INFINITY: EXISTING TO EXISTED

Episode 16: The Threat

_____ March 23, 2018 _____

- doc -

Suddenly everything came back!

Jumping off that gate and flashing the light on the building, I stood there. It was still the same. The walls, the grasses, the burns, the feels. Untouched for years, KRI was lost in the chaos of the calmness and striving to live in the forgotten land. Gosh! This was the total Horror version of the KRI I once was a part of. I felt weakness creep up my knees. All those terrors and those media lights falling on my eyes, all the dead bodies of people I laughed with, the burnt hands, the burnt work, my two and a half years of life that went by without any proof, everything just flashed right in front of me. The same fountain side, where I cried on my knees, when I saw the whole place burning even after 18 hours of the blast. The garden, now dried up, where we all had a favorite plant planted, so we could always be happy for the importance we held in KRI. The huge front door which had the best architecture in the country, back when it was built and clicking a picture in front of it was always a pleasure, an honor. I never imagined that coming back to KRI would be this difficult.

A small inch of this huge spear named 'Anxiety' pricked my heart and all I wanted to do was go back. Tanik and Manhar were just staring at me, sadness in their eyes. They felt me. If I didn't like them, I probably wouldn't be here. T told me on the way here that Kanishk was Tanik and Tanav's brother. I will always be grateful for what Kanishk had done. This was the best way to show him that his sacrifice will be preserved in me. He was always the smartest and the loving one. If I came to know what had exactly happened that night, it will probably mean I'm just making his sacrifice worth it.

T guided us towards the building after taking the light from me seeing I couldn't hold it without a shivering hand. The darkness was creeping into the sky, into me, too! We entered the place through the window they had broken the last time they were here. Time is a Funny Man, you know! I  once had the building keys with me, 24 cross 7.

"Any new updates? Anything?" the earpiece was killing me. The level of pain I was in right now was the level of excitement the kids had!

"Don't scream!" Thank you Tanik. "We are entering." He had the camcorder whose strap, he firmly wrapped around his neck holding it in his left hand.

I just blankly followed both the boys, not even recognizing the place. Wherever the light fell, it looked very different. I couldn't even imagine that we actually worked almost 24 hours a day in this place and had no idea of the timing unless we stepped outside! And now, no power? 

First floor.

Nick and T just dragged me with them not even letting me take a look at the place. T had a small torch using which he kept seeing left and right to see if anything has changed, while Nick had the huge night light. They then stopped in a room. I even don't know which direction we went!

This isn't the room I think it is, is it?

Well, yeah, It is. This was our archive room which sometimes became our partying room. Everything this room had was happiness and laughs. Every time someone entered this room, we knew it meant, end of one trial of experiment and hence, No Stress, No Work Load, Have Fun Folks! But, look at it now! My heart sank even more. It was destroyed completely!

"Guys? Anything? What about the feeling, is it there? You didn't even mention it. Doc, checked the walls?" April was trying hard to make a conversation.

I went near the wall that shined under the moonlight that came pouring in through the moonlight. Feeling the hoarseness in it's touch, I slowly scrapped a little of it and put it in my bag. The eerie feeling that I felt, the one the kids told about, was the maximum in this room! These kids were right, there is something here! This feeling was accelerating as I neared the walls. That Spectacle girl might be right. Infinity might actually be here. The feeling was a bad one, getting worse every passing second. We should leave as soon as possible!