Chapter 8

"Where are we going Joseph?" He had taken her out this evening; otherwise he would have left early in the morning.

He used to observe such and such day wandering here and there. At the same time, Anahita kept telling him about the condition of the people there. Someone was playing a whistle and walking around unaware, why? If someone was looking around helplessly, what was the reason? And if someone was in a hurry to get to the destination for a frown, what was the reason? That anger, joy, sadness, helplessness, irritability, helplessness, he knows about every feeling.

 It was just love that she didn’t tell him about. It was her intention to tell him about love in the end because the passion is so complicated that no one in the world would have understood it to this day. Anahita was also going to have a hard time or maybe Joseph himself fell in love with someone and she didn't have to explain this feeling, that's why she was late. But who would he love? Neither parents nor siblings and here she is. The rest of her life in the world she was going to live like an alien.

 In exchange for Joseph's life, her life, Joseph had told her that his people wanted that if Joseph had become like the people of the earth then someone would come from the earth that would live like Joseph. Sacrifice, however, requires a sacrifice, and Joseph did not ask for it, but said that he had chosen it. She knew about their planet and could be a threat to them now. In any case, she knew that living like a normal human being was now just a dream for her. Either she will be killed or she will be trapped on his planet forever.

Everything was going according to his thinking except one thing, the love born in his heart. If it is done, then someone will come from the earth that will live like Yusuf. Sacrifice, however, requires a sacrifice, and Joseph did not ask for it, but said that he had chosen it. She knew about their planet and could be a threat to them now. In any case, she knew that living like a normal human being was now just a dream for her. Either she will be killed or she will be trapped on his planet forever. Everything was going according to his thinking except one thing, the love born in his heart.

When he returned to the planet after a fortnight, Anahita's mind was free for a while. She missed every relation she had and her night's sleep was forbidden. She was in Joseph's captivity while on earth, but this time the captivity was not mental but physical. She did not know where she had been locked up. She did not even try to find out. Her heart did not wanted to be free. Those days and nights of awareness were torment for her. Every moment spent with Yusuf was running like a movie in her mind and she was getting distracted by his every move. She would now wonder how she remained perfectly normal with him for fifteen days. After a while she realized that she was his mental slave. She could think only according to him. Love was growing in her heart but her mind was completely distracted from her heart. That's what Joseph wanted.

Now that he was gone, she realized how badly she was trapped. Loving an alien was a crime, she would have to endure all her life and where would he let her die easily? What if he found out? This thought haunted her day and night. The realization of love was such that it was all over the place. She knew in that look that she had stopped, she wish but she did not know that even if she knew, she would not be able to do anything. That was to be.

She looked at the heavy chain at her feet.

The aliens weren't satisfied with just locking the door. It was a special prisoner's chain that weighed heavily on her. The chain would end a little behind the entrance to the house, the rest she could walk around the whole flat.

Today was his fifth day. Her legs were injured by the chain, but she still did not make a sound.

She wishes that this chain was only in the feet so that she had escaped, but she knew in that look that he would find her. And the turn to search would come only when she dared to run away from here. Love came to her with all its intensity. Her heart kept pounding from time to time. She prayed fervently for him to return. Even if her pain is less, he should never free her mind. She used to laugh so much that love kill someone... And sitting there today, she wished she knew love. Life is a disease and love is a disease. It neither breathes nor moves.

This week, all the faces that once claimed to love her came in front of her. How contemptuously she looked at them? How arrogantly she spoke? She felt sorry for them, they loved her too and she could say with certainty that it was not their fault. If they were not helpless, why would they come in front of this goddess of beauty, why would they murmur when they knew that she is more proud than any other goddess? She could feel their helplessness today but she could not apologize. She knew that this is all because of their curse.

If someone asked Anahita to give advice, she would say only one thing, do anything but don't make fun of someone's love because when it is bound in its grip, man is nowhere to be found. She put her head on her knees and closed her eyes. A scene fluttered on the screen of the mind.

While she was talking, she paused and Joseph turned towards her. Her eyes were fixed on the Panipuri.

"Joseph..." She called out excitedly.

"What happened?" He raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Do you have money?"

"Of course, I robbed the National Bank."

Alas, his satire, It was the first time Anahita had been find someone like her.

"I want to eat it." She pursed her lips. Joseph snapped a picture. He did not know why he was doing all this and he did not make excuses to entertain himself like human beings.

"So what's the need of money?" He looked at her as if she had a mental illness.

"Go and get whatever you want. What's the point of being me?" He shrugged as if he were the king of this world along with his planet.

Anahita looked around. Everything was frozen in place.

"Wow ... how did you do that?" Happiness was emanating from her limbs.

"Eat mangoes ... don't count the trees." She stared at him and walked towards the gossip monger. There is a chance that he will give a straight answer.