Better Together

CHAPTER - 34

Next morning,

Everyone arrives at Inaaya's house by 10.

Inaaya House

Inaaya:-"Shall we sit by patio weather is pleasant and breezy."

Ruhi:-"Yes."

Everyone settles down.

Arnav:-"So, Prithvi what clue did you get from that chit."

Prithvi:-"I will explain wait, Inaaya can you get me a pen and paper."

Inaaya:-"Yeah, give me a second"

Inaaya gets a paper and she gives it to Prithvi.

Prithvi:- (places the paper on table in front) "So, what  did the message written?"

Adhya:- (looking at pic taken in her phone) "Sierra Juliet bravo are nested in protective shadows of Yankee."

Prithvi:-"This code is often used by spies to send us information."

Pihu:-"So you cracked it.. "

Prithvi:-"Yeah.... let me explain. So there are 26 alphabets, so A is 1 B, is 2 like that Z is 26. So, now each alphabet in turn denoted by a word, like alpha is for A, bravo is for B....
On basis of that first word Sierra is for alphabet S number 19, Juliet is alphabet J number 10 bravo is for B and number 2.
So the code as far is 19 10 02
Which again in spy communocation format means date and time. So, on 19/10/2020 some deal is going to take place.And at 2'O clock, am or pm not sure yet."

Ruhi:-"Then what about place?"

Prithvi:-"It is also mentioned, *Are nested in protective shadows is yankee* is the location."

Armav:-(confused) "So, all those words together form pin code of that place?"

Prithvi:-"Yes to an extent, history says that Britishers used to often say that vishakhapatnam port should be nested in protective shadows, so hence the name. It used be the largest port for foreign exchange so, it was often protected from shadows of Indians back those days."

Adhya:-"But how do you know this? I never remember studying some like this."

Prithvi:-"When we prepare for civil services exams we learn everything small detail, so I know like that."

Inaaya:-"I don't think vishakhapatnam has only one port, it has many."

Pihu:-"But aren't ports supposed to be under government control?"

Arnav:-"But there are some private ports as well, so it's not necessary that every port is under control of government."

Ruhi:-"What does yankee mean in that code."

Prithvi:-"Yankee is denoted for alphabet Y and number 25."

Adhya:-"And what does 25 stand for?"

Prithvi:-"25 is last two digits in a pin code for one of the ports of vishakhapatnam."

Arnav:-"Is that a private port or government one?"

Prithvi:-"It's a private port."

Ruhi:-"Thank God, it's private, if it would have been government port than things would have got really complicated."

Adhya:-"Yeah, as such we are in a mess trying to untangle ourselves, we can't afford to get tangled anymore."

Pihu:-"So, what do we do now?"

Prithvi:-"Get details about their plan."

Inaaya:-"But don't we have all details?"

Arnav:-"No we don't, we are still not sure about time, if it's am or pm. Also we don't know if it's an export or import."