KalRatra (काळरात्र) A Night With Horrors

The secrets revealed

Vishwaprit and Setupati were discussing about the situation all night. A lot of unanswered questions made them anxious. And the most annoying thing was, they didn't even have enough information about their enemy. Vishwaprit had already checked all the books, writings from that time, from every library, but still couldn't find anything useful.

Setupati looked at Vishwaprit helplessly. And he realised something.

"Vishwa, do you remember, my father used to keep his books hidden from everybody, and used to read them at night when everybody was asleep."

".…..."

"He used to say, 'those are not only books. That is our family's past. Our legacy.' Do you think those can be related to 'it'?" Setu's curiosity level reached the to the peak.

"Setu, if those books were that important, he would have handed them over to you, wouldn't he?"

"He wasn't himself in his last days. He had lost his senses, he was acting like a madman. So he didn't get the chance to do it. It happened when you were persuing your engineering. That's why You weren't around when it happened."
Setu explained.

"So, there is a possibility that those could be related to the incidents happened back then. The reality?" Vishwaprit asked.

"What do you mean reality?" Setu asked surprisingly.

"Setu, before coming to you, I studied all the documents related to it I could find, and after reading them, it seems like a fairly tale or a fantasy. It was all about how our forefathers defeated the powerful enemy, who had the power to control the world. But still, our forefathers won. Nobody explained how." Vishwaprit expressed his frustration.

"Well then, we have to find my father's books first."

"Do you have any idea where can they be?" Vishwaprit asked.

"I have a hunch. Come with me." Setupati stood up and wore his shoes to get out of the house.

"Where are we going?" Vishwaprit asked.

"My father's farmhouse."

"Your father had a farmhouse?" Vishwaprit asked surprisingly.

"Why? Are only royal families allowed to have such luxury?" Setupati teased Vishwaprit about being royal, which Vishwaprit hated his all life.

"No. It's just, I never knew. I thought I know everything about your family. Maybe more than mine." Vishwaprit's voice got a bit emotional.

"That's normal. You lost your family too early. You never got to talk to them. Everything you know about your family, is from others mouth. On the other hand, you have spent all your childhood with my family. It's natural to feel that way. But my father kept many secrets. I only got to know them after his death. This farmhouse is one of them. It's more like a safehouse. I have gut feeling that the books we are looking for, we will find them there." Setupati tried to make Vishwaprit comfortable.

Vishwaprit looked at him with watery eyes and walked towards the Car. Bhishu and his brother followed him along. Bhishu never trusted Setupati. He always found him useless because of his 'never so serious' attitude. But now looking at him, working with his lord so seriously and with passion, his impression about Setupati was being changed, little by little.

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Raghav arrived on his job at the police department a bit late that morning. Nobody paid attention though. He was billionaire's son, so they had direct orders to not to disturb him.

Raghav had spent almost a week at his job there, and he found all of them surprisingly normal people. Nothing dramatic like movies. Everybody talked to him nicely, not only because he was an heir of rich group, but some people who had no idea who he was, also behaved nicely.
But among all those normal people, two of them were noticeably clever. One of them was his mentor, Ganesh and another one was Suhas from forensics. If no one was able to notice the facts around the crime scene, these two were always the lifesavers. He got to experience it twice last week. He felt good to work with such a good team. He had great respect towards all of his colleagues but a little more for these two.