendom. The one who was helping me this whole time, the one for whom I was a responsibility.
My exasperation didn't find any limits. My fists clenched, as I felt anger boiling in my veins. I relentlessly caught his collar and pulled him towards me. I spoke furiously,
"Hey! If you knew this WHY didn't you LEAVE me at that position itself?! How dare did you even touch me? The soldiers were behind you! I could've left easily!"
"They were not behin-..."
"Shut up! Don't speak a word!"
I said as I felt a tear rolling down my eye, breathing heavily. He stopped immediately.
I continued, sadness and anger evident in my crackling voice,
"Now I realize why you said I'm your responsibility."
I ended up scolding him and decided never to even look at him again, and most importantly, not to trust any stranger again in my life.
I left from there, tears freely flowing down my eyes, silently. I promised myself never to back off until I reach my home, my little apartment which had all my happiness. To the family, that loved me more than they loved themselves. My family. My only home, where I belong.
Sahil was left behind with his eyes wide open and eyeballs vibrating, as if he were to know the biggest bitter truth of life. But the truth he knew was not the truth of life, but the "PURPOSE Of Suzanne And Sahil To Leap Through Time At The SAME MOMENT"
He looked back and revisited all the happenings of the Queendom, to predict what was about to happen in future in the Queendom. He had seen something horribly uneventful, that made the series of events logical. He didn't want it to happen, but he never had an option. Alas,
"होनी को कौन टाल सके।"
(Who can stop fate?)
Just then, an arrow, that seemed like a piece of thin wood with a pointed end went through my upper right arm, leaving a cut of a couple of centimetres on my skin that bled profusely. I knew Sahil was still standing behind me. I also knew that he could stop an arrow easily.
Without turning back, I asked him,
"You could have stopped the arrow, right? Your reason for why you didn't stop it is because I left you and you don't need me anymore?"
"No, that's not it. The reason is that I don't stop MY OWN arrow that I could shoot without a bow."
I wiped away my tears, held my right arm and said,
"I don't trust strangers."
And I left from there. But still, his words were not the ones anyone could believe easily. How did he shoot an arrow without a bow? Did he throw it like a sphere? I didn't know. But I didn't seem to care. I was to win the competition between him and I to find the teleport first. We had parted our ways, never intersecting again.
Sahil went towards south whereas I went northwest. Like the heat before the monsoon. The shine and brightness of the sun was taken away by the temporarily staying dark clouds. Afternoon seemed like evening and visibility was minimal. If a wild animal attacked towards us it would have become difficult to even notice the attack. The ears were the only sensory organ that could lead me to the teleport.
Also, my upper right arm was bleeding and so I had to tear some part of my dress, roll it around the upper right arm and hold the wound with my left hand. In no time, the weather became cold and breezy. Trees waved with the wind, cooling my scar with mild winds. The winds send a wave of shiver in my body that washed over me. My hair was left open that lined my face like a lightning strike lining the sky. My foot left footprints on the soft soil and humus below me.
I remembered the times when I enjoyed in the Queendom to calm my mind from thinking it as a curse, a trap. It was almost 2 hours of me walking and limping when I felt tired.
I wished to sit down, but the birds screaming their necks out and the ringing sound of their voices that entered my ear prohibited me to do so. They reminded me of how Sahil took me running just because he wished to have some company in the trap. And this time, I won't let him win the battle of finding the teleport again.
I reached a place that looked like a dead end. Because it was not a forest, but a settlement. I didn't see people at first. But then, when I saw people, fear arose in my mind. They were the real tribes that lived in the forest and the one Nishant spoke about. In no time, I didn't even realize that I was surrounded. I knew now that I was dead meat.
I hate to accept it, but now that Sahil was not here, I was truly going to be a dead meat. Few of the tribes caught my hands and tied them to a wooden pole. Soon after that, my legs were tied. I had no sharp object to break the strings that tied me. Fire was blown in front of me, at a distance of a metre. My heart sank.
Meanwhile, Sahil roamed around like a hermit, still walking. He saw a ray, a ray of hope under the dull sky. His mind which was tired of thinking about the future was now full with energy. His eyes shined now. Still, there existed darkness in it, dark of the victory he had. There stood in front of his eyes, the teleport, shining in bright violet colour, radiant like lava. The way to heaven, the way to home.
"That's MY WIN, Suzanne!"
•••••
Sahil wins.🙂
He's such a smartie~😇
Suzanne needs to face a big ordeal.😢
Character development?
So that's all for today, folks!
Next chapter releases on Monday, until then,
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The Mystery Girl
Misterio / Suspenso"It was dark, darker than black. Spider webs all over, clinging down the slim lane. There stood in front of me, a grey painting of a grey Queen. Only her crown shining in vibrant colours. I looked at it, around it, and above it. As my steps reached...
