In a world of glittering royalty where morality is synonymous to ettiquettes, crude originality is what lured into into each other's eyes and arms. Their story doesn't worship love in all its otherworldly sanctity. But they talk of blood, darkness...
A voice never truly heard, Adarkness never truly seen,
And a lo-
My bottom lip trembles suddenly, a few muscles of my face contracting in synchrony, as yet another ripple seems so wrong.
And that is the thirty-second one this evening.
This never happens. Ever.
It happened, once. When one day all the ripples looked so wrong, and then a monstrous serpent reared its head from underneath. With him-
My hand lashes out into the inky, cold waters. All the ripples are distorted in the fraction of a moment, and a few silver fish flutter away from my rude intrusion.
But I do not pull my hand out. I keep it there, till the fish come back and familiarise themselves with my skin and minute tingles run up my skin.
A small smile finds its way to my lips - that rarely happens.
But these fish remind me of myself - of us. Flittering away from him, and then right back only to-
"Sakhi?", a female voice calls from behind me.
In my shock, I retract my hand from the water. Leaving the fish bereft of company.
My heart would have ached anew from the familiarity of that if it had not already agonised itself into nigh numbness in all these years.
"Would you not return home?"
It is the strange familiarity of that voice that makes my hand still while wiping itself on my clothes. Electricity lances through me at the silken melody in it, the divine edge in those few words - the dark allure.
I almost dare not turn around. But I do. As usual, I fall for that dark allure.
Only to be greeted by a pair of midnight eyes, and the form of a Goddess. A beauty so sharp that it threatens to slice my soul into half.
She smiles then.
And it is his smile.
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Hey darlings,
No poems today. Just mystery XD I hope you like it and I hope your Sherlock senses are working to their greatest extent.
Meanwhile, I have an announcement:
My next Mahabharata-based work, and the only Mahabharata-based work of mine that I shall not classify as a fanfiction, but as a retelling of the epic, will now be out. Before the next part of this book. Told ya, we're shifting gears, and that book shall be my interlude present to you all.
See you in my first non-fanfiction work on Mahabharata - though I certainly will deviate and make it a bit of a fanfic XD (Old habits die hardddd)
Here's the cover!
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