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The sand grains of the desert...!
#WritcoStoryPrompt2
A wet leaf fell on her shoulder making her jump in fear. Startled she shifted from her hiding place behind the bush.At that night we looked out between the leaves of tall trees.Our bus was parked half a kilometre away from here.It was a study tour.After collecting some materials and various specimens and visiting the institutes of researches,we returned in the evening.
When we walked through a large area for purchasing items and many of us involved in purchasing fancy items...our professor asked us Whether we can select a good frock and shoes for his daughter?"He ,with him brought her photo in his long cloth bag .We; all students gather together for selecting a rose frock and shoes for her.She was about five years old at that time.
In the evening,our teachers said us about a desert,nearby .So we went to find out.
Deserts are always the lands without hope literally....Sometimes with great heat.... sometimes possessing oilfields....Living beings are in need of water....for those who can store water within the body itself....for those who can face the scarcity of water and minerals.....adapted.....only can survive!
and this serving home for many.....camels,kangaroos,cactus plant,bushes,wood peckers ,owls ....
The sand dunes near beaches is a wonderful sight!.The fertile soil of oasis formed due to the presence of water is another different experience.
When we look through the trees eagerly....unexpectedly...we can see there were so many lamps fixed in all sides of a tent.Several people were there gathering.They were discussing some important matter.They try to laugh sometime. We see suitcases in their hands in between their conversations.They were trying to open and close it stylishly.
In one of their bags we saw some kind of weapons of explosion,drugs and trading regarding wild life horns,tusks and animal skins etc.So we understood that they were smugglers.Their goods were prohibited for import and export....!
We saw a small boy in their custody crying....With the pistol in hand they shoot him...Firstly to his shoulders....one of the smuggler shouted with his words..."This is for overhearing".The other with revolver,shoot him to his legs and said"This is for listening our secret code",Another one used his gun and shoot near his neck and said that"This is for escaping"When hot blood oozes out through his destructed veins...They laughed each other....!
But all others?We thought about the other smugglers...What were they doing inside?Are they trying to arrange their items of smuggling?Whether they were arranging the money inside their suitcases?Are they bargaining?Are they involved in negotiations?or are they engaged in transactions of items with themselves?or distributing their money equally?
But when we listened it acutely,we can hear a low voice,Which was below the level of smugglers sound...Who was he?When the smugglers raised t he curtains,we can see a man lying in a bed with his hands and legs tied to the wooden bed with ropes.He was so weak...so when the smugglers asked questions he tumbled....
So they decided to prepare food for him...with laughing....criticizing....murmuring....involved in conversations....we astonished whether how they easily make good dishes in this annoyingly clamorous noise?How can they serve it in anger and bewilderment?How can they taking in food in disagreeable environment?
Food should be prepared with exact boiling,consistency,timing....Experience is needed to achieve this eventhough we know about all its ingredients.It should be prepared with right involvement....affection... The preparation of food should be in untroubled circumstances...Taking in food also should be done undisturbed.....If we take food in troubled circumstance....in between unwanted conversations.....criticisms...it acts like poison,affect your health...weaken your body.But in the midst of peacefulness,it will improve your health...energize your body...acts good side by side with your medicines.....
They gave him food ,water...gave additional oxygen supplied using cylinders....He was shievering with fever...They gave blankets for overcoming cold.....fix basins for collecting urine...everything needed for a sick person.....
But we don't know why they were interested in saving that old man?.We consider him the father of one of the smuggler ! whose present situation was in danger.So some kind of humanity...leniency...setted safely in their mind somewhere....we think.
At the sametime the condition of the boy was going to be dangerous. We can see his heart beat under pressure...He ,so many times asked for drinking water and slowly moved to the hands of death....They with their leg ,pushed his body outside....And all on a sudden went near to that oldman....They asked"Where is that smuggled items...which you had taken from us...try...try to remember...As we give it to you while escaping....where?Where....?Some explosives....packets of drugs?
He said "I am trying....but I can't remember....As it was night time...I put it somewhere outside...later I never can't find out?
"Are you drawing your entire family endure its illeffects...That is we also decided to kill them soon...."smugglers reminds him
Hearing this that man thought a while....He seemed fearful for sometime and said...."I wanted to see that place...once more and search...."
To the smugglers ,that things was not acceptable...such a valuable thing ....He forget...No ...never...such a situation...never happen...He know but never say....As he don't want to lose it...That is the reason...."
So using the pistol beside his head,they again asked"Where....Where...remember...?"
He then asked for water...They have him water...served him for hours...
At last he said...."Inside my house...in the corner of the plot...moving through the underground steps.....you can see a block...I hide it there...it was shut with grill gates and locked.The key of it in my house...in my cupboard.
We listened them some more time...But trembled a while by the sound of the gun.They killed him.....Then they inverted the wooden bed along with him....
Then they took their bags...suitcases of money...theft items in containers...destroy the tends....threw away the lanterns......
We expect murder again....They will kill each other....At last what remains....if any man among them?any smuggled item?If money? Anything?It was certain that if not happened today...it may happened in any other days....
The crime of killing,smuggling..!..an evil path....human values are unimportant there...unwanted there...uncivilized norms....stringent interventions.....Destruction....which can't be recovered by any means of life....
When they went out We reached there and searched.We found two bags of explosives and drugs under the things scattered there.We informed the police and handed it over.We said them the whole story.
Our teachers said"First of all,we apologize for the late information of crime,which had happened infront...we are some teachers and students came here for study tour.We came yesterday and will return tomorrow......We never expect any crime or murder here...At the sametime we have no weapons to deal them with....and not at all prepared for that....so can't encounter with them and so can't be the part of the situation.They went for about fifteen minutes ...We expect they can be caught if you move fastly.....".They made arrangements to remove the dead bodies!.They affirmed us to adopt strict night patroling at that place!
The police tried to track them and chase them .Sometimes they were caught and transforms their lives after imprisonment ,We hoped!
We packed our luggages after that dark night in the desert...Higher in the sky the Sun is inclined in the hemisphere and seen with more brightness....
Our bus started alarming all of us to enter inside.....!!
This desert is holding hotness but at the sametime take away the hotness of lives...This sand grains in the desert were hottened for saying the truth....!
By the tragic events there,we thought that we humans are just like camels of the desert....bearing the luggages of virtues and sin..like moving above the hottest desert ...through births and rebirths...to somewhere farthest....!!!

© Uma.V.S