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Chapter- 18(2)
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The moon represents love, coldness, and compassion. Watching everything from afar, it holds all the mysteries of the world. Being the oldest guards of the world, it protects humans from the dead and profane creatures that are hiding under the dark with its silvery light.
But that day there's no moon and moonlight. It's completely dark in that eerie midnight. The place was weirdly silent and cold, perhaps the air and the trees know what type of merciless act going to happen there. Tides moved slowly in fear and no other creature is awake to witness it.
"Rathi!" someone whispered in her ears and Rathi jolted up from her sleep feeling the creepiness in the voice and coolness in the ambiance. She opened her eyes to see herself in the room beside her grandparents' house. She got confused about how she came here and her heart started throbbing in fear.
Immediately Rathi stood up to leave but she stopped and turned to see herself sleeping on the floor. There she realiz
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Rathi looked at her baby bump, protruding out from her lean frame. The cold water beneath her thighs doesn't give shivers anymore but Aadhiyan did, the truth that she found out in the morning trembled the life out of her. Her hands slowly caressed over her stomach; she tried not to remind her about how dangerous her husband is; or will he harm this child if she is not here with him or in this world and Rathi felt like this child is going to decide whether she can be alive or not. She slugged down her saliva along with her fear and angst and exhaled slowly standing in the middle of the lake.The sun is shining mildly from the top and the streaming beam of sunshine fell on her half-naked frame. She closed her eyes feeling the mix of warmth and ice.All of a sudden, that familiar warmth and aura bounded her from behind. She became edgy and gasped in fear when Aadhiyan moved her long raven hair to her front side and gave a wet kiss on her nape. Then he encircled his hands
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Rathi always believed in God. For her, it doesn't have a proper shape or it belongs to a precise religion or it will only understand a certain language. She once read in a book called The Alchemist that says always believe in one true God. In her confused spirituality whether God exist or not she found it interesting to follow it and believes that God is somewhere hearing all the prayers in this world, he might help some or many people but right now he didn't save Rathi and she couldn't think about that or anything else, as her brain took over by the pain on her skin and everywhere.She closed her eyes and curled hugging her knees on the floor while he whipped her with a rope all over her body except her stomach. Tears drenched her face; gritting her teeth she yelped in pain which dares to pass that room. She begged him so much but he's not Aadhiyan to consider her begging he's someone who wants her to die so what she can do.He stopped when he got that satisf
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Sitting on the rock chair in front of her father in law's house, Rathi watched the rain that's gently started pouring, arising the Petrichor which is her favorite fragrance to smell. Aadhavan has planted a lot of floral plants before his house which was bloomed at that evening time, flowers are her favorite sight to see and the sound of rain is her favorite sound to hear but, she couldn't relish anything. In fact, she hates everything around her, she hates to stay in this place and she hates these people.It's been a day since she came back from her near-death experience. She despises the fact that she's here alive and that got the gloomiest expression on her face. The stains of turmeric-ginger paste she applied on her cheeks for the swelling is still there; her eyes were tired after all the crying and her body is too light to feel any pain. Her wounds started healing but she doesn't know how she's going to heal her heart.Imagine the girl who went to escape the hell w
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As the Rain continued in the night the place becomes too cold, her father in law gave sheets and shawls for her to cover and ignited the fire in the inglenook at the center of the wall. After having her dinner, Rathi felt somewhat better but she couldn't fall asleep and sat looking at the Rain through the window beside her."If you kept thinking about what happened, you can never fall sleep?" her father in law commented from the other side of the room sitting on his mattress. He gave his bed for Rathi and he's lying on the floor. She didn't answer him and stared out as it's the truth she's still pondering about that King."You are hating us, aren't you?" he asked that calmly after a moment."You want to hear my answer, then yes, of course, I hate everything here," Rathi said looking at him. The only source of light in that place is the fire from the hearth, equally spreading the bright light across the room."I don't know what really happened but you shou
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After taking a hot bath Rathi came out wearing her saree, her eyes had a calm stare, and her face somewhat better compared to yesterday. The inflammation on her face is healed but still has that scar.She went behind the house to dry her hair but she stopped when she saw her father-in-law standing under the banyan tree placing his palm on its rough wood. Rathi watched his face which is deep in the thoughts of something, maybe their conversation yesterday might have reminded him about his wife and Rathi thought that tree must be her late mother-in-law. She doesn't want to disturb him so she walked to the front.The sun is shining clearing up the clouds, the birds were chirping and the butterflies were fluttering around the flowers pleasantly. Rathi observed the ambiance with a smile on her face. She took off the towel on her hair and stood under the sunlight. The combination of moisture and warmth felt blissful to feel.Like disturbing her peace Iniyan yelled, "A
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Rathi watched the crabs of all sizes making their way towards its hideouts and some towards the ocean at this unusual afternoon time and the dark cirrus clouds were marching towards the island which she has never seen before.The signs of the hurricane were hard and heavy just like the first time she came to this place. The wind gradually starts to blow in high current which made Rathi anxious and she couldn't see anything properly. She went inside the house, and placed Migali who's soundly on her bed, and came to see all these changes that were occurring all of a sudden.The high waves almost came to the fence, Rathi knew that nothing will happen to her since she believes whether the God here is good or evil it will protect her and the people who were worshipping it for all these years. But she wondered what will happen to the men who went out to the ocean. Aadhiyan will save them but still in front of the ferocious nature no one stand and fight it. She hates him yet
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A day has passed since her father in law returned home after that fruitless search for Aadhiyan. Rathi is tired of her life and increasingly started to fear what's going to happen after this but she didn't lose that small hope that maybe Aadhiyan will miraculously come back.The heavy rain has stopped but it still drizzles. Sitting beside the door and looking at the endless rain deeply saddens her. She can hardly able to breathe in this atmosphere. It's suffocating her like she wants to end her life in order to end everything.She looked at the necklace and reminded her about what the ghost has said to her, 'Your husband is dead.'How can he die when he was protected by the Gods? She thought but then she felt it doesn't seem like the ghost is lying. Even sometimes God can fail too, they have left Aadhiyan when he was in danger so that he didn't make it to the
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40(1)Life got a little more peaceful after Aarani stopped coming to the palace. Especially for Kayanangai. She felt so free and started to notice the changes that had happened in her life. She believes Aathiyan has ordered her to not come to the palace as he always hated her around here, but she doesn't know the truth that Aathiyan lied to her. Nakan was always there around them and Aathiyan didn't give any orders because he couldn't find him at all.Ever since Kayanangai saw Aarani smiling at her father's funeral she felt something strange and she decided not to keep her beside her after getting this doubt. She can't help but think whether Aarani is that witch. She has no answers and no one is going to tell her the truth unless she finds it on her own.Aathiyan spends more time with her and she's finally com
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