As Long As I Have You // A. Ghale

A Different Perspective

As I hop out of the truck, I gather my stuff and. shove it into a bag. I can't help but embrace the warm sun soaking into my skin, and the wind blowing through my hair. Things were...peaceful. For the first time, in a while. 

"Oh! It's Miss Carver." I hear one of the women say from inside the building. I made my way to the very front door and just took a deep breath. I really wanted to find out about my dad, but what else would I learn along the way? Stuff he didn't want anyone to know? Things Mom wouldn't have wanted her to know? I was scared, yes, very scared.

I was gently greeted and welcome with open arms, led through the establishment with a 'tour guide' talking me through the history of Kyrat and the traditions and their God, Kyra. I learned about the Tarun Matara and how Bhadra was to be the next one, following behind Ajay's mother, Ishwari's footsteps. Still, I had lingering questions about the entire thing. Some pieces of the puzzle didn't app up.

"Do you know anything about my father? Gilead Carver?" I ask, and the woman goes silent for a second. She walks me over to a quiet corner and sits me down on an elaborate elephant blanket, spread on the floor.

"Your father was a hero, he was one of the main leaders of the Golden Path in the early years. He was, however, best known for leaking the story of the Tarun Matara and King Min."

"Leaking a story? What story?"

"Gilead believed the main leader of the Golden Path, Mohan Ghale, was responsible for sending his wife, Tarun Matara at the time, to spy on the King, Pagan Min, to learn and gain intel about his plans to destroy the Golden Path efforts." She spoke softly, but not leaving out a detail.

"What does this have to do with my father?" I was waiting for her to get to the point, but I'm very impatient.

"I'm getting there." She gives me a hand gesture and I apologize. for the behavior. I internally laugh at myself for being so rude.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." I giggle, not wanting to be rude.

"As the story goes, whilst Ishwari was 'spying' on King Min, she fell madly in love and they bore a child together." She stops and looks at me again, and I just give a blank stare. She what? With who?

"Wait, what?" I probably looked like I had been told how babies were made for the first time, I was completely taken aback. What will Ajay say?

"Supposedly, Mohan didn't like this at-"

"Well, of course!"

"Mohan was so upset with his wife so he decided the most logical thing to do was kill the child, Lakshmana, in return for his wife cheating on him with the King. Ishwari then got quite upset with Mohan and murdered him in return for killing her daughter in return for her cheating on him. Does that make sense? Well, I guess that's it." 

My jaw completely hit the floor when she finished. I had to get to Ajay. He's been wondering about what had happened with his father and the connection to Pagan and his mother...it all makes sense now. It was as if the pieces had fell into their perfect positions and everything made sense.

Ajay has to know.