A dream that never dies

Don't you dare try to locate us...you will lose yourself in the way. We are not mere animals, you humans can scare off with just a gun, we are much more than that. We are Agyats."

                   -Agyat, the clan of unknown

An isolated hallway on the Second floor, black and white gorgette curtains all over the windows and all the lights off, not  leaving any  source for illumination. Only a bit of lit could be seen from a distance and the source of light was a desk lamp placed on a study table inside a room and the owner was kinda ignorant to leave the door open. In that dim light, one can hardly see the face of the girl who was sitting at that table with a slight slouch. However under such semi darkness,  the luster of  Wheatish glow over her face was way too dazzling.  And  her hazelnut eyes and  spectacles over them were  adding points  to her charisma.

  Her head  down,  giving  undiverging attention to the book she was reading. A thick book with a grey melanoid cover.

Sometimes such dedication to a single thing can results in being unaware of the alarming movements happening around us and hence, can lead to life-threatening situations. Same was with reader. She was so devoted to  her reading session, that she was also not able to smell that one fishy person who was peeking at her from the door she missed to lock.

A sneer smile on that person's face.

With the tip toed, the peeking person started sneakingly stepping towards the reader and when the anonymous person reached to the back of the reader,  and patted the reader on her both shoulders,

"AHHHH"

The girl shouted in fear and shock.

A peal of laugher echoed in the empty room.

"Why you gotta read such horror stuff at midnight, and without anyone on your side, when you are such a scaredy cat." The pranker was a warm skin tone girl, with a golden glow all over her face and autumn-amber eyes.

"What the fuck! Anika" The reader stood up. The mischeif- maker was looking so tiny in front of her, who was 6 ft taller. With one hand over her chest and using the other one, she threw a smack on  the trickster's shoulder, "If you want to kill me, just use the knife. Why bother with such skits."

"Hmmmmmm...." A sudden flow of stiffness got on Anika's face and  she rolled her eyeballs left to right and then, right to left , staring at the ceiling. Seems like she must be thinking about something serious.

All of a sudden , she rolled back and started taking steps towards the exit.

Speechless and dumbfounded, the prankee, finally opened her mouth again. "What....what the hell are you upto now, again? "

Anika stopped,  turning  around and said with an innocent face, "To the kitchen. "

"Huh?" The prankee stared at Anika with her round and big eyes, "why?"

"So that I can unalive you." Anika replied, again with an innocent face, "You told me to do so. Have I ever disobeyed you since we were little."

"Ahhhhh " The annoyed person scowled in frustration, "would you shut your mouth or do you want me to?" 

"Alright! Alright! , my dear sister,  I will stop now." Anika sneered. Messing with her elder sister, is her most cherished ritual of entertainment.

Nayan and Anika only had a difference of 8 years. Their parents worked as social scientists so they were always busy with their researches. As an elder sister, Nayan had been taking care of Anika since they were very young, so she was more like her parent than a mere sister.

"By the way ,what are you reading at this late?Lemme see." She tried to take a peek.

Nayan grabbed the book,  put her hands below her back, trying to hide it. "Just a few moments ago.. you were mocking  me. Now you want me to show you. I won't. "  She nodded her head.

"Come on. Please." Anika said in a  pleading tone, "please please please please please please please please plea-

"Ahhh! Come here....you donkey."  As usual, the elder one gave in.

She switched on the light, taking  a seat on couch, making a gesture to tell her sister to follow her to sit.

While showing her the book ,she said,

"Healer or killer", the book's name."

" Do you know, humans are only able to discover 10 % of this earth. 90% is still unknown"

"Yep...I know."

"So this book is written by a famous team of researchers " Enigma Hunt" who dedicated their whole lives  in understanding  that unknown area. During their journey, they have encountered many such creatures and stories regarding them. Their researches are published in many books however, this book is quite exceptional. "

"Huh?" Anika glared with  shocked, though  'keen-to-know' eyes, "how?"

"Because this book is not an exact  copy of their originally written research book."

"Not Exact? What does it mean?  Why is it published then?"

"Because, the leader was able to send only first half soft copy of their research book to the publishing house , and  before they could send the whole of it, the whole team was murdered in their own houses during the same night and exactly at the same time, 10: 30 pm.  and  even postmortem couldn't find the reason of their death. When the people found them, their bodies were in horrifying, bizarre and grotesque form.  Shrinked , wrinkled and all the bones crushed, eyeballs gotten out of their places, mouth opened however not a single drop of blood could be seen anywhere. Even the postmortem couldn't find the reason of their death. This case  is one of those mysterious cases of India which haven't gotten any  answers  yet."

"Oh my God!" Ayana was disbelieved to hear all this. Chills made its way from her feet to her spine.

"And more to that, when the book got published, the director of the publication house said in an interview," Ahem Ahem she cleared her throat, " His exact words were something like this,"

The team "Enigma Hunt" has given their entire lives to shed lights on the unknown part of the earth.  Their contributions will be far remembered by all of us. However the creatures mentioned in the  book "Agyats-the unknown" were  very displeased with the world getting to know them. So they killed entire team. Although, this was  life threatening for the publishing team too, yet we played with fire so that the team "Enigma Hunt" sacrifice would not go in vain.

Creak

The door got slammed open.

"Girls. Why aren't you sleeping yet? Anika, why are you disturbing your sister. Just go back to  your room. Your sister have  an exam tomorrow. She must be tired from studying. Let her rest." Their mom ordered.

"Yeah...yeah...I know..what kinda study she has been doing. " Anika murmured to herself.

"Okay...let's keep the  story for the other day. " The elder sister wispered in the younger one ear.

"What are you murmuring about, Nayan?"

"Nothing..Nothing. I was just saying good night." Nayan sneered.

"What do you guys take me for? I am your mother. I know you better than you know yourself. You must be reading your horror novels instead of your books." The mother stated, giving a  look of disbelief."

"What are you waiting for? Just go back to your room. Do you want me to call your Dad,  Ayana?" Her voice raised to Ayana again.

"Okay...okay..I am leaving. " Ayana surrendered.  Walking towards the exit, suddenly, she turned back, opened her mouth and showed her tongue out to her sister.

"Mom! Watch! What is this brat doing?" Nayan complained.

"What? What did I do? Anaya responded back, in her defense, "Mom, I am going outside the room as you said."

"Anaya! Nayan! Just stop messing with each other and go to bed, you both!" This time, the mother yelled, threatening both her mischievous daughter.

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I don't know what exactly I am chasing after. There is a huge field of vibrant flowers in front of me. Glittering, polychromatic and full of life. Anyone would wish to drown in that varicoloured sea of shrubs, yet here I am, not even thinking about touching them. My heart is  craving  for something else. I don't know what it it. But it's not here. It's somewhere else. I need to walk in another direction to search for it. Here, i see, a black and white alley, with no other colours. It's there. I know. I can feel it.  The alley is almost 5 to 6 metrs long.

Here, I got the end. But where is he? Why can't i find him?  There is nothing ahead, just a tree. Lets walk there. Ah! finally find it. The one, I want to see is here. I can see his back. I wanna see your face. Please turn around.  Ah ha! He looked back to me. His face, it's so mesmerizing. I have never seen such an  adonis in my life. In this grey alley, his moonless black eyes are sparkling like starbeads. A mole under his eyes is complementing his overall skintone. He is smiling to me. I am unable to find exact words to describe how i am feeling. Oh my goodness! He is stepping towards me. What should I do? My heart rate is accelerating. Can't keep calm. Standing in front of me , he raise his hand in the air, about to embrace me.

BUZZ...BUZZZ

Sadly, the moment stopped there, awakening the sleeping Ayana from her dream. She opened her eyes, rubbed them, and straightened up from the bed and made her way to the balcony. Staring at the morning sun, her face is stiff, almost showing no emotional phase. Sighing, she looked at the sky and deeply wondered about the recurring dream she had been, since she can remember.

"Again that dream."

I have been seeing the same  dream from ages It never changes.  The entire scene seems the scene of a movie that is recurring again and again and again.

Noticing the walking people from the above, she wondered, and wispered to herself,

"Who are you? Why am I so desperate for you? Why do I always ditch such a beautiful field of florals for the grey world you are residing in.

Will I ever be able to see you for real..Do you even exist. "

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