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Secret of the Cursed Pearl - Part 2
*Read part 1 before continuing*
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He stared at it all day, but nothing happened. It was expected. All the stories about the pearl happened at night.
As night fell, Bijoy became more alert. He sat on the bed looking right at the pearl. He waited one hour, he waited two hours. Nothing.
Maybe it works when the lights are turned off, he thought. He switched off the lights and again started at it. Nothing happened. Bijoy started getting impatient and sleepy. But he couldn't let himself sleep. What if it happens when I'm asleep?
He turned on the radio to find a distraction. But almost all the time he could only listen to static noise. All channels seemed to be offline. While sweeping through the frequencies, he suddenly found one that played some music.
"You are listening to sleep music, only on 112 FM!" A female voice on the radio said.
He turned the radio off and continued looking at the pearl. It sat there like an innocent little stone. It did nothing. It didn't start glowing, moving, or levitating like someone who heard the stories would expect. It did nothing.
Well… It was all a hoax. I knew this thing is no supernatural pearl, he thought.
But then he wondered something for a while and started speaking to the pearl.
"Ahhh… I was about to look away. That is what everyone does, don't they? Even after knowing the stories they eventually become impatient and look away. And that's when you do your magic or whatever. That's when you make them vanish"
Then he got off the bed and walked closer to the pearl.
"So, what magic do you do? What are you? I'm no ordinary...
***
He stared at it all day, but nothing happened. It was expected. All the stories about the pearl happened at night.
As night fell, Bijoy became more alert. He sat on the bed looking right at the pearl. He waited one hour, he waited two hours. Nothing.
Maybe it works when the lights are turned off, he thought. He switched off the lights and again started at it. Nothing happened. Bijoy started getting impatient and sleepy. But he couldn't let himself sleep. What if it happens when I'm asleep?
He turned on the radio to find a distraction. But almost all the time he could only listen to static noise. All channels seemed to be offline. While sweeping through the frequencies, he suddenly found one that played some music.
"You are listening to sleep music, only on 112 FM!" A female voice on the radio said.
He turned the radio off and continued looking at the pearl. It sat there like an innocent little stone. It did nothing. It didn't start glowing, moving, or levitating like someone who heard the stories would expect. It did nothing.
Well… It was all a hoax. I knew this thing is no supernatural pearl, he thought.
But then he wondered something for a while and started speaking to the pearl.
"Ahhh… I was about to look away. That is what everyone does, don't they? Even after knowing the stories they eventually become impatient and look away. And that's when you do your magic or whatever. That's when you make them vanish"
Then he got off the bed and walked closer to the pearl.
"So, what magic do you do? What are you? I'm no ordinary...
