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Everywhere there were stones and only stones, as if nature had punished this land. On that scorching stony ground, he was just a shadow, neither a home nor any destination. The soles of his torn shoes had given up, and now the skin of his bare feet was touching those scorching rocks. The oozing pus and thick blood from his feet were sticking to that hot ground, and behind were being left the red marks of his pain. The fire of the sun was scorching his body, and his throat was dying due to thirst.
Just then, at some distance, he sees a muddy water puddle. His courage gives up; he could not run, just crawling he reached the puddle and fell with a thud on his knees. As soon as he touched the water with his trembling hands, he saw his torn skin and his dust-covered face. From his eyes, drip-drip drops of tears fell and created a stir in the water. And with that same stir came a sound piercing the silence, which took him to that dark night from where everything had started.
(Start of the Flashback)
The story starts with a woman who is pregnant. At that time, it was becoming Twilight . The air was still and there was suffocating heat. On a nearby tree, many ravens crows were cawing loudly. Right there nearby was a dense forest where there were some archers who, with their bows and arrows, were lying in wait. Those knights were experts in firing the Shabd_ Bhedi Baan sound-piercing arrows. In that same forest, there was a well. When that woman had come near that well to fill water, then she did not know that here a hunt was going to happen of a demon.
Due to that woman walking, a dry tree leaf gets crushed by her feet. When the dry leaf gets crushed, then a crunching sound comes. Right then the King of the knights, King Argus, Queen Isabella, General Valerius, and Commander Seraphina were also there. So at the signal of King Argus, the knights, hearing that crunching sound of dry leaves coming from that woman's feet, hearing that sound, the King's knights fire their arrows. They thought that the demon which is in the well has come out.
Just then that woman sees that an arrow is stuck in her throat. There were tears in her eyes and from her nose and mouth, blood was coming out. From her hands, that earthen pot falls on the ground and breaks and scatters. And that woman was just taking her trembling hands slowly towards her throat, that just then from the well a hand comes out with the speed of lightning and cuts one hand of that woman, her fingers from the wrist of the other hand, and her head, and puts that head into that well.
And all this Queen Isabella sees with her own eyes. That woman's body was just about to fall on the edge of the well that the Queen and Commander Seraphina catch that falling body. And King Argus and General Valerius look into that well but it becomes very late. Everything had become silent. They saw nothing in that black water!