(97) The silent lake

I was atop a tiny hill besides the land attached to the squarely circular, deep, dark, silky-silent lake. On the opposite side, there was a small piece of land where Ana, Divi, Mira and Pramarsh were searching various ways to cross the lake and come on my side, from where they could have traded through the adjacent fields and reached the trivial village. Ana and Divi were scheduled to get married in a very old temple situated in the derelict fort of that village. They waited for a long time and then saw a wooden circular casket coming towards them flowing from their right side of the lake, which was connected to a thick jungle. They were very pleased to see the help forwarded by the nature. Meanwhile there came a pair of white swan and sat by their side, looking into their eyes requesting them to take them too across the lake.

The craft arrived, and after trying every possibility of accommodation, they understood that at a time only two people and a swan could float across in that vehicle. So Pramarsh and Mira initiated to go first with one swan, although the swan couple were not very willing to break into two. After reaching on the bank of my side, Mira pushed back the casket towards Ana-Divi. Now, they boarded it with the other swan in hand, and made a move further. Ana could make out what was on three sides of the lake, but could not see anything very obvious on the forth side. She was very curious to know and requested Divi to sail towards their left just for few minutes, so that she could explore what was there. Divi denied and reminded her that they were suppose to reach the temple before the sunset otherwise as per the temple rules, they would not be allowed to get married if it turned dark. Shunning off this remark, Ana still insisted stubbornly to go towards her left. He gave in and they turned their casket on that side. They floated ahead and were surprised to see, the otherwise so silent and mysterious lake, ending into a huge noisy water fall which was un-surmise-able from the distance they halted their move.

Ana stood up to get an idea of the depth, but her stand shook the steadiness of the vessel and it fell with the flow of the stream. Luckily they both got stuck to the feeble rope stairs which hung through the iron rods nailed deep into the end of the land under lake. Divi was closer to the lake holding onto himself with one hand on the rope stair and one hand clutching the swan safeguarding it, followed by Ana a little further. They gave a good fight to the turbulent water, but it proved difficult to come back on the calm surfaces. Divi pulled out all his energy, encircled one arm on the rope and held swan with the same, forwarded his other hand towards Ana to pull her up, and gestured her to give her hand. Before she could do that, Suri emerged out from nowhere and held her from her back, secured her and made a move to climb up. Ana and Suri had broke up sometime ago, but he was back because he could not do without Ana. Divi felt aghast to see himself as a loser, he lost the balance and fell through the unending stream to get divulge in wide waters. Ana was saved.

I could see Divi and the swan floating dead, deep down out there.