It was a very cold night.The night was really eerie.It had drizzled lightly a while back so the smell of fresh soil was still lingering in the air.The night seemed quite lonely as it was 3 am in the morning and everyone in the village would have been quite asleep .There was no soul in sight except for two figures who were busy with something. They were two tall men, with moustaches quite big that it looked like giant caterpillars had settled on top of their lips. They seemed quite nervous and shady like they were upto no good. They were packing things which seemed to
glisten under the streetlight into two gunny bags.
Tall guy 1:" Bhima I'm not so sure that what we are doing is a good thing. I mean sure, we've done a lot of terrible things in the past but this.. What we are doing is not a crime, it's a sin" rattled the tall guy in a hushed tone.
Tall guy 2(Bhima): and you think that I enjoy what we are doing Shankar.You are kidding me right. Look I don't care if it's a sin or not because if there's anything that I'd care about, it'd be trying to be on the good side of our boss,Dharma. Just imagine pissing him off. God knows what he'd do to us mate. He's quite impulsive. He could just finish off you or me on a whim.
Just as they were finished packing, they thought they heard someone or something stir the bushes but Shankar and Bhima as brave as they may have looked were actually scared to go check out what it was. So they just decided to leave it alone and get out of that place as soon as possible because they knew that this village was full of mysterious and strange things. So after packing the things into the sack, they both just headed somewhere. They both were being very cautious so as to avoid being followed by anyone or anything.They finally reached a place which was surrounded by giant boulders on all sides. It was pitch dark out there except for a golden gleaming light that seemed to be coming from a far off cave. They both moved their feet towards that light. Inside that cave were a group of men all clad in khaki coloured uniforms with a rifle attached over their backs.They all seemed quite terrifying to look at. When Bhima and Shankar entered that place, they just headed straight towards one of the guys who was looking at a map of some sort. This guy looked quite handsome and well built with an air of superiority around him. He looked like he was the leader of that gang.
Dharma :what took you guys so long? Were you being tailed by anyone? I hope you guys didn't fail me because if you did then you know what I'd do to you.
Shankar :everything went according to what we had planned.We have it all right here in these two bags boss.
Shankar sounded a bit shaky when he spoke those words.
Dharma gave out a huge sigh of relief and smiled a crooked smile at them
Dharma : good job.. Well done you guys. I knew you wouldn't fail me. You both will be rewarded for your hard work.
Saying this Dharma patted their backs and Shankar and Bhima just looked at each others faces.Just when Bhima was about to add something more to the conversation ,they heard the neighing of a horse coming from outside. They all were surprised at this. So they all headed outside to check out the horse. As it was quite dark they weren't able to get a clear picture of the horse. SO dharma instructed one of his men to go fetch a lantern from inside. When he got the lantern, he looked stunned by what he saw. All his other men looked quite scared as well. To his right Shankar was shaking with fear and sweating a lot even though it was quite cold that night. Far away from them stood a horse on top of which sat a man who had scary looking blood shot eyes and he was covered in sandalwood paste from head to toe. He didn't have any clothing covering his upper body.He had a white turban wrapped around his head. He had an angry expression to his face and was breathing heavily. He has a machete in one hand from which fresh blood seemed to be dripping and in the other hand, he was holding what seemed to be a severed head. He was holding the head by its hair. Dharma's gang members were too scared to even breathe for fear that the scary looking man might hear them .The guy in the turban rode his horse towards Dharma,near enough for him to throw the severed head at Dharma's feet but not quite near enough so as to reveal his face properly to Dharma. After throwing the head, he rode off into the distance and just vanished like that into thin air .
When Dharma lifted the head so as to look at it properly with the help of the lantern he seemed shocked and a sweat bead had formed on the side of his head. When everyone else saw whose head it was, they all were taken aback as well because the head belonged to none other than one of their own men who said who was gonna take a leak just a while back .They all thought they knew who might have done this but didn't open their mouths in fear that they might anger Dharma.