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A Deadly walk
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The sun was setting in the horizon. I watched it and wondered should I walk towards it or wait back.
I have been born in a family of astronomers, my father, my mom and grandparents. They say there are stories hidden in the path of the stars, stars shows us the path of catching the unusuals.
Since my childhood I knew the movement of the stars, I knew what they say and how the life's are affected.
My father left us when I was a kid or he was taken away, because he was important.
Although stars never tell anything about him,ni sign no reflection nothing.
To walk on the horizon was my childish dream because there is no place on the earth 🌎 like this. Neither in north pole or south.
It is a common saying that sun rises from east and sets in west. But that is just a saying, sun is still"it never goes up or down. It is the earth which take the initiative and takes a round.
Back in my mind I knew one day I will walk on the horizon. I started researching and started meeting people from around the globe. It was not easy for me because back then "women alone is ghost". I was born in 1776 and my name is Neena. I am famous as a witch,my neighbours tell stories to there children about me. There's also a price on my head of found alive.
They think I am from outside world who came to haunt men. My interest in stars and meeting with men alone is not usual.
Most of the men don't set meetings alone as they think I am a bad omen.
But before I could find the horizon I have to go through many obstacles, before I have to find the showers of stars. It is said the shower of stars ends worries. End worries? Worries are something that cannot be end for mortal lifes. Then what shower of stars means. I have to find the answer. And to find the answer I need a burglar, a burglar who is single and sharp and smart.
There is one but he is famous, hard to find and cannot be trusted. That is why he is a burglar.
I hear stories about him,even saw him once when I was 14 and I think he was around 27.
They say he has many enemies because after stealing from them he gave them back, to make them feel they cannot stand against him.
But how to find him, he is the one who can take me to my journey.
Or I have to persuade him. Finally, on 17th January when the winter is roaring and I found him, completely drunk but. still him. His name was or better if I not mention the name.
He was a good leader but with no moral values,no amount of decency and no personal hygiene.
But why he was so wanted, what makes him so unique? No one knows.
But why I want him, because he can be a perfect partner in crime. If he get caught I will never regret it, if he got killed no one will care as he doesn't have any family.
He agreed to with me on 50-50 partner ship, for him I am just an ordinary thief. He doesn't knew I was an astronomer. Our mission started by planting a hoax around the city, that witch has arrived and taking men in her control to which this town has to be abandoned.
By spreading this hoax most of the family and institutions were abandoned.
And he did it he stole whar I wanted the most. The map of showering stars, but he warned me though, that the thing I am going after is from where no one comes back. Like he new something, but never said anything. His behaviour for me is quite unpredictable he kind of protecting me. But why, why he would do so,I kept asking myself.
For me horizon was nothing but a theorical line, which separates the earth from the sky. And one day I am going to walk on it.
But what this mysterious burglar, why there are so many stories about him. Who is he many say he has seen the horizon he came back from death.
After spending time with him it came to my knowledge that he knew my father. He also knew who I was and where I am heading too but why he never told me?
Is my father alive I asked him gently like I really care for my father. Sweety, even if he is alive I will not tell you because i haven't got paid yet. Like I mentioned earlier no moral values.
Tell me about the showering stars as my curiosity started to know more about him.
He liked in his own passion like a thief, showering stars is a place wher as ll worries ends. But I thought this isn't a lie I knew this but he also mentioned this is the place where where sun goes upside down.
Upside down? what does it even mean you are completely fake an ignorant man I have ever seen. He looked at my and smirked lady how many men have you seen before.
I started getting bad Vibes about him that this man is nothing but just a filth, who is not going to help me.
He took me through the dead sea near an island which people believe is cursed.
Long time ago a man drowned the ship of many thousands of soldiers who were trying to catch him.
It is a place where if you even got hurt you won't be dead but wound will never heal.
This is the scariest place I have ever been through.
I looked into the sea, saw the bodies men drowned in and the body still not decomposed.
Then I saw to this filthy man he was enjoying his fish from the same water.
I mean what kind of a man is this I thought.
As we entered into the island our boat sunk in and we drowned.
But not dead, it was midnight moon was showering its light upon us. We were choked in, not dead not alive.
It was then when for the first time I saw the showering stars. It was nothing but just a water pumping from beneath the stone and the reflection of moon light which looks like a group stars.
But how do we get out from here is there any hope or we will be stuck forever here.
Before we entered into the island, he told me he knew my father, and my father was the one who was a given a task to bring the in the man who saw the showering stars because they believe it's nothing but just a myth.
He was the only person alive who saw it, so they chased him with army personnels, but in return they got drowned into the same island in the dead sea.
He asked me I wanted to sea my father he can take me but she has to pay the price, " where the worries ends"phrase actually measn death. No life no worries.
He told me he tried to save men of rhe ship but failed. He also said I can walk on the horizon when there is no worries.

© Fareed Ahmad khan