On the terrace of a building; in some eastern part of the city
in India, where a middle aged woman was drying her wet clothes by spreading and
hanging them on the wires. The water from the clothes was dripping down in
droplets and the eleven am Indian sun was hot as fire as usual. She always left
the terrace as soon as she hung the clothes but today, the ominous silence from
the sky and the boding birds had told her something weird which she had never
experienced in her life. Jayanthi did not know how to comprehend it and after
five minutes of brooding over, she went into her only flat which was on the
terrace between the stairs and the elevator.
Madhav had woken up with a sudden jolt as if somebody had
thrown water upon his sleeping body. His head was reeling fast and foretelling
something which somehow could happen today, he thought. Since he was a call
centre employee, habituated to sleeping on the day and working at nights like a
nocturnal bat. Reflecting on his nightmare (day mare) speculatively, he felt
why he had got such an earth shattering and life threatening nightmare. It was
not just a night mare but an apocalypse of lifeless earth.
What…!
Life on the earth becomes extinct.
A Doomsday.
Oh my god. It was very hard to imagine, almost impossible
that life
on the earth would be nonexistent.
It was mystifying and horrifying.
As he, in his puzzling and throbbing mood, stepped his feet
unconsciously onto the floor, he came back to his senses. His mother, Jayanthi
was in the kitchen, grooming something. His feet were pulling him out on to the
terrace to witness as if some force was calling him out. By stretching his
hands up and back, yawning with his mouth which became as big as his mouth
could expand, he was looking up at the sky through the back of his left hand,
avoiding the sunrays which were hitting his eyes. Something was wrong today, he
had seen the daylight scarcely but in his school and college days, he was used
to seeing the sun and its radiance. It was puzzlingly different today.
Inadvertently, the threatening sky reminded him of his nightmare of the
judgement day. A neighbor from the other building’s terrace had called Madhav
by his name and said hi where as Madhav replied reluctantly, staring deep at
the sky and horizon and now with fully open eyes.
Like a Myriad of uncountable birds, plethora of
sophisticated and advanced technological jet flights and firefighters were
visible in the sky at a long distance like the machines attacking the Pandora in
Avatar movie. Madhav felt that he had seen this earlier also, where and
when…..?
In no time, he
realized that it was in his today’s nightmare; the same armed and well-equipped
jet flights and they would terminate every visible human being. The entire sky
was filled with those human destroying flights which were in a well planned way
approaching him.
As soon as he heard their noise, he had shouted to his
neighbor on the terrace. “Save your family they are coming to kill us”. Madhav
had rushed into his house, held his mother by the hand and took her vehemently
towards the lift mentioning, “There is no time to explain. They will kill us
all” As they were in the elevator, he had pushed the ground floor button in
haste. The steel doors were closed and they were safe, only for now.
In the elevator, he was explaining his nightmare that had
come to reality to his panic-stricken mother. His mother, sweat on her face and
wet hands, listening to him silently with dreadful fear in her eyes and
palpitating heart which was beating faster than it had ever been.
Eventually, he said,” we must save as many as we can, we
should warn them”. His mother nodded silently still unconceivable and
incomprehensible about what was happening.
Then somebody was
calling my name. I woke up and realized it was a dream……
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