KalRatra (काळरात्र) A Night With Horrors

The Army of the blessed ones!

Vishwaprit and Setupati were sitting in the room after the ritual, discussing about the blessed ones, who were sitting on the floor silently, looking at Vishwaprit with immense faith into his eyes.

The one from them, who had approached to Vishwaprit before reached them again and said,

"Lord, we want to fight for you. We want you to accept us as your faithful soldiers. It looks like you don't want us to be with you."

Vishwaprit looked at him wordlessly, and looked at Setupati. He then gathered his thoughts and replied,

"No. It's not like that. And I don't want you to fight for me right now either. I want you to go back to your families. You've a responsibility towards them. Keep your vows towards them and make yourself ready to fight when it's needed. I don't want you all to die only because you were not ready."

"I'm ready to fight my lord. I have worked as a bodyguard for last five years. I can fight whenever you need." He pleaded.

"Then you can train all of them. Train them properly, so that they will not die because of lack of fighting skills against the enemy." Vishwaprit said.

"As your wish my lord." The blessed one said.

"I will ask them return to their families and will train them for the upcoming fights. We'll fight hard when the time comes & will conquer the enemy, we assure you my lord." His words were with determination.

Vishwaprit looked at him with satisfaction and nodded saying yes. The blessed one moved back towards the group. They all had already heard what they discussed and knew what they need to do.

Vishwaprit looked Setupati, Setupati nodded with agreement towards the situation and He then walked out of the rooms.

Shastriji, then walked towards Vishwaprit to discuss about the blessed ones.

Meanwhile, Raghav and Ganesh walked towards Vishwaprit and bowed him to say goodbye and left. Shastriji looked at Raghav and felt something unusual about him, but he hadn't figured out what! He dropped his thoughts and resumed his discussion with Vishwaprit.

Raghav didn't miss to say goodbye to Meera with his eyes and left.

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Few hours later, Shastriji was walking towards his residence after finishing all the after rituals tasks and tedious discussion with Vishwaprit.

He saw Setupati sitting silently, leaning against the wall. He looked messed up to Shastriji's elder eyes. He got worried towards the mind lord and walked towards him to ask him the reason of his uneasiness.

Setupati realised Shastriji's presence before Shastriji reached him. He opened his eyes and looked at Shastriji with emotionless eyes.

Shastriji asked,

"What's making you worry so much, son? Your face looks pale which suggests that you're suffering too much. Your glow is diminished and your aura is getting weaker. What's it?"

Setupati's emotionless eyes filled with respect towards Shastriji. He looked disappointed towards himself. He straightened his back and asked Shastriji to sit beside him with his hand.

Shastriji walked towards him saying,
"I maybe old but I can guess you're suffering."

"It's not like that, Shastriji. It's just...., there is a lot of information, popping into my head, every second. I makes me feel sick. I'm not able to handle so much input at the same time.

I can hear the screams of every second human being on the Earth. It's like I'm living thousand lives at the same time. It's impossible to concentrate on the present when other's past and future makes me confused. Do you think, you can help me into this?"