Cursed Blessings: Tales of Twisted Fates

Exposed

The village was buzzing with activity as the adolescent boys enjoyed their vacation, thinking about their future, uncertain of their path. Many were looking for jobs since they couldn't afford to move to the town for high school, hoping to risk it and go to the town if the job was enough to pay for high school, rent, and food. A few lucky ones were busy preparing for the entrance exams, hoping to get admitted to their chosen high schools in nearby cities and towns. Others, not willing to take risks, started learning their family crafts and agricultural methods, to make a living like their parents, planning to spend their lives in the village.

Dawa and his group of boys also started to think about their future schooling and careers and for some reason, they did not continue their plan to expose Ayan. Dawa's father was a local tourist guide so he had an ambition of becoming even better, a mountaineering guide. He was currently looking for ways to get a scholarship to secure high school. The village was alive with the discussion of parents selling chickens, cows, and farmlands to fund their children while few dared to get loans for their children's future.

But, Ayan was different from them. Instead of worrying about his future studies/careers, He was enjoying his free time on a makeshift treehouse he had built on the hill with internet signals. He was gathering various interesting facts on the internet, especially weird ones. Some of his searches include:

🔍Rocks that mature, migrate, and even reproduce over time Kawakeb rocks

🔍Musical Stones of Skiddaw, England

🔍Divine Lotus flower that blooms only once a year, just for one night

🔍Photograph thoughts mind-bending mystery of Ted Serios

🔍Mysteries of Edgar Cayce, the sleeping prophet

🔍The man who doesn't eat or drink but survives

🔍Unlocking hidden aura mysteries with Kirlian photography

🔍Controversial scientist who claimed to harness Life Energy

He was looking at these weird mysteries and controversies as if searching for something more substantial—something that could truly satisfy him. He stumbled upon many sites on the internet where people discussed real-life encounters with the mystical, even giving evidence. But, wherever someone offered some evidence, they were all mysteriously deleted, and the original author started avoiding the topic.

Ayan became very joyful instead of worrying knowing this. He had discovered the existence of some secret organization/operation powerful enough to monitor and control the spread of information across several social sites.

"The battery is almost out. Some large operation is going on to remove evidence of the mystical. That means, they definitely know a lot more about such stuff. I need to somehow get in touch with such people," Ayan thought as he packed his stuff.

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It appeared as if the villagers had forgotten about the mysterious incident with the blonde foreigner. However, one person continued to investigate the incident, the leader of the adventure team. Whenever the leader indirectly talked about any person in the village with special abilities, the adults denied it tactfully while teenage children avoided the topic claiming Dawa as the strongest and smartest of them in the village as if they practiced the answer beforehand. Even smaller children evaded their answer conveying no person with special abilities in the village.