Immortal Talks (- Book 1) by Shunya

Author:Shunya [Shunya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Seer Books
Published: 2017-05-08T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The Strings of Time

Having imparted the essential knowledge to Urmi, Lord Hanuman narrowed down a sequence from her past life that was the root cause of her disease. He narrated it in such a way that she thought she was watching it like a dream sequence while the Ashwin twins heard His words echoing in their mind.

In her previous life, Urmi was a farmer’s wife in a tiny village. Her name was Chandra. Once, a group of monkeys that appeared to have lost its way from the jungle ended up in her village. Nasty children and jobless adults of the village discovered a pastime in the misfortune of the monkeys: The notorious bunch of villagers threw stones at them, chased them from one roof to another, beat them in every corner they attempted to find momentary shelter, sadistically tortured them more and more with their every screech of pain. The monkeys couldn’t find a way out of the village because their pursuers chased them round and round. For three days and nights they couldn’t get anything significant to eat because at night it was difficult to find food and in the daytime they were forced to run here and there.

On the fourth day, hungry and bruised and exhausted, they sheltered themselves on the roof of Chandra’s house. The overheated roof surface and the dazzling sun overhead were no less torturous than the murderous mob they were hiding from. They stayed there perhaps because the constant fury of the summer sun felt fair to them in comparison to the indiscriminate attack from their human pursuers. This house, being separated from rest of the village from all sides, felt reasonably safe. They had barely caught their breath when they sensed someone’s presence.

The farmer’s nine-year-old son had climbed up the ladder to see the monkeys. He stood on the uppermost step of the wooden ladder with only his head sticking out to see the creatures sitting on the roof. When the troubled monkeys noticed his presence, one of them screeched. The boy got scared and lost his grip on the ladder. He fell down and was knocked unconscious; his head hit the ground directly.

Chandra screamed for help. Her husband, who was working in the fields, came running and ran back to bring a doctor. By the time the charlatan doctor arrived and started his therapy, the news had turned into a rumour and reached ears of the small but unruly bunch of villagers that had been pursuing the monkeys. They now had a motive, a holy motive: To save the village from ‘the carnivorous creatures that had almost eaten a child alive.’

With the mask of saviours on their pitiful faces and sticks in their murderous hands, they set out to hunt down the monkeys.

While the owners of the house were busy caring for their injured son, the crowd threw stones on the roof. The scared monkeys had to get down and run for their lives. After a couple of minutes of foolish attempts at escape, they returned to the safest place they knew, the roof of Chandra’s house.

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