The Legend of Ram - Sight Beyond Sight

Inside the Fairyship

Right now, all of them are sitting in a large Meeting hall with Maharshi Markendeya at the center. He remains as lively as he was. Maharshi Valmiki is sitting right by his side. Generally, he is a composed, engrossed person, but for the time being, he seemed to be a little bit of anxious and over-excited. Rest of the team is speechless!

The hall where they are sitting right now is located in the central part of this 'vessel' or ship. After crossing many stairways and rooms in between, they had to reach for this place.

The catch is, the term 'stairway' is used because they had steps and one could easily climb up with the aid of them on the top easily; there's practically no doubt in it, but, nobody had to cross over each step manually to go upstairs; once somebody steps on the first stair into the staircase, it starts moving automatically up! The upward motion ends after someone reaches the top! It's a scene, indeed! Countless times almost all of them fell on each other. Once Dharmakhshema fell upon Maharshi Valmiki and-

These stairways are just a single part of the riddle. But, what about the riddles around the other rooms there? In addition, the lights in those rooms and everywhere? Those lights were luminescent as well as a bizarre! The source of the light is unknown, no fire was seen anywhere, but there was light coming out of something and it had no heat! Has anyone ever heard something like that? The walls seemed to be made out of crystals, the same substance is used to build up the floor; such clear that one may properly see one's face into it! Some of these rooms were warmer; some were much cooler; one of these rooms had a large, polished stone in the middle of it. All of them were surprised to discover that there were many 'Eyes' attached to that stone, but on close scrutiny, they understood that none of these 'Eyes' did belong to humans or any living beings ever! Human eyes blink, but these don't. Human eyes are white, but these 'Eyes' had a variety of colors and shades. Red-green-blue-violet-pink – and many more colors they had! Subhamangal was scared at the sorcerers staring of these eyes!!

Among these stunning rooms with all the mysteries inside, a particular one must be serving as their 'Morgue'. This particular term 'Morgue' is used intentionally, because preserved bodies are generally not found everywhere out open, except something like a morgue itself. Countless dead bodies belonging to different species are preserved here; each is kept within a glass-coated enclosure and submerged into some kind of... must be a sort of preservative liquid. The point is, almost all of these species are unknown to Maharshi Valmiki himself, and the same thing goes for his disciples. Some of these species were humanoid, biped; a few of these humanoid animals are much taller than an average human being, another sub-species to this category are relatively smaller than these taller ones, but good-looking, attractive, cool-looking appearance. However, these two species had different facial construction features.

Ashtabasu noticed that Maharshi Valmiki was abstained from his surroundings for some couple of moments when he had his eyes on this taller, giant species, it seemed like he was recalling something in his mind, buried in his past. The body Maharshi Valmiki was looking at on the other side of the glass walls of the container was much taller, at least eighteen feet or more. What is he thinking actually? Ashtabasu also noticed that Maharshi Markendeya too spotted Maharshi Valmiki's sudden change in the behavior, though he did not disturb him for the moment; Maharshi Valmiki kept staring at the body for some moments more and after that, he seemed to come back to normalcy again.

Countless whimsical, grotesque, bizarre type animals from different species were preserved into that single place; nobody had the slightest idea of how many more there are actually! They saw a 'Bird' out there; it has wings so it could be coined as a 'Bird', but, are they really that big and enormous? Do they have any relationship with reptiles? Else, why would these apparently different species have such close Morphological Similarities? Why this 'Bird' has such sharp, piercing and pointy canines? This 'Bird', or animal, whatever it is has no similarity with any birds they have seen before except those wings by the sides. They must be something else... what about a 'demon'?

And, the smell in the room! They felt that they would have started vomiting right now! Intense putrescent, rotten smell shrouded across the whole room predates over the aroma of roses that was supposed to suppress the smell. At a certain point, it seemed that they would be losing their senses sooner or now!

Maharshi Markendeya must have felt pity at their condition; he did not wait for anymore. He then brought them into this larger hall, let them have their seats and served them lukewarm food, cold drinks all by his own hand. They look much better now.