The Noise Sounded like an Earthquake
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In five minutes, Anand found the shrubs dwindling, and the marshy ground was taken up by a type of tall, pliable water grass easy to pass through. He noticed footsteps on the ground, suggesting someone had taken that root before him. He approached a tree rooted in the valley, sprawling around, with the stem pressing against the gorge's wall and sensed a movement on the other side of the tree.
To explain the car's position on the inclined strip of the land across
the valley, one needs to sweat through the equations of Newton and the
momentum, Anand thought. Since he was not an
expert in that field, Anand didn't take on that challenge. The car's boot suffered heavy damage, and the bonnet rammed into the gorge. The likelihood of someone escaping unharmed from it was
slim.
The driver's door remained flung open. A briefcase and an ASUS laptop were on the floor at random positions, thrown off from the back seat in the collision. Dev searched around the car using the torch and found blood on the driver's side and the ground.
The landscape beyond the gorge's edge had progressed into a slow climb and curved up after fifty meters to a higher level of steady landmass
where a cluster of tiny homes was distributed.
"We heard a woman calling out for help, which was after a
huge crashing noise that shook us all from sleep." An elderly man, a member of the cluster dwelling, approached Anand.
"I have explained that the noise sounded like an earthquake," the
man who accompanied Arjun added his statement.
Arjun considered the possibility that the woman mentioned was
the one who alerted him. Dev and two
others got busy searching the surrounding area.
The elderly guy corroborated the man's account that young
men in the Mahindra were running around searching for something.
It was all dark. The drizzling took a break. The sky turned
gentle with the mild clouds lining in between the dark offensive ones. Anand
made thorough observations of the surrounding area. From where he took position near the Blue
Honda City, the elevation of the gorge increased towards the place the Mahindra
had plunged. Matted with heavy
undergrowth and the shrubs jutting out randomly in close range made that part
not welcome, and a measure of green pockets offered a hideout for someone to stay
undetected.
The gorge in the opposite direction steadied downwards,
diverging away from the road. The
undergrowth on its sides was equally virulent and growing tall. They planned to do an intense search in the
area. Arjun proceeded towards the lower
part of the gorge using his phone flash and the torch, and Dev in the area fudged between the valley and the cluster homes. The rest moved along the gorge towards
the Mahindra spot.
In five minutes, Anand found the shrubs dwindling, and the marshy
ground was taken up by a tall, pliable water grass, easy to pass through. He noticed footsteps on the ground, suggesting
someone had taken that root before him. He approached a tree rooted in the valley for another five minutes, sprawling around, with the
stem pressing against the gorge's wall. He sensed a movement on the other side of the tree.
He adjusted the revolver on his belt and ducked under a tree's branch
crossed to the other side. Before making out anything, he felt a warm body slumping onto his chest. In an overwhelming puzzlement, he pushed the
body away- there stood an equally or more bewildered person--a young woman, he made out in the torchlight. He sensed a stench of fresh blood in the air. She went into sobbing, her hands and body
shaking and shivering. In a reflexive action,
he hugged her and felt a warm relief rolling up her chest. In the police protocol, hugging or touching a
victim is not allowed, and his action's strangeness and unfamiliarity dropped a chill of uneasiness in him.
Who was she?
"Sir, I sent you the message." She said in a quivering voice,
pulling herself away from him.
"Sir, they found two men hiding near the Mahindra spot in the gorge," Anand heard Dev shouting out nearby.
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The mystery woman has appeared!
ReplyDeleteOh yes, nothing is possible for the dutybound officer, Arjun. Thank you for finding time to read the post and please do reach out to read more. :)
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