Chapter 2:
Adrian
was alive, and blood was still oozing out of his skull like musical fountain. Sara
and Lima were holding him in their arms and crying as if he was dead. Adrian
lifted his right hand and pointed towards the entrance of the theatre. He’d
seen something, rather someone; but who was it?
Adrian’s
body was in the theatre, but his soul was time travelling in the future. He’d
seen havoc in his family. Though immortality wasn’t an affordable luxury to
him, the visions he had were a flamboyant curse. In the future, Adrian had an
Oedipus moment with his own paternal aunt and that experience dragged Adrian
out of his body and soul and got him to this theatre. Here, he confronted his
own dark shadow of the future which beat him up and young Adrian was lying on
the floor bathing in his own blood. All that Sara and Lima could hear from
Adrian’s voice were two things – “Black
Eagle, and Dark Horse”
Adrian
had seen himself tattooed with a “Black Eagle” on the back of his neck, and a
dark horse on his left chest. He had grey spiky hair and fiery eyes. He was
numb with feelings and had no heart. Sara and Lima nursed the wounds on
Adrian’s skull and they were taking him back home. The sisters noticed a small
cube made of diamonds and gold right below the wall where Adrian was attacked.
The cube looked like a sugar crystal, but more pinkish and there was an
inscription on it which read “Meow”.
For them, the symbol of a cat was a bad omen, but they didn’t bother anyway as
they had to take Adrian to a safe location at the earliest. Sara was very much
emotional at that moment and she offered a kiss on Adrian’s forehead and mumbled,”Come
back to us brother.” Adrian had no response to stimulus whatsoever. Sara and
Lima were running down the alley and there stood a group of tall grotesques in
black robes. The girls stood still, their hearts pounding, and Adrian
motionless. Their leader quietly neared the sisters and with a baritone he
asked, “Hand over the pie.” Sara and Lima were perplexed. They didn’t know what
the man was asking. Both shared a blank stare with each other and with an ailed
voice, Sara answered, “What are you looking for? We couldn’t comprehend your
requirement.”
“The cube!
My dear Bohemian sisters” he briskly answered.
Sara slowly
put her hand in the pouch and reached for the crystal. The daughter of the
illusionist and a theatre artist was playing in her court and she knew exactly
what it was. Sara held the cube in her palm and ordered the man in the black
robe, “If you seek for it, you shall see the unseen.” The man stretched his
arms to grab the crystal and Sara dropped it on the floor. The whole place exploded
with pitch black darkness all around.
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