THE REVOLUTIONISTS

Chapter Seven

I entered the room and there was a huge applause. People were shouting and cheering so loudly that it felt like; it will deafen me if I stay any longer. Uncle ji was there waiting for me to come back. He raised his hands and silenced the room. Then said,

- Now tell us, how did you manage to do this?

- What did I do?' I said, and looked at all the faces in the room.

- How did the explosion happen inside the train? That was not a part of the plan!' One of them said so quickly that I could hardly catch his words.

- Well, when I went with the police they put me in charge of watching over the train. They didn't recognize me as an outsider. So, I took advantage of it and placed the explosives they removed earlier, inside the train. I turned the bomb detector off and mocked like I was examining the whole train. They didn't have a clue.' I stopped.

This story impressed them a lot. I didn't know why, but they were speechless. Every person in that room was very satisfied after being successful to avenge Vijay's death. But somehow I was not that much happy. . I was literally trying to sneak out of that place. Some sort of guilt was eating me up from the inside, because I was the reason behind of a mass murder. I never had been on a mission this big before. And when Vijay was around he used to take care of all the killing stuffs. So, I never really had to do anything.

Atreyee found me and realized that I was in misery. So, she came to my rescue. I followed her towards the door and got out of that place.

...

Some reporter was narrating on the TV,

- There have been 160 people killed, and 456 people injured in the Karsahi train explosion. The ministry is saying that it was one of the biggest attacks in the history of the nation. The rescue operation is still in pursuit. Maybe the death count will increase by the time. The families and friend of the passengers are terrified of this situation. Chirag Shribastava, the Chief Minister, said earlier is evening, "We will not tolerate any kind of terrorism on our watch. We have sent a team to help the victims and officers are still working on their investigation. As soon as we find these people, we are going to finish them for the greater good. These terrorists not only cause a huge amount of deaths, but they are polluting our society." And here are some devastating images of the incident.

They were showing the images of the place. The train was ruined; some bogies were lying upside down. And people were carrying dead bodies on their shoulders, stretchers. An immense amount of dust over the broken souls almost flooded the grounds. I couldn't watch anymore.

I was at Atreyee's home; she was standing beside me while I was watching that news. It's been two days since the attack and still there are dead bodies lying under all the mess we created.

- Do you wanna get out of here?' Atreyee said, she switched off the TV and looked at me.

- Yeah, sure.' I got up and followed her.

Maybe she could see that discussing about mass murder makes me really upset; and this one was caused by me. So it really did make me upset. She exactly knew where to go, how to cheer me up. She was walking towards the forest; not her usual place where she used to spend a lot of lone time. As we went farther, I started feeling like I could be free in that exact moment if I wanted to. The sound of blowing breeze slashing through the dry leaves, the birds chirping, the light ray that is reflected upon the shade of dusts; the smell of wet soil, sometimes I was being distracted with some wild flower's fragrance; the dears with their intimidated eyes were running away for their lives; it all got my five senses. I was too distracted by all these wonderful things that I didn't notice Atreyee was trying to tell me something. Then I suddenly woke up from that state and found her poking me in the arm and whispering,