TIME IS THE REASON

1.The Saturday

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Conversation had broken out over travelling through the NH4 inside an omni car. August 15th 2018. The time was almost 5:00am. A gentle man who wore a brown coloured jacket and his face resembled the grim with a bushy moustache. That gentle man sat grandly opposite to an old man with a half bald head with clean shaved face and a specs that gently fitted above his nose and he had a normal leather bag over his thighs. Another person who sat next to that old man with a full bald head with a black skin tone. He shared his cruel view to that gentle man.

‘Doctor… what a pleasure to see you… And I want to tell and ask something… we have money, we have lands and we have the girls too for our pleasure. We have all of these luxuries to rule this country. But… we don’t have that one….’

‘where is that? You can’t hide anything from me Dr. Kulo’ asked that gentle man with his horrible voice.

‘what?... what are you asking about?... asked Dr. Kulo. A scared word fell from his dry lips.

‘ha-ha… this old rewarding some pain to my stomach by showing laughter.’ Said that full bald head with an annoying laugh.

‘MR. Arunachalam I don’t know anything about your quest. Please let me go, Driver please stop the car…’ Doctor pleaded to that gentle man.

That bald head holds Doctor’s hands hardly and took a smiley look towards Dr. Kulo. Doctor’s face changed and shown an enormous fear over it.

‘you can’t…’ said that bald with a smile.

‘MR. Murugan leave him… it’s not the decency… He is a Doctor… Driver keep driving.’ Said politely.

Arunachalam picked the gun out the dress from his hip. By shaking that he started from the first with an extra horrible voice and with a violent full of face. Murugan laughed loudly like a devil which searching for blood. The Doctor’s face and his fingers with his hand started shaking together. The fear of death was filmed over his face. He looked with a tearful of eyes towards them.

Murugan shouted, ‘Where is that? You idiot.’

The gun pointed towards the chest of that Oldman. The Oldman looked the gun very often. Sweat that scrolled over the face of that Oldman. The car was forced to shake for once because of driven over a stone. The gun which pointed towards the Oldman is also forced to shoot against the Oldman accidentally.

The Oldman shook his body greatly for that shot. A bag which slipped through the window of that car which is kept opened.

The Oldman died at that spot with a small smile towards the gentleman.

‘oh… shit… what the fuck are you driving….’

Murugan felt too badly.

‘Everything got spoiled…’ shouted Mr. Arunachalam with a huge disappointment.

‘We could find it MR. Murugan, we could…

A pleasant early morning that is. The extra silence did me think of, ‘really it’s quiet? or am I deaf? Since the economy is the wool, the breeze was cool. The cold that is shaking together with teeth. I started to rub my hands, then I put that heat over my face. Since the cold is unbearable, so I spread the carpet over me that I brought. But the cold and the continuous wavy breeze and shaking of my teeth didn’t stopped yet. The sounds of the pleasure attacked my ears by the peacock that flew above me. The night gets started to take off. It could be almost 5:30 am.

Because of early morning, the cars flew through the roads. Its NH4 national highways, the hushing sound of the cars made a dog which sleeping near the highway

to lift its head towards the road and to see the pity of omni car which also crossed me.

After the rushing of that car, I started walking through that highway. After a few steps, I lift my head towards the road. I could see a group of peoples who sleeping one by one at the right corner of that highway. They covered their body by the thick and patched carpets. I could see some children also sleeping together. After I have seen them, my mind started to talk to me, ‘who are they? Why are they sleeping here? Are they nomads?’

But I still walking through that highway without disturbing them. In that group I could see a boy, I think an eighteen-year-old boy. He was a wheatish coloured boy with a broad shoulder and with auburn hair. I could see a half title toy in his left hand.       And with a needle at the right hand. He stitched that doll with a face full of pleasures. His happiness seems uncountable. I could saw a joyful joy which spread over his face.

By destroying his happiness, an old man waked up and pulled his patched dhoti and dragged it tightly over his hip. The boy suddenly hid his half-stitched toy and also hid his whole body behind a fat lady and noticed that older one sharply with a narrow and almost closed eyes. But that older one was pushed himself here and there like a drunken one.

He started walking towards the roadside toilet that placed nearer to the sleeping area of that group.

He started singing, “naanoru sindhu, kaavadi sindhu, raagam puriyavilla, ulla sogam theriyavilla…”

‘My god! He shown me a horror! If I caught to him…’ the boy swallowed his saliva. It knew at the throat. He released a long breathe and closed his eyes slowly.

We know it was August then. The season seems like, the cold and the spring and the breeze were taken this city to lease. The cold is unbearable. But, to the other hand, the partner whose name is sun. His anarchy is incredible. At night this city was handled by cold, and by morning resemblance of summer was shown by Mr. sun. The act of non-humanitarian.

‘Ram… Ram… wake up… only you can sleep like this… between the hot sun and this hot platform… Mm… Wakeup…’ said a boy. Who also looks like street sleeper, he who wore a torn shirt, a big hole which appeared at his shoulder. He resembled Ram’s look. The height and the body parts told me that he was also an eighteen-year-old boy.

‘Hey… Ram… it’s too late…’ shouted the boy. Ram opened his eyes very shortly and suddenly closed his eyes tightly because of the glittering of sun. Then, he closed his eyes by his hands and then started rubbing.

‘Hey Mani… when did you come…’ said Ram tiredly.

‘it’s ok…

‘I don’t know that you asked me to say this after you woke up…’

“It’s Saturday Ram…”

‘what… what is the time now… hurry up hurry up… hurrrrrryyyy….’ he started to wonder.

Mani lifted his head by shrinking his eyes and noticed the numbers which shows 7:30 am inside the digital clock which seized above the tower.

‘It’s 7…’

‘what? Is it 7…’?

Ram wondered and stood up and took a look towards the digital clock tower.

‘Oh my god! It’s 7:30 am!...

He hurried to fold his carpet which he uses to cover his body during night.

‘Did you take a bath?’ Ram suspected Mani hardly.

Mani turned his head suddenly and stared towards Ram. Then he felt reluctant. He slowly pulled down his head towards his feet and shook his head. Ram couldn’t stop his mouth from laughing. But Ram closed his mouth tightly and noticed him.

As like as lightning, Mani lifted his head towards Ram, ‘you don’t know about my bathing secrets. If I tell to you, you definitely broke your laugh.

‘Oh…my…god…secret…?’

‘please darling tell me something about that.’

Reluctant. ‘He told me to no bath from this day’ Mani said very politely.

‘who is he? A government toilet owner…?’

‘nope…’

‘Then who?... who is that genius… I must want to see that guy… a funny guy…’

‘Don’t tease him. Then he would punish you…’ a childish speech felt from Mani’s lips.

‘ok…ok…ok… I won’t tease that… ok tell me…’

‘He is a muni…’

Ram’s stared Mani and his face turned bored.

‘From where did you get money for consulting a muni?’ Ram suspected Mani with a sharp slicing eye.

‘Mm… I think there is no payment for a dream’ suddenly the words felt from Mani’s lips. Mani stuck to him by his own holy mouth.

Ram didn’t know what to do. His anger went to the critical point. He looked here and there randomly around him. But Mani couldn’t understand what he is doing. He come forward to clear his doubt.

‘Ram…Ram… what are you searching for?’

‘A stick!’

‘I could help you… watch out below your cloth bundle… for why?’

‘Thankyou’

Ram picked up the stick and moved forward against Mani with ferocious eyes. But Mani couldn’t understand why he is doing like this. Mani started to run through the highway. Ram rushed seriously.

‘Hey… are you mad? Why are doing like this? What I had did to you?’

Mani escaped from a blow from Ram. Ram didn’t answer any of the questions from Mani, he doing his job perfectly. By the by, there is no fault from Ram’s side. Because of Mani’s naughty words made Ram crazy.

‘yes… I’m gone mad… run… run… holy shit’

‘why don’t you get anyone else…?’

They ran to the end of the highway. It seems Ram won’t leave Mani without a single blow.

‘Ram… its Saturday…did you forget that…’ Mani stopped Ram by this single word. Ram reached his excited state with a full eyeball show. Ram ran towards his cloth bundle and picked up a towel which contains a type of holes here and there from that bundle, he also took that bundle with him. He dropped the cloth bundle by outside of the bathroom and ran into the government bathroom which contains a separate room for bathing and toilet.

Ram came from the bathroom and looked Mani who sat on the floor by leaned to the toilet and seeing the hushing of cars on the road. Ram dressed up. The shirt that he wearing was given by a small boy last year as a Diwali gift.

Ram taken his cloth bundle with him by hung it over his shoulder. Ram exchanged his pleasant look with a smile to Mani.

‘Hey where are you going… and why your face reflects so much of counterfeit laughter?’ Mani thrown a quest bomb towards Ram.

But Ram bend his head towards his feet with a face full of laughs and shy.

‘what is the answer for this action…?’ asked Mani doubtfully.

Ram inserted his hand into the bundle and started searching. Then he picked the doll that he stitched for many nights. He took a look over the doll and then kept the doll slowly into that bundle with a smile.

‘What is that? Hey… don’t hide from me…’ Mani’s eyes took a hard-suspecting look against the doll he kept inside the bundle.

The radio that kept inside the bundle started radiated… it was a most important message from the government. A peculiar voice of a lady sounded sweetly.

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2. The investigation

D.P. house, Kumbakonam. It was a beach house which was located 10 km inside the forest near the divine beach. No one can easily enter the house. There were no other choices. If it was day or night, the speech about the house was speechless. If anyone need to go, they must face the four legs horrible hunters by face to face.

A scream that came outside from that house. The scream said that, the sound was from a man. The scream that made the winged flyers to fly high which sat on the house gently. A group of men tortured a young man without touching him. It was a kind of shock treatment. But it was so different from others. The wires were connected to the backbone of the man, when the voltage was given in a very normal level it would attack the nerves junction. It might push him to non-walker stage.

By the way, the gentleman entered the room.

‘did he say anything?’

‘No sir… he didn’t… didn’t open his mouth except for scream’ said one of the men.

‘screw the knife from his feet slowly’ said the gentle man with a sweat voice and also with an evil smile.

A man from the group took a knife from his back and drew it through his feet slowly. The scream of him wounded all the ears. The ‘please’ from his throat was horrible. The blood, that was unexplainable. Finally, he couldn’t bear the pain.

‘Please… stop…. I will say the truth…. Please… stop…’ the tears from the eyes too ready to say the truth. The gentle man made him sit on the chair and he sat opposite to him. The young man wiped the tears and ready to start the story with a red eye.

‘Doctor… how helpful is this device going to be?’ asked the Doctor’s assistant politely.

‘I think it is not useful for me… the usage of this is depending upon the usage. If a person who is thinking to develop the country and for the good purposes but not for his selfishness… it is useful.’

‘I keeping this device in this normal brown leather bag. Because it is not leaving a space for the suspicious step. I’m using this for five days…’

‘And there is a secret about this device. Not any one can use this because, I used a sensor which only obey me. I had set a timing for the start, tomorrow evening 4:00 to 5:00 pm. After using that or if you didn’t used that, it is useless. Yes, after that there is no use from that. Only I could set a time for the restart.’ Said the Doctor bravely.

‘great Doctor… you are the only one genius in this world.’

‘Oh shit… what a mad was I’m… ‘the gentleman placed his fingers at the forehead and felt too badly.

The young man told the story with a very lighter voice. He couldn’t speak because of the shock treatment.

‘you can’t figure it easily, you must need a clean eye to find it.’ By saying this, the gentle man took his gun from back of his hip and made a shot against the young man. It was an unexpected shot for him. The gentle man asked a man from the group to lift the face of the young man.

‘What is his name?’ asked the gentle man so carefully.

‘Prasath…’ said the man.

The gentleman picked his mobile phone and called someone.

‘The work is done… we missed it by this morning on the road NH4… we have to invest the street beggars… and then the others…’

A crying sound of a girl child was heard by the gentleman. He smiled with a shy too.

‘Ha-ha… MR. Murugan, sorry for the disturbing from your workout…’ he made an extra-large laugh and end the call and returned it to his pocket.

‘Dispose this body… holy shit…’ said the gentleman and walked out of that room.

Radio was radiated from the cloth bundle. A fine voice of lady.

‘Happy Independence Day for everyone… Flash news… The street citizens of NH4 must attend the investigation, which is going to held in the city checking office from 8:30 AM. It is also important for all citizens. It was an order from the government’ with this flow,

‘Mani… come on… we have to go to the checking office for an investigation.’

‘what invest...?’

‘I don’t know… it’s an order from the government… that all the street citizens must visit the checking office today’ said Ram with a surprising tone.

‘how can we go there?’ Mani never stops his quest bomb yet.

Ram felt bored to answer those quest bombs. Ram looked up and down of Mani. Mani stood straight and the ends of his mouth opened until the ears with a shiny smile like a tailored mouth. After looking his appearance, ‘hahaha… ok I’ll tell’ said Ram.

But Mani didn’t change his pose anymore.

‘I don’t know…’ said Ram suddenly.

The van that appeared and which stopped few steps before the street citizens. A man came from that van by wearing a cap which is loaded by the logo of that investigation group. ‘I’m from the checking office…’ he shown his badge and he asked the street citizens to get inside the van. The van is looked like a multi holed box. There are so many ventilations on that van.

The man guided them to go to the correct place. The place looks better than police station. The big windows on the walls give free ventilation. The crowd asked to form a Q and the investigation started. A man who offered the Tri-coloured flag to all who standing in the crowd. It was a small piece of paper flag with a pin to hold it.

The peoples were finished the invest by a photoshoot.

‘Did you have seen this device before? Did you have gave any information about this device to our group cops?

The two men who sat on the cushion chair holding a piece of paper with a photoshoot of a box like device and looking all peoples faces with a great expectation. I think, that one of the street citizens from other group may be given an information to this investigation group.

‘No sir, I didn’t see this before…’ said Ram silently with a shiny eye.

They took a photoshoot of Ram by a cannon DSLR camera. They asked Ram to move from this place quickly. After a meanwhile Mani too finished his invest and reached Ram.

‘ok… I have a final question for you, you should answer it without hiding anything from me…’ asked Mani.

‘sure…’

‘why did you wear this good shirt for this event. Even I couldn’t able to accept that bald heads. Did you wear this only for this event?

Ram took a smiley look.

‘Nope… I’ll say when the time decides…’

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3. The posters

The sun was gone mad. The temperature reached almost to the boiling degree. The sweat that came from the body seems unstoppable. The peoples in city kumbakonam holding an umbrella to go outside and also for outing purposes. But I barely standing on the road. The peoples used to wear cooling glasses while driving. There were no trees along the road for a shelter from the sun. It was also an Act of Non-Humanitarian.

Ram and Mani walked through the road to the main city named as Nehru colony. It was a clear morning. The time was 10:00 am. The streets were seeming empty, no traffic, no peoples were roaming through the road. But, the Tri-colored flags hung all over the streets like the clothes hung on a rope. The people of India celebrate Independence Day with full of joy and also with lots and lot of events for children. Which conducts in the streets for every August 15th. But today, a reciprocation of all August 15th. Few cars and buses with air conditioner moves here and there.

‘what happened to this place?’ Mani asked Ram in the scared voice.

Ram turned around for a 360 degree, he felt so doubtful and stay quiet for a moment. After a while, the two boys started their job that they have more respect on that than each another. There were no slaves or workers or something else in this job. Here they are the owners, they are the CEOs.

‘Hey Mani… come here and keep my cloth bundle and this fiber bag’

Ram said Mani to keep the fiber bag and walked towards a drain. The nasty smell was hardly hit the nose very badly. The drain looks blackish and filled up with the bottles of wines and plastics bottles and the small beer bottles made up of tin and some plastic bags. Ram covered his nose by a small piece of cloth that he kept at the back-pant pocket. He always uses to keep this like stuffs with him while working with these nasty smells.

‘Hey Mani… keep the bag open. I’m going to pick the bottles…’

Mani walked almost nearer to the drain and he started widening the bag for the bottles. Ram slowly entered his right hand into the drain and started picking the bottles from that.

‘Ah… Mani… It smells too bad. Hurry…. show me the bag…’

‘don’t throw like that into it. If it’s broken, the stinky water from this will start coming up with dripping.’

‘Ok… dear…’

After that, Ram made a long breathe like a non-breather breathing for the first time. He returned his small piece of cloth back to his pant pocket and he asked Mani to keep his cloth bundle for a while. He picked the bag which fulfilled with the bottles. They started walked through the streets. No peoples were visible for them. It was a horrible walk for them.

After crossed a school named Town Higher Secondary School, they entered into the railway station. Not through the gateway of that station, under the bridge rails nearer to the station. They do their job smoothly.

‘Hey… Ram… why are you picking up those bottles with this quickness? Are you going somewhere? Or are you going to meet some important persons?’ asked Mani with the eyes full of doubts.

To Mani, Ram was looked so different today. He was picking up these trashes quickly, he was doing all the stuffs alone, he was quite different for Mani today. They both looked the railway station with a narrow eye because of the sun. the crowd was less than the other days. A poster that hit the faces of them. That was a huge poster. They removed from the face and looked into that for once. A policeman rushed them, he had a great lathi in his right hand.

‘what is going on here… hm… what’s inside that bag?’ asked the policeman with power and with a stronger voice.

‘Nothing sir… only plastic bottles…’ said Ram politely.

‘Yes… sir…’ Mani shown the bag which filled with the bottles they picked up.

‘Ah… what a stinky smell. Don’t stay here… move…move…’ the policeman said that by closing the nose by his left hand.

Ram folded the poster and put it inside the bottle bag while the policeman’s quest. They moved from the railway station. By moving to outside, they could saw many posters like that on the walls around them. It was a missing poster.

Ram and Mani wondered about that posters on the wall. They went nearer to that poster and looked closely and wondered with a lot of shocks over their faces.

‘Ram… it was that…’

‘yes… it is interesting… who want this box? Is this so important for him/her?’ asked Ram with a confusion.

‘Ok done… we can stop this investigation from now by continue our daily job’ said Mani with a rightful sentence.

They started their work by roaming many streets and picking up many plastic bottles from the parks also. The sun was more heavy today. They walked through the naalroad which consists of four roads like a plus shape. Over there, they could saw the total crowd of the city. The peoples from far also visible at that place. The crowd listening someone’s speech very sharply and there is no extra sound or noise or Tri-colored flags anymore except the speaker. The road was blocked for the vehicles on that day. The road was covered by the banners from the beginning of that road. Which consists a man’s image who looks with a bald and black skin tone, he wore a white and white shirt and dhoti. A dark blue colored piece of cloth with a fire like symbol which was loaded on the end of that piece of cloth.

The banners are loaded with a quote, ‘UNGAL MURUGAN’ and the other were loaded with a text that explains, ‘Murugan welcomes you all my peoples’ by entering inside that location there was a weird silence felt with. Behind the stage, the Lamborghini and few Ambassador stood bravely. Near MR. Murugan four black cats were seated back to him with a gun.

Ram and Mani didn’t look the banners and didn’t read any text on that. They barely entered into that road with that cloth bundle and that bottle bag. Ram listened the speech of that bald.

‘The peoples… you are the gifts and blessings from the god. We have achieved only with your support and help. We are the one the city which was raised over the clouds and sky by the innovations and by the culture. All of these stuffs were only by you, my people. I’m very proud to say this in this Independence Day. It feels very brave to me and my members that you have selected a good leader for your city. My services are only for you I promise you from this time.’

‘But we have to consider the development of our country too. The nameless device, which is priceless. It was stealed by someone he who know about that device well. He didn’t stealed that in the mind of selling it. He wants defeat from our country…’

By saying this, Ram entered his words against the speaker.

‘He is not true for us… he has the top detectives and investigators; then why should he want to paste a poster on the walls… he is a fake person… it is drama… the device is not stealed…’ Ram shouted aggressively against the speaker. The crowd took a look towards Ram for a second. Two bouncers came closely to them and threw them away from that meeting. The crowd again started listening to that bald.

Ram and Mani get up and picked the bottle bag and the bottles which was scattered over the road here and there.

‘Ram… why did you react like that… did you knew him…’ Mani asked Ram with a soft voice. But Ram didn’t reply to that questions. He walked faster than Mani.

‘ok… leave it. Why are you walking with this weird fast? Are you going somewhere? What was that? That you hid from me…’ Mani started to throw the quest bombs.

Ram turned with a mixture of shy and smiley face towards Mani. He shown his teeth by smiling and the ends of the mouth stretched until the ears.

‘What is this mean for?’ Mani watched Ram by up and down.

Ram started to tell the tale that conducted yesterday with a face full of pleasure and happiness.

‘yesterday… by evening… I think the time was 4:30pm… I met her…’ Ram said that with a wonderful smile over his face.

‘who…?’

‘she… who sit in front of the kumbeshwaran temple and selling the flowers to the devotees…’

‘Oh… I could remember her… the flower girl… malar…’

‘Yes… she is…’ a kind of struggle visible over his face and his breathe.

‘First I barely stand in front of her flower owner’s shop and she gave those flowers to the devotees which were readily tied. I watched her every single movement without twinkling my eyes. She rarely saw me by the fine corner of her eye. She was a beauty by natural, I think. A real beauty that I ever seen before. After the end of her session, she was replaced by another girl. She stands at the corner of that road and looking for cross the road to the other side. I went to her, nearly close to her and I started looking opposite direction when she looks at me.

‘MR. Ram… should I need to bow to you…’ she asked me with such naughty. Yes, she was also a naughtiest girl I had ever seen. I turned to her simply with a smile an unstoppable smile it was.

‘How are you malar?’ I asked her with a small fear that eating me inside. At that situation I thought that even dragons were the softest creature when compared to the women.

‘Hey Ram please Ram… shall we go to that Kumbeshwaran temple for once…’ she asked me by hold my hand inside her hand. I couldn’t say no, for that act. Who could say no for that kind of act. It’s also an act of non-humanitarian.

I bought the flowers from her owner’s shop for her. I placed it over her hair. At that moment she turned and smiled against me. It was a heart melting performance. Even a warrior couldn’t stay last longer for that performance. I decided that I live for her, and for her that precious smile.

‘Ram what are you doing there… come faster… the temple will close within half an hour.’ She called me with a careful voice when I stand at that entrance and looked over my feet and smiled myself like a madman. Then I ran to her by giving respect to her words. We walked through the veranda by placing the similar walking steps over the floor. An Oldman with a bushy white beard who sitting at the right-side corner of the veranda by holding a black stick and his forehead was fully filled with sandal and a big rounded vermilion.

‘my child… please come and know about your future…’ he called me by shaking his black stick against me. The crowd at the veranda turned to me and watched me up to down. It made me uncomfortable.

‘Mm... Malar this type of Old men are good frauds. If any people stuck to them, they will remove all of them money and leave them as like as beggars on the road.’ By saying this I asked her, ‘malar why is you quiet?’ by walking forward. But there are no any voices coming from and I suddenly turned back and there was a shock waited for me.

She gave her right hand to that Oldman and sitting in front of him simply. What can I do? Then I too sat in front of him but I didn’t show my face to him. I turned my face to the right direction where the entrance located.

‘You should be careful my child… there is a great danger is awaiting you… today’ Malar laughed at me and turned my face by her soft white hand and looked at my face, she laughed loudly.

‘Yes Swamy… I agree that…. A biggest danger is sitting next to me’ she laughed by looking my face often. My temper raised above the critical stage. It was a shame to me at that moment because feeling shame in front a sage is nasty for me. It made me so uncomfortable. Then he asked my hand. I hid my hands by holding them back of me. She tried to release those hands and bring them to that Swamy. But she couldn’t. she took a sweat look over me. Now she was so closer to me. The eyes…. The visible two heavens…. At that moment I’m not there… I’m started flew over the skies of the seven and swim across that seven oceans of heaven. I named a nick name for her, kayalvizhi. I named her like that because of her charming eyes that killing me for every time. I liked to put forward my poem of her.’

Mind my mighty mind,

Sense my hearty kind,

Put your holy words in your lips,

Let me take it to my world.

‘Is you bastard? What the shit are you doing in front my tea shop?’ the owner of the tea shop opened his words by seeing them and the bag which contains bottles. Ram placed the bottle bag in front of his tea shop by swimming inside his love story. There was a good reason for his speech. The nasty smell from that bag disturbed the customers who drinking tea from that shop. They started took an aggressive look against them and get up from the chairs and moved to a safe corner from that nasty smell.

‘Get out of here… otherwise I will kill you both… bastards…’ he shouted at them.

Then they started walking through that road. Ram made the bag to hung on his shoulder.

‘Hey Ram… then, what happened?’ Mani asked with face full of curiosity.

‘then… that sage picked my left hand and stay wondered.

‘you are going to be a king to this country and you must be safe from you… because you may accuse for some problems. That won’t be an unknown crime, that would be a known crime from you and by you. So be careful my child….’

I was frozen by listening the Oldman’s speech. But the laughter that sound from next to me didn’t stopped.

‘King?... He… ha-ha… Ok… thankyou Swamy… here is your fees…’ she gave the sage ten rupees and she asked me to move. I stared at her with my terrific look. ‘why did you laugh at me? Am I’m looking ridiculous anymore? Then, why did you laugh at me?’ she laughed at me again by in front of face. I raised with a ferocious anger and said to her, ‘If you struggle with any problem, I do anything for you even murder as that sage’s prediction.’ I turned suddenly from her vision. Then she came in front of me with a pearl like tears in her eyes and cheek. Her eyes… an action which I pleaded to the gods to eliminate from my life was done in front of me. She’s dropping the tears from her valuable eyes. I couldn’t bear that and expect that. My heart too melted like a plastic bag which burning in the fire. I came forward to say sorry about that, ‘I LOVE YOU dear’ but she put the words before me like an overtaking. I felt like millions and millions of arrows which was loaded with full of love and penetrated through the heart. I didn’t know to how to express that feeling. A quite challenging one for me. It is also an act of non-humanitarian.

She smiled at me and a pit that located over the cheeks was a heart hacking software. At that time, I thought that I’m the one who is luckiest person in the world. We came outside from that temple and walking through a street. Laugh was lying in a little while. She hid behind me.

‘Malar… what happened to you? What are you doing?’

‘My owner of that flower shop…’ a kind of fear born in her words. She asked me to not to move.

‘where he is?’

‘There…’ she pointed a man with a muscled body looked ferocious and vulnerable standing inside a flower shop. I asked her, ‘another flower shop? How many does he has’ she said 10. Oh my god… he is the luckiest man in the world not I’m… a thought struggled inside my head. She asked me to move slowly.

We moved slowly across the flower shop without a caught. We moved far from the flower shop. She looked at me and ‘Ram… we could meet tomorrow. As a Saturday, the meeting would be good at Gandhi park. She patched a kiss over my forehead. I closed my eyes while that unforgettable moment.

‘At what time?’

‘May be 4:00… bye… my love…’ she started walking through the road towards her hut.’

‘malar…’ I called her for once. She came in front of me. ‘what’s the problem…’ she asked like a child with a childish voice. But I set my eyes to point her eyes and I extended my arms and opened my right hand in front of her.

‘For me…’ she wondered. A sweet smile that scrolled over her lips and cheeks. She wore the locket and opened it. Inside the locket, the images of mine and her was twinkled. A gift for her.

‘Thank you my dear… she patched another kiss over my cheek. A promotion.

‘Aha… finally we reached…’ said Mani. A machine which doing the job by rotating for 360 degree. So many trashes like they bought was rotating into it. A board that was loaded with text which sounds ‘Sathish’s machines.’

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4. the box

The rotating machine was a red colored hollow metal tank. From the right opposite of that machine there kept a huge square shaped solar panel. I thought that the connection of that rotating machine and the power supply of this building is only by this panel. A small board which hanged on a nail which looked outside from the wall. A quote was loaded as ‘save electricity.’ I wondered. The two of them standing simply by hanging the bottle bag and face full of waiting for the arrival of the man from inside of that building.

Mani moved nearer to that machine and moved his arm nearer to that machine. An alarm started to shout. But Mani didn’t touch that anymore. He stepped back with a fear.

A man with a muscular body and an abnormal height also looked blackish. His hand holds a medical kit and with an eye which asked what happened? He came in front of them.

‘We…’ Ram made the man to remember.

‘what happened to your house… a quite changes that visible in front of my vision… and what is this….? The machine…?’ Ram asked the man with a wondering voice.

‘Oh… I started to respect the electricity and water… that’s why I made my own solar panel. And, this machine is a recycling machine which recycles plastics and polyethene bags also. I’m using those recycling products for my inventions also.’ He answered manly. What a polite man he is?

‘Ok then, what is this for?’ Mani asked Sathish with a doubtful eye. His doubts were unstoppable forever.

‘Oh… it is for first aid… It’s not for you…’

‘for whom?’ Ram too joined the club of Mani.

‘for birds… yesterday a crow was dead by this machine because, if you touch it, a high-power pass through your body make you to ready for the death. There was a mistake in this machine I need to clear it. I must… that’s why I set an alarm with a sensor. That save the birds by scaring them by the sound.’

The faces of them filled with wonder and I too have a doubt that, ‘is he a human… he is a genius’ I answered the doubt myself.

‘I went outside this early morning to pick some plastic bottles and for some metal parts’ he guided them the direction of the bag which he used to pick bottles and metal parts. The bag was filled mostly with the waste metals.

Ram landed the bag full of bottles safely. Sathish went inside the house for money to pay them. Mani stared abnormally against the bag which was filled almost by metals.

Sathish came outside by holding his purse tightly. He opened his purse and took two pieces of hundred-rupee notes.

‘here your payment… ‘he extended his arm which holding those hundred-rupee notes. Ram received the cash and perfectly insert the notes into his shirt pocket safely.

‘Didn’t you attend the meeting of Murugan? Which is going on now at naalroad.’

‘I didn’t hear it… and also I don’t like to attend the meeting of Murugan. He is a funny guy. The truth is Murugan can’t speak the truth there. That’s why…’

‘Ok… MR… good bye…’ the two of them started their journey from there. Mani hold the bag which is empty and Ram who hold his cloth bundle over his back. They walked across the streets. Every street was loaded by the poster about that box over the walls. At that mean time, the radio radiated. Again, the voice of a lady.

‘Government got that box! A man who named as Saravanan delivered the box to the government. He was announced as a guest for the meeting. MR. Murugan announced about the meeting by today at 2: 00 pm.’

‘What the hell is that box is…’ said Mani.

‘The honor of the government to the man, only for a box. It’s too strange and foolish…’ said Ram who felt pity about the government. They crossed the bridge named as one feet bridge. The radio which is in the cloth bundle started radiating.  The peculiar and sweat voice of a lady radiated from the radio, ‘Time is afternoon 1:50 pm. Let take an interview from our leader of the nation MR. Murugan. Sir… how do you feeling, you got this wonderful, mighty and powerful device. I think it is. How can you help your peoples with this, and what is the purpose of this device and how it works? Yeah, girl… as your words, this device is a mighty device. It is going to be a very much useful and important part in our life that I give you a guarantee to you. The only thing is peoples want to trust me. If they invest their trust with me, I’m ready to say there will be a very good future that awaits our country. The main thing is, the device’s work. It could be….’

Mani turned off the radio by taking it from the cloth bundle.

‘hey… it is an important message about the device but you spoiled it’ Ram raised against Mani and simply stared for a while.

‘Ram, I did this because… I thought that you don’t like this person anymore… so…’

Ram turned his head from him and started walking faster. Mani tried to keep the distance closer between them. After a while, they entered into the park which was located at Beeman street, a large park filled with huge number of gorgeous and colorful flowers. The name ‘Gandhi park’ was loaded over a wooden board that hung between the two pillars of the entrance. The two boys were placed their seats over the wooden bench which expressed the immobile state at the left corner of the park.

Mani laid over the full wooden bench because of the tired. He acted like the prisoner who stand for years. After watching his act, Ram gave a blow by a stick which rest near to him. Mani stood up with a painful buttock and he ran all over the area of a part of that park. Ram gently seated his seat over the bench and laughed loudly like a one eyed giant. Then, Mani too seated his seat over bench but with a staring eyes against Ram.

‘Is it pains?’ Ram asked with a chuckle but Mani didn’t change his transformation from the staring transform against Ram. Mani said shut up by the gesture by his hand. A silence maintained between them for a while. It was a long silence which rented between them.

‘I think the watchman was dead…’ said Mani with an enjoyable slang.

‘why are you thinking like that…’ Ram too excited to know about the watchman, was he really rested in peace.

‘I couldn’t see him anywhere throughout this park… that’s why…’

‘If your prediction is correct, we could freely roam around this park forever…’ said ram, his face expressed the highly excited state of happiness. Their faces glowed like a thousand-watt bulb for their prediction. The giggling sound of them seems like disturbing others who seated opposite and next to them. By the way of giggling, Mani asked a question that acted vulnerable to Ram.

‘Ram… how you came to sleep over the roads? What happened to you? And your family?’

‘Don’t ask that…’ Ram stood up from the bench and moved for few steps. Mani moved to him and asked about the happened matter softly by hold his hand. Mani pulled Ram towards him by asking the incident. He could see the tears that float over his cheeks and chin. The eye turned to red.

‘Sorry to ask you about that… forgive me…’ said Mani politely.

‘Never mind… the tears need to go outside from me as an evil that leaving from my heart. I will say it for you... it was an unbearable incident to me…’ Ram started to tell about his melancholic flashback.

‘August 15th Independence Day. All of the schools in this city loaded the Tri colored flag. Town higher secondary school, one of the great schools in this city. I studied eighth standard in that school. My school too loaded the Tri colored flag on that day. The wheel which consists twenty-four spokes located at the center of the flag named Dharma chakra waved bravely together with the flag. It was a majestic look twinkled from the flag. All the students in the school were pinned with a small paper tri colored flag over the shirt pocket of them that also includes me.

After the festival I tasted the candies which was provided from the school. I walked towards my house with full of happiness and joy. I prepared me to tell the story about the speeches of the officials from the foreign countries and the dances of the girls and the valuable debate to my mum. I kept some candies for her and a small paper tri colored flag and pin for her. I entered into the house with a scream, ‘Ammmaaa’ the hall was empty. The sound of grinder grinded my ears. I put forward my steps slowly towards the kitchen. The kitchen was left alone but the grinder, it worked hardly for mum. Finally, I approached the terrace of my small house. It was also a failure attempt. I walked towards the bathroom which located inside the bedroom that I used very often. I opened the door of the bedroom, my heart and my mind and my soul was broken. It felt like a thunder that fell on my head. My lovable mum and my dad, he was a friend and a respectful person, I haven’t seen anyone else like my dad was hanging in the fan. I felt that I was lost the two precious stones from my life. I started shouted across the streets. I lose the candies and the tri colored flag from my hand. No one came forward to ask a word about the incident that happened in my house.

A group of men who came from the van rushed into my house and few men who belong to that group threw my lovable mum and dad’s bodies to the road and some of the men who broke up the house and took a piece of paper from the cupboard which was a farm field bond. A gentle muscled tall man with a bushy mustache and a bald black skinned person stood in front of me. They demanded me to sign on a bond. As a thirteen-year-old boy, I did it. A man who started to read the bond, ‘because of the credit for the farm field Rs.3000, which was received by R. Saravanan on May 1 2000. The time given to repay the amount with the interests was ended. because of unpaid amount and the interests, as a word of MR. Saravanan, the house is belonging to MR. Arunachalam. Because of the suicide of MR. Saravanan and by considering the life of the boy, the interest amount was cancelled but the farm field was taken by MR. Arunachalam. If the boy needed the field, he is supposed to pay the credit amount without the interest.’

I know about my dad, he won’t kneel to somebody for some credits. As a thirteen-year-old boy, I couldn’t say anything. My relatives didn’t come forward to take me. Because of the credit that my dad didn’t received from the two persons. I could remember an incident that done last Sunday at the fourth street. I heard about that incident. That house was broken up by these same group of men. The boy who from that house lost his father and mother as like as me. After few days, the boy disappeared. At that moment I couldn’t think anything. That was an out of syllabus to my age. But now I could realize that the two persons Murugan and arunachalam planned and made the incident happen and looted so many peoples farm fields and broke the dreams of the children from the houses they looted. They have lands that looted from the peoples, they have money the holy shit also looted from the peoples and they didn’t stopped looting so many innocent girls and their lives from them. They have all these stuffs but their greed didn’t leave them. Now they received that stupid shit box. The god has no mercy.’

By the way of Ram’s melancholic words, the radio started to radiated. Again, the lady’s peculiar voice sounded though the radio.

‘flash news, the time is 2:15pm at the meeting hall the members of the conference include the higher officials Mr. Murugan and Mr. Arunachalam had died mysteriously and the person who delivered the box was gone with the box. The nation was in tragedy. A CCTV footage was obtained from that meeting hall. The person named Saravanan, killed all the members by a clap and he cut off the heads of the officials. It was a brutal attack.’

The incident must be a planned by the killer. The police men started the investigation against Saravanan who delivered the box to the government.’

Ram and Mani danced to the sky and the earth. They danced with a random step. Their faces and teeth glittered than the diamond. Ram raised his hands with a clutched finger shouted his victorious words, ‘God has mercy…God has mercy…’ he shed the happy tears from his eyes and hugged Mani with a joy.

At that moment, few peoples who wore white shirt and white dhoti started breaking the shops that located outside the park. And few peoples screamed, ‘the pillar of our nation had fallen… Murugan… Murugan… praise the leader….’ The men who breaking the shops and others snubbed the shop keepers to close the shops. The peoples ran randomly here and there afraid of those men who having knives and wooden rod. Some men entered into the park and started broke up the benches and flower pots which rest on the ground. The half of the garden was destroyed. A single man who hold a wooden rod ran towards Ram and Mani with huge ferociousness. Ram watched the man who coming towards them.

‘Mani…. Hey… let’s move from here… come on…. Hurry hurry…’ he shouted. The crowd screamed and ran away from there. They easily overtaken Ram and Mani with fast legs. Ram and Mani started their legs to set the fire. One of the persons from the crowd, just knocked from the back side while running with a fear. Mani landed on the ground with a critical velocity. The empty bag which he holds had flew from him. In that pressure Ram turned and searched around for him. An object which scattered from the bag. Mani picked that object and keep that object barely in his hand and ran towards Ram. Mani reached Ram by his backside while Ram searching for Mani. Mani patted his hand over his shoulder and Ram turned towards him.

‘where did you….?’

‘I slipped over the ground…’ he said with a long breathe.

‘what is that in your hand…?’

Mani started his legs on fire by dragging Ram by his hand. Ram and Mani reached the exit. At that time, the object was knocked by the runners like them. Ram noticed the green colored glowing over the object. Ram demanded to watch out his hand which hold the object. When Mani and Ram started concentrating on the object, they slipped down to the ground by a small stone decorator which was located at the exit of the park.

They can’t keep balance there. The falling of them to the ground was unstoppable. After reaching the ground the object which was hold by Mani was scattered over the ground with a green colored glow. Ram stood up by tapping his knee where the sand and dust which sediment over it. Mani can’t stand by his own because of the wound which happened over his right knee and leg. He blooded slightly. Ram helped Mani to stood up. By holding Mani’s hand over his shoulder, Ram took the object which was still glowed the green light brightly.

‘The box…!’ asked Ram with full of wonder.

‘yes… of course… the box…’

Ram hold the box which was printed on the posters which was posted over the walls of the city. It was an unexpected surprise to Ram. He wondered a lot.

‘ho… how did you get it…? And where did you get it from…? Where…?’ Ram couldn’t keep quiet at that moment. He burst with a quest for the first time.

‘I… I… actually I took it from Mr. Sathish’s house, from his bag which contains metals. This box was found at the top of that bag. I took it by a resemblance of that we see before on a poster over a wall and in a railway station. That’s why I took it from him.’

By the way of saying, the light from the box was dimmed and attained its normal stage as a non-glowing state. The number which appeared over the box. It was a two-digit number.

’58…’ said Ram with full excitement.

With so many collapses they lifted their head towards the world. There awaited a surprise to them. They wondered about their city with a large opened mouth.

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5. the voice

Ram and Mani tried not to shout at that moment. waterbodies were running in front of them. A statue of a man was located into that river with a brave pose. The text Sadip was loaded at the bottom of that statue which is made up of stone. The work of the workers who worked with the statue was clearly defined with the finishing of that statue. Ram made a few back steps with a confusable fear. Again, he landed the ground by back side by stepping over a small stone wrongly. Ram supposed Mani to help him. Mani turned around the direction where Ram landed. But Mani didn’t take leave from that wondering reaction. He opened his mouth as much he could.

‘What’s there…? Help me…please…’

But Mani didn’t consider Ran anymore. His vision clearly seeing the wonder in front of him. At that moment, Mani was turned as like as a statue which was stood up over the waterbodies. Ram slowly turned his body behind his head. After seeing on that direction, he suddenly stood up and simply stood and enlarged his eye ball and stare against it.

‘oh my god…’ said Ram with swallowing the saliva which travelled into the throat.

‘is this our city…?’ the thousand-watt bulb which glowed over their faces were dimmed perfectly. There was another waterbody ran in front of them and they took a look around them. They rotated their bodies for 180 degree from their position. The half was water and the half were the land.

Ram and Mani decided to walk through the path like narrow land which extends to the place where only the trees were appeared. They walked towards it with a kind of panic. They entered through the trees, there awaited another wonder for them.

It was a city inside the trees. The trees were seeming like the walls around the castle. A high-tech city it was. For approximately 10 kilometers there was a bridge which levitate above the great groove like a magnetic repulsion. And at the last of the bridge appeared a castle like architect but which had a closed structure above the castle architect like the semi-circle mounted over the square. Under the bridge, the great groove was also filled with the water. Small lands were floated over the water here and there. Those small lands were loaded with the paddy crops. Which was a pleasure to see them again. Many little flying saucers were flying above the heads. It must be the size of half the size of Maruti Suzuki 800. A person could travel with in that. The sky was filled with those flying saucers like a group of birds covered the sky from the sun. It was a fascinating show ever seen before. The bridge consists of less numbers of peoples on it. The text, ‘kumbakonam welcomes you’ running on a glass like material which levitates in the air. Ram and Mani watched out the mechanism about the levitation of that glass like material. They started walk through the bridge. The market was placed next to the bridge which was also levitates in the air. A projection that appeared suddenly over the bridge which resembled a big screen tv. The projection of light projected about the history of the city. The architecture of the city was fascinating the visitor’s eyes. The sculptures explained about the city’s culture and habits well.

The projection explained the works done on the sculpture named ‘yaazhi’. It was well known for its ferociousness and for its multi-animal body. After a while of walking through the bridge, at the left side of the bridge floated a flight in the air and next to that flight appeared a transparent board loaded with running text, ‘free flights’ a group of passengers entered the flight with luggage. Ram and Mani joined the tour with those passengers. The flight started to take off without the hushing sound. The flights were free from the engines which located in the wings.

In a short while, the flight crossed the 10 kilometers and reached the semicircle like architect. Before the flight entered the castle, the semicircle opened its one part of twelve. The flight entered and reached a flight parking which is placed inside the castle. The flight injected its first half into the hole which was found on the wall typed parking. Where, so many flights were parked into the holes which were located on the wall parking and some flights started its takeoffs by reverse from that hole of the wall parking. Ram and Mani with the passengers left the flight through the exit and also used the escalators to left the wall parking. The wall was also made up of a type of very hard material which expressed its appearance by a grey blackish look.

After left the wall parking, they finally entered the city kumbakonam. A gorgeous and high-tech city with full of flying saucers and flights and also a productivity and cultivating place of paddy and other food crops. The walls of the castle were made up of the same type of hard material. Simply here and there a saucer like big objects which placed over the land. The saucers were placed weird over the land and expressed an alien life into it. By the way, a person who came from that saucer like an alien which walked out from the space shuttle. After cleared the vision, the person who came from the saucer was a human. The saucer which place weird over the land was houses for them. Definitely, it was a weird built. The city was filled with full of green and the farm fields were fulfilled with the paddies which smiling over it. The peoples of the city were less in population, Ram and Mani didn’t take leave from the wondering transformation.

The most of the shops which placed over the land were having the same name ‘kayalvizhi’ Ram watched out the running letters over a transparent board of a medical shop which was also loaded with the name ‘kayalvizhi’ and released a long breathe to the atmosphere with a high pressure.

‘Ram…. What…? Why are you standing like that….?’

‘Nothing… we can move…’ Ram said with a melancholic tone with an unbearable sad voice.

After a while, a man who stood up on a mega flying saucer and a drone mic which floated in front of him while he was speaking. ‘the people of city kumbakonam, it was an announcement from the great south king of two nations. Because of the death anniversary of the king’s wife ‘kayalvizhi’, the king wanted to ask his peoples to attend the feast and make the feast soulful. The peoples who want to attend the feast can give their identity to the bots.’

Suddenly a huge group that formed a Q and gave their identity to the bots and entered into the saucer. Finally, Ram and Mani too decided to give their identity to the bots to attend the king’s feast. The bots asked Ram and Mani to inject their body into the rectangular box like machine to analyses them.

After a while, the box gets alarmed with a huge sound and, Ram and Mani were ejected from the box. Everyone in the Q and the saucer took a grim look towards them. The officers also wondered against Ram and Mani. ‘How it’s possible. In this city an identity of a person is a unique one…. How it’s possible….!’ Said an officer with a whispered tone to another one who stood next to him.

An officer turned on the switch of a ball like object. It projected a light with an empty space to be written. He started typing over it and swipe it towards the atmosphere. It must be the messaging machine, the message which must consists of this incident.

Immediately, a message which came from the atmosphere to the machine. The ball like machine beeped once. The officer who hold the machine and switched another switch. The ball turned into a small object which fits an ear hole. He injected the machine into his ear and he started listening the message. It was a secret message from the guardians of the castle. After listening of the message, the officer removed the machine from the ear and ordered.

‘Arrest them… ‘said the officer. The face of them turned bitter and they started shouting across the city.

‘Why… we done nothing against this city….’ Ram screamed ferociously.

‘why is this for… wh… why are you arresting us…’ Mani cried for the arrest with a bitter scream that came from his mouth.

The officer made collision of his palm like a clap for twice. Suddenly an invisible and uncolored material which locked the hands with the legs together. Then, a hollow cylinder like colorless material which swallowed them into it. The two cylinder which consists Ram and Mani started to levitate against the gravity pull. The screams of them didn’t sounded outside anymore.

By floating, the hallow cylinder entered inside the saucer and the saucer jetted from the place. Another message which came from the atmosphere beeped within the machine. Again, the officer injected it into his ear and ordered the guards to control the people. He announced the guards, ‘the king wanted to honor his wife’s grave with flowers. The grave was kept outside the wall, we must prepare a best protection for him.’ said the officer with a pride to protect the king.

The sound of musical instruments attacked everyone’s ears strongly. The officers suddenly stopped the identification operation and ordered the guards and the bots to protect and they flew with the help of their saucers by a click of a button which located in their watches.

The huge saucer that flew above the heads outside the wall. Before the huge saucer entering outside the three of the parts of the semicircle opened. Before the king’s landing the officers were stood tightly in attention. After a while, the door of the saucer opened bravely. A tall man having a French beard and had a muscled body structure and he wore simple clothes over his body. His appearance didn’t tell about a king’s tale. The officers who stood tightly, stretched their right arm and made a salute to him. The king holds a flower bouquet within his hand and unlocked the feet wears outside the place where the grave was placed. The man politely placed the bouquet over the grave and sat next to it and shed his tears. The emotional action made shed the tears of the officers also.

It was an underground tour for them. The cylinders were flying through a huge hole of about half the kilometers which built inside the land, which was a dark and light less hole. After reaching a distance into the hole from the outside of the hole, a voice that heard from the hole, ‘as your order master’ the hole glowed with the photons of the light. It gave me a thought that it was a beautiful Prison ever seen in this world. But the hole didn’t stop yet. After the travelling through the hole, the hollow cylinder suddenly stopped and ejected them outside. They stepped on a glass like material which is transparent. It reflected the dark from outside.

‘Oh…shit… what this place… is this a prison…?’ asked Ram with highly confused attitude. A ghostly panic took a rent over his face which appeared brighter than the light.

‘Are we going to die here…?’ Mani cried loudly his throat get teared because of continuous screaming.

After a while, a voice that came from the corner of the hole. Ram and Mani randomly turned around for 360 degree with a killing fear. But the voice didn’t stop, it continued the speech.

∞∞∞

6. creatured projections

After the shedding of the holy tears, Sadip stood up with no heart and wiped the tears from the cheeks and then with a folded arm he stood simply by closing his eyes like meditation. At that time a right hand of a man slowly landed over the right shoulder of Sadip. Sadip turned with red eyed glimpse and suddenly hugged him with a cry like a child. The man who stood in front of Sadip used to calm down Sadip with his right hand that patted the back of Sadip.

They moved the grave and prepared for the departure to the castle. Before they entered into the saucer, an officer rushed towards them with a flying and glowing cube.

‘sir…’ the officer kneeled in front of them with a downward head and he started to speak.

‘sir… the things were obtained from those boys. These things were accidentally left by those boys. This is not our mistake. We didn’t hurt them as your words. They were directed to the prison as your word my king…’

Sadip and the man entered with that cube. After a while the saucer started to take off without the hushing sound. The officers also flew with their flights by following the saucer.

Sadip and the strange man entered into the castle, which was a temple once. The lights were glowed everywhere. The sculptures and the paintings started to speak their bravery and their pride by their look and dare and the ferociousness of the brave and also by their beauty but not by their voices. The strange man didn’t take a look with more fascination and excitement. He simply walked before the King like a hundred times visitor.

Sadip asked the strange man to wait at the dining room and he rushed up by the stairs. He unlocked a room and entered into it with a hurry. He couldn’t wait for that he rushed the box and opened it by clicking the sensor which placed over the box. He picked a doll from that box, a fully sewed doll. By seeing that again the tears that started to run over his cheeks and chins like a Falls. He sat in the chair with no reaction and didn’t distract the overflowing red eye from the doll. He started to remember the past of him that the days of sewing the doll by the overnights and the girl who he was loved most than the world and the awaiting of his love for a meet at the park and he also started to remember the tragedy of his life. He shouted loud and also started to scream loudly. ‘he saw a newspaper with a heading, ‘a dead body of a girl was founded on the day of Independence.’ He started to read the full news with a hurry and with full rush.  ‘yesterday a dead body of a girl of age seventeen (malar 17) was founded near the river bank Kaveri. After the result of autopsy, the girl was raped for a day and murdered by braking the head. The investigation was filed by inspector Jaisankar. Soon the inspector will catch the suspects.’ After reading the news he entranced at his place. After a while, water that splashed over his face strongly. He slowly opened his eyes and took a look towards Mani’s face. He didn’t shout across the streets and he didn’t scream for that, but the water that came continuously from the eyes. He stared towards the newspaper particularly towards the news. He leaned over the wall and continuously shed his tears to the ground. The face of him turned and expressed the anger and also his eyes were turned red.

By seeing the newspaper, ‘who… who… who dared to do this to her?’

‘she is a child…’ he started to cry loudly by slammed his forehead and cheeks by himself. He also screamed for the first time.

‘whose work is this… I don’t care whoever he is… I’m going to kill him…’ Mani insert his hand inside his pocket and he picked an object and he took a glance over that and suddenly turned to Ram.

Mani too leaned over the wall next to him and slowly landed his left arm over his shoulder. He made Ram to lean over him, ‘Calm Ram… calm… please… don’t waste your tears… for one day you will kill him or them…. Don’t cry for now…’ Mani gave his taking speech to Ram and made him calm.

After a week, they walked towards the government office by holding them cloth bundle together. As usually Ram hung his cloth bundle over his shoulder. They entered the office and picked a small cloth bag and put in front of an officer who sat comfortably in front of them. Ram loosen the knot of the cloth bundle and shown to the officer. money that twinkled the eyes of the officer.

‘How much… what is this for… bribe? For what…?’ The officer put forward his quest rain in front of them. By destroying those quests, Ram took a bond which was about the farm field’s credits. He stretched his arm and put that bond paper on the table. The officer wrote something over an empty sheet after reading the bond paper.

‘you could use your farm field by now… it’s yours man… congratulations…’ he said with a face full of pleasure. I think the man who sat in front of them was a good person.

They came outside of the office and, ‘now we don’t want to do this job anymore…. We could survive by doing agriculture in our field…’ said ram with a pleasure and hugged Mani.

After a while they rested over their land. Mani stood up with an urgent. ‘Hey Ram… it’s a nature call… I’m going…’ At the place of Mani, Ram could see a locket of heart shape which once decorate the neck of Malar.

‘What is this mean….’ He talked with the unbearable angry. His nerve was appeared through his fore head.

‘I…I…I’m so sorry about this… we couldn’t do anything against them… please Ram try to forget her… we couldn’t… particularly, you couldn’t kill them…’

Ram grabbed Mani’s shirt by his hand tightly and pulled closer to him. ‘how did you get this and where did you get this from…? It’s her locket…’ Ram shook Mani by holding Mani’s shirt. And also, he started to cry like a child.

‘I get it when I went to picking some plastic bottles form the area TSR. outside of our leader’s house, inside the bucket which contains wastes I got it when I picking some bottles from that. And I opened it, I had gotten shocked by seeing inside the locket. It consists of the photos of you and her. That’s why I kept it with me. I decided to give you, when the time permits.’

‘I did suspect them… the two persons… the leaders… the ministers… the shits…’ Ram wiped the tears and, ‘I need to save my tears…. I will… I will kill those shits by my hand… it’s going to happen… when the time permits…. And Mani… from now… don’t call me as Ram… call me as Sadip… it’s my name… I don’t want to remember this incident anymore… she lives inside me.’

By remembering the memories of the past. He wiped his eyes and picked a box from that. By the way, a beep sound that sounded from a screen which loaded over the wall.

‘Who are you…? What do you want from us...? we didn’t do anything against the city and the government.’ Shouted Ram vigorously inside the prison.

‘I know…’ said that voice very politely.

‘I’m also a prisoner like you… and we couldn’t do anything to escape from this city… because the wall and all protective objects are made up of Graphene. The most powerful…. Than metal….’ The voice advised them with a polite tone. Ram sat over the glass material and returned to his normal state and started his question to the voice that coming from the corner.

‘what happened to this city? why does the city was surrounded by the water? How it done?

’20 years ago, scientists warned India and some other countries about the asteroids going to hit the lands and those going to destroyed completely. After the announcement, twelve years crossed. One day, the unlimited joy and peace came to end. The little big stones started hammering the lands of India and all over the world. The scientist’s words had failed to work on the other unspecified countries. The stones which was almost the weight of about 50 kilograms reached the lands with a very ferocious speed. At that moment, the people in the unspecified countries were died. In India a scientist named Sathish designed the temple as a castle with the help of a man named Sadip. A day before the stone fell, Sathish mounted the temple by a semi circled material which was made up of graphene. The material which was two hundred times stronger than metal. With that he designed it by very smooth and slippery surface finish to slip the stones from damaging it like the water which slips over a lotus leaf without sticking. Sadip gave the rice and the other food crops for all the surviving persons. Some of them lost their families who settled at the foreign countries. And some of them lost their lives by the hitting of the stones. After the hitting of the asteroids the land and all of them started levitate against the gravitational pull at some particular places. The design inside the castle was remade to oppose the levitation and then the inner side of the castle stayed stable when compared to the outside. Because of having the lands of farm field Sadip turned into the king and the scientist Mr. Sathish became as an advisor for him and as a protector for the south. The water which is surrounding this city was came from that asteroids which came from the outer space. One day the scientists together with Mr. Sathish, made a research on the asteroids. After the results, the asteroids having water bodies were came to light. Then the scientists together with Mr. Sathish made this city like an island the statue of Sadip which is located over the waterbodies was also built with those asteroids.’

After a while of saying the history, another voice that made them to wonder.

‘Ram and Mani right…?’ asked the voice. The faces of them fulfilled and started overflowed by the wondering reaction.’

‘who are you…? Asked Ram.

‘Not only me…. We…. You killed us in this day for once.’ Two creatures like structure that came from the corner of the hole. But it was just a projection of a light not a real one. A head of human and the body of a walking drone walked towards them. The familiar heads it was. The heads of Mr. Arunachalam and Mr. Murugan were attached to a drone body.’

Mani started to jumping with a scream up and down by seeing that projection. It was a vigorous look that rest over them.

‘Don’t… don’t do that….’ Mr. Murugan asked Mani to not to jump again.

‘If you jump continuously… the material which you standing will burst and definitely you two will be the food for the space.

‘What… space…?’ asked Ram with a confusion.

‘yes… space… you could watch it out through the glass.’ Ram and Mani took a look by opening their eyes for too big size. The twinkling of stars at the far distance and the dark and the beauty of the space increased the ghostly fear to them. They started to shouting across the hole.

‘wait… how did you know about Mani is jumping…?’ Ram asked an exact question to that projection. But it was also an idiot quest from him. Because it was a projection. Just a projection.

‘Hey Ram… what a pity… it is just a projection of light. it can’t answer for your question.’ Answered Mani strongly like an examiner in the exam hall.

‘I could answer for your all the questions… if your question is about how we are working, I could answer.

‘hey Ram I think that… these projections are well programed….’

‘I think so… wait… don’t speak anything for a while…’

‘we are the real one with this head and this drone body…’ the projection of Arunachalam continued the speech but Ram and Mani moved their steps slowly to the backside of the projection. While stepping the back of the projection, the appearance of those creatures disappeared but the sounds didn’t. The sounds of that voices clearly visible to their ears.

‘hey the projections…?’ whispered Mani with wonder. He turned towards Ram with that same wondering reaction. Ram nodded his head with a thrill. At that moment, Mani made a glimpse behind Ram. He saw a light that penetrate through a side of the wall which projected over Ram’s back.

‘Ram, I found it…’ Mani asked Ram to move aside from the projection light by an action of gesture. The light of the projection appeared at the second.

‘yes…it is a well programed projection…’ said Ram with an extended eyebrow and enlarged eye ball. The sounds of the voice echoed across the prison.

‘Before one hour of your visit, we are the real one with this head and this drone body. At the second of your appearance, we are turned as were! Yes… this is a time game… when you are here, we must be there and after your assault we must be here…’

‘Assault…? Me...? you...? Ram struggled with his voice from talking. But the projection didn’t stop its speech any more.

‘If you ask that how you know all these...? we are the souls of computer. We are programed well by our mistakes and sins and the histories of the world. This is our punishment rather than death. we had ordered as prisoners who wanted to experience this cruel for our life long. This is last longer. You can think that it is a poor idea for a computer but we have feelings and everything that you need. This is a very horrible punishment for us.’

Ram and Mani looked each other and shared the panic with each other through their eyes. ‘Ram are you want to… assault any one…?’

By the way, again two hollow cylinders swallowed them at a second. But the speech of those projections was unstoppable. They continued their speech like a continuous shot of the gun. What a pity computer it was. The hollow cylinder again flew through another hole which located horizontally over the wall of the prison.

∞∞∞

 

7. the new king

After the beeping of the screen, Sadip understood that the prisoners were entered into the castle. By proving that, two shadows appeared on the floor which resembled the prisoners which was screened on the screen that loaded over the wall. Sadip grabbed the box tightly and took a look toward the box.

‘wear this…’ commanded the officer hardly with his frightening voice. He gave a suit like outfit which seemed like a suit of ironman but it was not made up of metal. A rubber like suit it was. Ram and Mani wore the outfit and expressed their look that seems like the warriors of the alien. The outfit completely closed the faces of them except their eyes. The officer got to his feet toward the castle. By following the officer, the legs and the hands and the body of them moved automatically without their permissions.

‘Hey… man what is this… I couldn’t control my body at all… hey… stop…’ Ram shouted against the officer. But the disadvantage was, the sounds could not travel outside through their outfit. They must be kept calm rather than shouting.

‘stand over this.’ The officer speech was more less. He commanded them to stand over a hoverboard which floated in front of them. Which resembled the tiny skate board. They stood up on the hover board which started to move on. They flew through the path to the castle which was completely surrounded by the peoples of the city. the peoples who stood next to the path, used to throw the stones towards the prisoners. But the stones that flew toward them were stopped by one feet distance before hitting them. Ram and Mani were safely moved into the castle.

Into the castle, the outfits which stick over them were suddenly dismantled to the floor. Ram and Mani were made to flew backward and they floated with no movement of body parts. On the floor straight to them, a groove like open which glowed with a blue light. Above that groove they floated like a dead body with no reaction and movement. But Ram stared a digital clock tower which located into the great castle. Which stood above the stairs bravely which shown a familiar number ‘58’ together with two numbers, ‘2058’.  4:50pm, 15-08-2058. Because of the seize to their body, Ram couldn’t express his feeling against the number that he was still staring.

The door knocked heavily by outside. By the third force knock, the door opened slowly. The door was unlocked already. The strange man entered into the room by calling the name, ‘Sadip… are you here...?’ the room was seeming empty to him and free from the sounds and the noise. He locked the door by inside and turned toward the room. A great photo of a girl which hung over the wall. The strange man took a look to that photo and nodded his head slowly. He looked all around the room. On the table which placed in front of the photo, carried the box and a doll which place on the table barely. The strange man picked the doll and remembered the moment, ‘Hey ram… what is the thing that you hid from me… Ram: This… I made it… for her. I think that she will love this…’

He released a long breathe and he nodded his head slowly and placed the doll on the table. While placing, he saw a letter like paper which was loaded with the signature of Sadip. He picked up the letter and started to read.

Like the sun, rises for every day like a new one, there will also a change in ruling of the nation. It’s time to leave this. I’m going to her. Sorry for the imprisonment. If I didn’t send you to the prison, you and your friend were might came to know me. And soon, you would be understood where you are. And at the city, an unwanted issue may arise for the identity problems of you and me and Mani. And I couldn’t get this box to attain her. That’s why I imprisoned you. There are lakhs of micro cameras all over the city. I know your all the movements. Then, I’m ready to departure. I know about this box and the working of this box. Mr. Sathish used to tell some story about this box and Dr. kulo the inventor of this time travelling machine. And Mr. Sathish used to tell me often that a person will surely visit our city with a time travelling machine. As Mr. Sathish’s words you came here. An unexpected incident. But, Mr. Sathish lost his life. He was an unluckiest person. I think I couldn’t come here back, the box started to glow the red. Finally, the peoples of Kumbakonam got a New King. The Real King.

-Ram

The man crushed the letter by seeing the face of the girl appeared on the photo. He smiled sadly and repaired the crushed paper neatly. With a sad smile he started to tear the paper into several pieces and, ‘sorry malar… I won’t let another Ram to know what done to you and where your Ram gone and I don’t leave a space to you too. Apologize.’ He released the photo from the wall and together with that paper, he destroyed those with a LASER emitting machine by placing those into it.

The message had come to the officer from the atmosphere. The officer picked the machine from his hip. ‘yes sir…’ the officer said with a respect.

Ram and Mani landed on the ground with a velocity. It was a crash landing. Ram stood up with a rush and started to shout across the castle. ‘Mani… it was a time travelling machine. The number 58 was not just a number. It was a year… look at the clock.’ Ram said that with a cry. ‘what are you…’ Mani raised his throat.

The man rushed from the stairs to them. ‘My king…’ he kneeled in front of Ram with a bowed head towards downwards. ‘your majestic… It’s time… please raise your grace. It’s time… Mr. Sadip asked you to be the King till his arrival. He was liked to visit his wife for once with your time travelling machine. Here is the letter of him with his signature for you two. As his words you’re the king now.’

But Ram didn’t stop shouting. He continued that creepy sound against the man. The man expanded his glimpse towards them and closed his eyes. A sound like whistling that came behind the man but no one there behind him. Suddenly they pulled backwards and made to sit into the chair like machine which expressed the non-fulfilled mechanism. The wires were visible to eyes barely. The heavy light from that chair enclosed them for a while. After a while, they simply sit inside with the closed eyes. They had lost their mind. A man with chuckles who came from the back of the strange man. They nodded their head strongly with a smile. Ram and Mani opened their eyes like a slept one. The two men kneeled in front of them who sitting inside the machine with no mind.

‘your grace… I’m Mani…’

‘By now… you are the new king…’ the strange man introduced himself to them.

‘I’m Subu… your grace… son of Mr. Sathish.’

Ram and Mani confused from that moment.  Ram excited and shouted, ‘Are we the Kings? Ha-ha…’

Ram and Mani were asked to change their clothes in Sadip’s room to visit the peoples of kumbakonam who waits for the New King. After a while Ram and Mani attend the visiting to the peoples. They shook their hands to the peoples.

Sadip who time travelled arrived to the year 2018. He announced that he got the box. He delivered that to the government. The officials announced the meeting with Sadip. At the moment, Mr. Arunachalam and Mr. Murugan shared their joy and happiness with the guest. After the feast party which had given to Sadip. The two officials were used to speak with, ‘Great job man… what a wonder you are… sorry for that, please repeat your name.’ asked Mr. Arunachalam politely. ‘Saravanan…’ Sadip answered. ‘A familiar name. I heard it before.’ Said Mr. Arunachalam. ‘why not… because he was my dad… who was killed by you.’ Sadip stood up and made a clap to his thighs. A huge sound that came from the meeting room and the glasses of the windows get scattered.

After visiting the peoples, he turned from the peoples and picked the doll from his pant pocket and said, ‘TIME IS THE REASON. I’M AWAITS YOU.’

These words of him supposed me to remember the line that, ‘the game of time doesn’t go to be stop and also they had failed to erase the mind of Ram.’