The Secret Revolutionary (Part III)- Short Story
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| Image credit: Himanshu Singh Gauri: Can I see you again tomorrow? Rishi: Anytime madam. (blushing) Later. that night... (Startled, Gauri wakes up a nocturnal panic attack. In a faint distance, she hears the sound of whip lashing and a man screaming. Alarmed, she springs out of the empty bed and peeks a look outside the curtains.) Gauri: Rishi....(almost crying) nooooooooo. (Husband and 2 men walk out of the stable while a dim light still leaks out of the squalor. Gauri climbs back in bed and pretends to be asleep as she hears the footsteps creaking on the wooden floorboards. She hears a thump of the bed and slight creaking from the other room. With her heart beating fast, she waits for the noises to die down to get up and sneak out of the house.) Gauri: (opening the door to the squalor) Rishi..??? (The hurt image of a broken man lifts up his head. Gauri walks over to him flashing the light emitting from lantern on his back.) Gauri: Oh dear god! (starts tearing up) Rishi: shhhhhh (getting up and wiping the tears off her face) It is okay. None of this is your fault. They found my ties to the Swaraj movement. That's it. Gauri: (Still crying) We have to get out of here, right now. Right this instant. Rishi: How? And where would we go anyway. Gauri: Switzerland. I have a friend who can get us in. Rishi: Long way from here and we'd get caught anyway. Gauri: If we stay, both of us will die. Rishi: No, I will die and you'll be just fine. And that is all I want. Gauri: And what about what I want? You think he'll allow me to live peacefully after everything that has happened so far? You'll die physically and I'll die a metaphorical death. That is even more painful since I'll have to live with that. (gashing her teeth) No. I will not allow that! We are leaving. Right now! 🌸🌸🌸 (On horseback, the two leave for Pathankot.) 🌸🌸🌸 (In a dimly lit station close to midnight, 2 unidentified individuals board the train in separate carriages. A woman finds herself in the first class while a brown man finds his place amongst the common section. The station looks busy as usual and nobody bats an eye to the usual routine.) At the dock, the same 2 of them, board the ship leaving British India under usual bookings. One officer flashes a hard look at the other one while boarding the native individual but let him go after extra frisking.) 🌸🌸🌸 Somewhere in a undisclosed remote area in Switzerland... "Do you take Hannah as your dearly beloved wife?" "I do." "And do you take him to be your husband?" "I do." (Both kiss) |
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