ENCOUNTERS OF FATE [Completed ✔️]

5. THE CONCLUSION

“And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

~ Ruskin Bond

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Soon enough, the carriage was parked in the backyard of Hamill’s Villa. Praying for Dave’s well being and escaping everyone’s eyes, Gayarti sneaked out and reached the back door where one of the chefs of Hamill’s kitchen had already been waiting for her. The chef, a loyal person of Prof. Bhimsen Roy, was one of the several patients who was once treated by Doctor Dave Harrison. When Prof. Roy asked him for help, he was more than happy to oblige saying that he owed his life to them and more than anything else it was about his motherland. It was a lifetime opportunity for him.

Seeing him, Gayarti gave him a knowing smile, to which he returned the favor with a smirk of his own.

Dave entered the villa as the Navy Commander Arthur Williams. Soon enough a man approached him and asked him to wait outside Hamill’s chamber as he was having an important discussion with some of his officials.

"Commander Williams, General Hamill is in an important meeting. Please wait here for a while, he will be meeting you soon." Giving him a humble smile, he left from there. Dave sighed deeply and sat on a nearby sofa in the living room waiting for General Hamill as he prayed for their plan to work. It had to and he just wished that Gayatri had some success.

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Gayatri took a deep breath and moved inside the villa with the chef. He helped her sneaking in through the back door. Giving him a grave look, she asked, "Has anything unusual happened in here in past couple of months?"

The chef gave it a little thought and finally nodded his head, “Yes, my lady! I’m not sure whether it’s useful for you or not… but something has been going on recently. I don’t know what it is but I am sure there is something happening in that abandoned chamber. We are not allowed to go there but there’s a chamber in the basement and it is secured by guards all the time."

A feeling deep down in her heart told Gayatri that this was what they needed. Most possibly a clue to whatever had happened and that made her decide to give that place a look.

Gayatri asked him, "Can you show me the way?"

The chef nodded and said, "As I already said it is guarded all the time, but the guards change their shifts around 4 o’clock in the evening. We can enter in there at that time."

Taking a deep breath Gayatri looked at her watch and said, "It’s 3:50 right now. That means we have only ten minutes. Come on, we should leave for the basement."

Agreeing to her, the chef guided her to the basement without anyone’s notice. They both reached near that abandoned chamber and hid behind a pillar as the guards were still standing there. They couldn’t afford being seen even by a single soul.