THE LEFTOVER SPELL

5. ESCAPED TIGER

Can a dream worth watching the future or is it just a pigment of the imagination. All things considered the conscious is still unconscious in the daylight. King of Hunter is what people called him. Living in the house made of remorse. Eating with the warmth of guilt became his reality. Do the destiny changes or is the character who has in a say. Existence of his memories reminded something else. The first of the life choking painful memories started flashing before his eyes of his dad, his only family, his mentor his everything fighting for his dear life, little did he it was his last of very few breathes. Enveloped with the madness to save his dad. He started painting his life with the strokes of sin. Each stroke darker and horrifying then the last. No place was left in his existence to paint it in any different reality. He stood there and opened the drawer, he finally found it beneath the pile. The sixth page of the daily newspaper is wrinkled and brown from all over. The smiling face of his dad in the bottom left corner of the 5 lines article written about him will always give him the same experience of chill for the rest of his life. It explained how his dad became the victim of a wild attack and how after fighting for his life for 5 months he finally gave up. Revenge became his destiny. Still after 6 years and 23 years of his entire existence he couldn't summon the fact about whom he was taking revenge from. The innocent wild animals or his sanity. It was almost dawn when finally he moved towards the door to retrieve the today's newspaper. Distraction is the only comfort zone. He always ignored the third page but today he found himself curiously scanning the particular area. It said expect something unexpected. He couldn't care less, all were just a hoax. How can anybody predict the coming future when nobody can predict the near seconds. He turned to the other page. There in the middle was the picture of the eyes he will never forget. It was the haunting hooded eyes of the last prey he has sold three days ago. The article was about how a tiger escaped from the claws of one of the biggest Illegal wildlife trafficking. Something just snapped his conscious. He can't let the sins of his past rule his entire life. His sins were in the full display for many weeks in every newspapers. He could finally sleep at those empty jail bars without the thought of worrying to hunt which next wild animal. 15 years later he was in the vanity of the display of his existence again in the newspapers but this time for a entirely different reasons. The president of India giving him the Bharat ratna award for saving 78 wild animals from illegal wildlife trafficking.