ArShi SS: Cruise Adriana [COMPLETE]

CHAPTER 7: THE REALIZATION

They say that life and the world are full of demarcations..

The demarcation between genders.

The demarcation between rich and poor.

The demarcation between truth and lies.

The demarcation between good and bad.

The demarcation between living things and non-living things.

How easy has it always been for the ever so common text books that each individual would study from their childhood days to say how one could differentiate between a living being and a non-living being?

Movement

Growth

Survival instincts

Life span.

Those were only few among the many factors that would point blankly tell you what was living and what was non-living in matter.

Yet, yet our human mind would always go beyond extremes, beyond reasoning, beyond understanding, in hours of abstract thoughts, when one would readily without any hesitance personify any non-living thing..

Talking to the teddy bears in your childhood days telling them about your day, as if they were real.

Writing diary entries personifying the bunch of pages with a greeting that says "Dear Diary," as if it is going to reply to you.

Shouting at the edge of the wooden cots when your toe nails hit it accidentally, as if the wooden edge is going to apologize to you.

Speaking in a hush-hush tone in a completely closed room, thinking to yourself: "What if these walls have ears?"

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Although the walls didn't have ears, and neither did any other things classified asnon-living by science, but that night, even the wooden walls wept.

The wooden walls of suite B-58 on B-Deck of Cruise Adriana..

They wept witnessing one of the murkiest sights in their confinements as a merciless beast tormented a poor soul, the screams of which could never go beyond the boundaries of the room, but that didn't mean its agony wasn't boundless.

"HOW DARE YOU?"

The cruel voice of Ryan Roy reverberated through the suite while Khushi only sobbed, petrified at the man's inexplicable anger, dumbfound at the thought of what this could possibly mean.