As soon as I read the letter, and understood it fully, It turned into a ring. A beautiful one at that, it was a single, beautiful, black diamond set in white gold. The ring looked magnificent, yet simple.
When I looked up to Robin, confused as to why the letter had changed, he explained to me rather gently, " Miss Zarina, the change was because the letter had arrived from a member of the royal family, to maintain the secrets held within, only the person who the letter is addressed to, will be able to read the letter in its true form, Only that person will be able to read the letter and as soon as the letter is read it will turn into something that symbolizes the person that sent the letter. Anyone else that gets their hands on the letter before the addressed person, will only see gibberish and will not be able to make sense of anything in the letter. I only know of three people who can read such letters, they are the three emissaries that belong to the three royal kingdoms of our world."
That particular bit of information intrigued me. His explanation made way for more questions than it answered.
As if sensing my doubts and questions, " Madam Zarina, my time here is limited, with those twins around you, there is only so much that I can disclose. The most important thing for you to know is that you are not to believe anybody completely. Everyone around you has their own motives for being near you. As for me, I am my Lord Vinash's most trusted servant, He has now assigned me to serve you until you reach My Lord's kingdom, the Bhugarbha. I will be here at your every beck and call. To reach either Lord Vinash or me, you have to whisper the name three times followed by your message."
"Okay, Thanks. But how does an emissary work? What are these three kingdoms? Why were you burning when I first saw you? And .."
I was stopped mid-sentence," All in due time, Miss. All in due time.
If anyone asks what I was doing here, Tell them, the Bhugarbha wanted to know about the person who managed to evade death so many times. They wanted to check and make sure that you were indeed a real person.
As for the ring, It should be making direct contact with your skin at all times in order to successfully communicate with us."
He then turned towards Myra, whos heavy gaze and intense concentration on our every movement looked. "My work here is done, Love. See ya later" And just like that, in the blink of an eye, He disappeared.
The silence that ensued, felt heavy. Both of us stood still as if evaluating each other's next move.
The still silence was broken by Aiden who appeared beside Myra. He looked like he was in the middle of something before coming here. His clothes were askew, on his shoulder, his shirt was torn. His eyes were frantically Shifting between Myra and I. " What happened? Are the both of you alright? Who was here? Did anyone get hurt?"
Myra didn't look like she was going to answer anytime soon, so I stepped in," Yeah. We're fine. Just a little glitch, nothing to worry about."
"NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT? Are you in your right senses? Or did your visitor mess with your mind?" Ahh, that woke her up well!
"Visitor? Who was it? And why are you making such a big deal out of it?" Aiden's face was the perfect portrait of irritation, with his scrunched up forehead and nostrils flared.
"It was.." Again, she cut me off mid-sentence!
"That hell hound from Robin was here. He said he had an important message for Zarina. Which he wanted, to deliver PRIVATELY."
"Robin going anywhere that does not belong to Bhugarbha, is a bad idea. What did he want?"
"Yeah, what DID he want?"
I responded as confidently as I could. " He wanted to know if it was truly possible. If I had actually managed to avoid death for the past 23 years. He was saying something about Bookkeepers at someplace called 'Bhugarbha'"
That seemed to calm the twins down. Especially Myra, which just gave me way and time to question them further.
" So, I'm curious, How did you know something was up? And how did you come here so soon?"
" I called him. Because we are twins, we have this ability to be able to talk to the other person whenever we want, but, It happens in our mind. No external communication needed. It is a twin thing."
"Okay..." It felt like She was hiding something from me. But I let it slide and directed yet another question to Aiden, " Then How did you get here so soon? Did you teleport here or something?"
"Yeah. I wrinkled here. We don't use the word 'teleporting', that word is mostly what humans came up with. The definitions and meanings are the same both ways, but when one 'wrinkles', that means we are forming a wrinkle in the flow of time when we decide to appear somewhere else." Aiden Explained. And I must say, Something about Myra just felt off from the time she had seen Robin.
"So what's Bhugarbha, then?"
Why is it, that every time someone opens their mouth around me, I only have more questions to ask, than anything else?
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Barely Breathing.
Paranormale"How are you so okay with the fact that you're dying? This is the end of your life Zarina! Any minute now, that line on the monitor will go flat, all the organs of your body will slowly cool down, the loss circulation of blood in your body will caus...
