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Chapter 14 The Beckoning

  • Dodamarg, Maharashtra: Present Day
  • Something seemed to move in the dark. The thread of her thoughts snapped. Startled, she looked around her and then out of the window. Only the trees swayed in the distance. The moon light flooded the road outside. She felt a strange beckoning. As she started walking downhill, suddenly she saw something shining in the bushes. The ground sloped from here till it met the forest going down fifty thousand feet below. Coming nearer she found it to be a wrist watch. Her heart leapt recognizing her uncle's radium watch! It had an Om symbol painted inside the dial which glowed in the dark. The police hadn't made much effort in searching the place, otherwise such an evidence wouldn't have escaped their notice. But why had Uncle taken the route towards the forest? Did he find any evidence of the book being hidden inside the forest? There was another question which had been bothering her since she met the Acharya. If he had instructed uncle to find the book for him, why did he want her to destroy it this time?
  • Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks hearing a growl. It was coming from inside the forest. Engrossed in thoughts, she hadn't noticed when she had walked into the forest. As she turned back, the route which led her inside seemed to have vanished. She had heard about the death circle and it sent a shiver down her spines being aware of the fate which awaited the people who got lost in a forest. 'Don't panic' she told herself. The way to finding the escape route lay in keeping calm and scrutinizing the trees carefully. It was a regular practice for hikers to preserve the exit route by marking the tree trunks with a knife. But she didn't have any such tool with her now. She kept moving towards them. But the more she tried to find an opening, the trees seemed to engulf her . It was as if the forest was closing upon her from all sides. The sounds of unknown animals, birds and insects were growing in intensity, but the most agonizingly overbearing was the monotony of silence in between. But what was that growl?
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