THE LORDS OF JUSTICE

5 : Ms. Divya Sinha & Her Truth

Divya was confused about Darshan's reaction on his encounter with the Death Lord, she thought that he would have been pushed to the edge of his sanity, but it seemed like that was never going to happen. Darshan was not only quite sane, he was strangely happy too and the cause of his happiness was weird enough to make Divya more worried.

When the call with his mother was abruptly cut off because of his sudden joyous outburst, Darshan did not even think about his mother being worried neither he thought of the consequences of meeting the Death Lord, he looked like he had finally met with the lost yet most important person of his life however that expression did not last long as Divya watched him breaking into muffled sobs. Scared out of her wits, she could only console him and wait for the boy to talk about it.

It had been half an hour since Darshan had gone to have a bath and Divya was moving all around his messy room, making it bearable to see. When Darshan finally could calm down from his stupor and they made their way to his dormitory room, it was already dusk. Darshan had spoken only few necessary words about freshening and having dinner together and did not even bother to ask Divya by what mean she could enter a boys' dormitory. Though Divya was relieved that she did not have to come up with a believable lie or how could she face Darshan's mother if she ever had to reveal anything about the truth. The truth that she was in fact his cousin sister, that they shared the same bloodline.

She still could not forget the sudden meeting with Darshan's mother which happened exactly six months ago.

FLASHBACK:

Divya was as usual having lunch in her favourite restaurant and suddenly this beautiful, ethereal looking lady approached her with a mild smile.

"Divya, how have you been?"

As for Divya, she was surprised, automatically she answered with another question "you know me?"

"Yeah I more than know you Divya. My name is Shweta Dev Sinha. Your late father, Dheeraj and my late husband, Dheeyan were siblings. So that makes us family."

Divya got overwhelmed by the fact that she actually had a family member alive and at the same time she felt disappointed; if she was really a family then why she never showed up in her struggle full growing up days in the orphan home where she got only elderly people and orphan children to call her family.

Though she felt sad, she just could not pour out her frustration on the lady. Apologising, she said "I'm really sorry. But I really can't recognise you."

"Of course you won't recognise me. I don't blame you though. You were so little when I left you in the care of your tribe peoples. And I regret my decision of that time till this day. Will you forgive me for not being a good family to you? If you don't want to then it's okay too, I understand you."

Though Divya tried to conceal her true emotions, this woman still could catch her like an opened book. Then it clicked to her embarrassed mind did she just say tribe peoples? What tribe peoples? The peoples from the home are some tribesmen? But they don't seem like any of them, right?

Wait! I am really thinking about the same 'tribe peoples' thing that she is talking about?

"Yes. You got it right Divya." Mrs Sinha's or her aunt's confirmation made her grasp on the fact that she said the last part out loud. 

Giving a soft chuckle to Divya's stupidly adorable look her aunt continued "since you're studying that subject, I guess I don't need to elaborate what does the tribesmen term mean."

Excitement took over Divya as she exclaimed "I knew it. So the myths about the shapeshifters' clans are actually true!"

Nodding her head yes, Mrs. Sinha said "it was my request to them to not let you know anything about this until you grow up enough. I again apologize for that. But I did it to only protect you and also you were growing up in the human world so we needed to make it as humanely as possible. Hope you understand."