End of chapter II, here we depart

 That's all , good bye sister!

What is real? When I can feel things with my sense; I can see, feel the touch of it and even smell the thing. I don’t know the exact definition of reality, hence sometimes I suspect my reality because my mind has habit to play with me. It makes things so real for me that I get obliged to accept them though they don’t exist. But I really suspected twhether those things really don’t exist or my mind is showing me something.

I was desolated old palace. But curpets were new though there was abysmal silence. Only the sound ihear was of flow of water. I was in a hall with many door, all were same. I was puzzeled,

--- Where am I?

Suddenly, something passed by which chilled me to my bones. I was trying turn but I was freezed and I was terrified.

Then a boy appeared near the door in front of me. But he wasn’t looking at me as if I didn’t exist for him. He passed through the door and was gone. Something inside me told me that I should follow him. I gathered all my will to move my muscle and break through. I ran behind him. I keep running and running as if there is no end of that corridor. There wasn’t much light. Just few torches which was fixed on columns were burning with red flame.

Then suddenly I saw a shadow. I hid behind a column. I heard a voice of a boy or a kid. The voice was becoming louder and louder and then it turned into shouting,

--- Go away! If you want to escape, just break out and go away!

That voice had pain it, a deep pain. Then voice came down and he started panting.

I came out of darkens, closer and more closer to the boy.

But he wasn’t looking at me. He wasn’t looking at anything! He was lost in himself, panting. Then again that freexing familiar coldness wrapped me. All things became more vivid. There wasn’t much light yet I could see through that darkness.

I was standing there waiting for something! Something was around, not that boy, something very familiar, something very close to me.

I all on a sudden that boy rose and shouted with all his might,

--- Go away!

Then all things before me changed and it was a cell with iron bars. I saw a paw with furious sharp nails trying to come out and two bright eyes in that darkness of cell. Every feeling was so vivid , so real. Even that eyes were so familiar,

--- It can’t be!

I stepped back and a beast broke out of cell. It was that familiar black cat but it was bigger. It was looking at me and I could feel the warmth of his breath.

Then in few second a shrill shout was heard that echoed in that closed suffocating corridor and that cat pounced on me.

But it didn’t attacked me, it merged into me as if it wanted to come me. It wanted break out of his prison to merge with me. Before I discern how I got there i bunch of arrow was coming at me. I was frozen. Few of those penetrated my limbs but I couldn't feel any pain. Before I could figure out anything all things faded away in a blink of eye and I found myself on floor.

I rubbed my cheek and looked around.

At my right, on a bed Asha was sleeping, my dear sister.

Then I realized I was dreaming. It was my last night there. The next they would admit me in a orphan home.

I looked around, that room had been my room for many weeks and I had a sister there. I started as orphan and then I got Shahnu , then Asha. But ... I just smiled and said to myself,

--- Good night! Just one more day and after that my days would change again!