"MNEMONICS. .? "

Ranjith croaked. ...

   " a password. .? "  Sumo quizzically arched her brows. ..

  " ought to be. ..!"

Shravan  said thoughtfully, resting his hand at the table. ..His eyes wandered through the second mail. ..

    While he was thinking, Ranjith touched Sumo's shoulder. ..

" sumo. ..what's this mnemonics. .? "

  " bhukhad. ..it's some association of words used  to remember something. ..for example. ..'VIBGYOR '  to remember colours of rainbow. .? "

Sumo explained him and he pouted with a nod. ..

Shravan ran his fingers at every line of the second mail. ..

  'Everything isn't the way it looks. ..sometimes you need to look deeper  within. ..this entire world is full of 'maya ' that misleads you. .but not every time I suggest. .!!..!...!!'

  Shravan paused at the last lines. ..

Ranjith noted down the morse code ....

'..!!..!...!!'

" shravan. ..the code reads 'key '....do you get anything. .? "

Ranjith looked confused. ...

  Shravan read the mail repeatedly. ..He clenched his eyes , rubbing his temples. ..

  He stood up in a flash. ..He reached the jewel box and hurriedly inspected it. ..

  " shravan. ..did you get anything. .? " 

Sumo rolled her eyes eagerly. ...

" sumo. ..see the lines. ...'maya, that misleads you. .but, not every time I suggest. ..'..."

    Sumo waited patiently while Ranjith checking the jewellery  box  again. ..

" so, the clue is the word ' maya ' that will lead us correctly. .."

    until now, sumo was hell confused. she couldn't decipher so fast as shravan. ..hence, she opted to go with Shravan's idea...

  Little while latter, shravan  leapt in joy to find the word ' maya jewellers'  in the box. ..

He emptied the box and carefully disintegrated it. ..

  To their surprise, the box contained a thumb sized electronic card disguised in it. ..

  Shravan took the card and viewed it incomprehensible. ..He couldn't manage himself as a  beholder of something that's considered important by ramnath  more than his   life literally. . ..

       " so, here's the key and password. ...but, where's the door. .? "

Ranjith asked intriguing. ..

" perhaps the next lines of the mail. ..? "

They headed to the mail again. ..

  Unfortunately, those next lines weren't easy as they thought. ..

Shravan couldn't pinpoint anything except the word ' bhagavat gita ' and 'Lord krishna s wisdom '...

 
   Eventually, the trio fell tired. ..

Already it was almost twelve at night. ..Ranjith took the couch as his comfort zone and dozed off at sitting posture itself. ..

  Sumo sat with  shravan though she felt sleepy. ..she started to work with the next day 's schedule as she had been a part of the research programme now. ..she focused herself to monitor the growth of the Extremophile in a graphic chart. ..in between she eyed shravan who was extremely disturbed and thought to leave him undisturbed ...she had a observing look over him every now and then for  her satisfaction. ..

  Shravan's mind was virtually like a haunted boat at a strom. ..He couldn't decipher his father's idea and  intention. ..

   He couldn't even wink, looking the electronic card puzzled. ..

  With the complicated search he went through, it was crystally clear that the end of this quest would be a worth for its long enduring search. ..the importance of the message that his father wanted to deliver him anyhow. ..but, his inability to find the left over cue, the door made him to think more than worse. ..

He desperately leaned at the chair, looking the ceiling with a deep sigh. ..

    Sumo stood behind him, softly massaging his scalp. ..

" shravan. ..I know it's important. ..you didn't even wink ...take some rest. ..perhaps you need it. .."

   Shravan grasped her hands to garland his neck. .

  Kissing her palms softly, he said anguish  .."sumo. ..I wish I could kill vikram. ..He had disrupted everything in my life. ..how dare he to touch my father. ...I am restless that my hands are tied even after I knew the culprit. ..I want to know papa ' s information first. .I think, he could guide me right as vikram is a big shot in either way"

  Sumo pressed her lips on his head. ..

" I know shravan. ..but, you need to be fresh atleast to think. ..don't worry, by morning we would find everything. ..."

She consoled him in the  best possible way. ..

Shravan nodded hopefully. ..

" sumo. ..go to sleep. ..tomorrow you have to go to the lab. .."

He dragged her to the exit. ..

" shravan. ..the chair is okay with me. ..let me be here with you. .."

  Her eyes were addressing love beyond everything. ..

Shravan's grin grew larger. ..

" I know you. ..come. .let's go. .."

     apparently, sumo was happy. ..she turned to leave the study. ..

Shravan looked Ranjith who's sleeping like a innocent kid partially seated at the couch. ..He enjoyed to look him by the way his innocence glinted at his face. ..With a heart full smile. ..He leaned to adjust  his posture. ..

    It's hard to explain whether it's fortune or God's will, he fell over the book rack, slipped by the floor rug. He pushed the book rack momentarily, to prevent it falling upon  him. While holding it in position, he witnessed  a strange lighting effects over the room. ..

  Shravan stood up with bewilderment. ..now, the illumination was uniform all over the room as usual. ..

  He inspected the polished wall behind the book shelf. ..there's no evidences of any electrical switches , if incase. ..accidentally switched on. ?

  
  Shravan's grey cells alarmed an intuition. ..

He remembered ramnath s mails. ..

  'Read bhagavat gita. .....which I wanted you to unlock. ...Lord krishna. ..wisdom of light. ..'

  Those words reverberated through the room. ..

Shravan felt asif fainting. ..He had overall look of his father's study that was almost flooded with portraits of many spritual events that had  Lord krishna in almost every picture. ..

   Shravan stood at the centre and keenly looked into every picture to get any connections. .He clucked in hopeless. ..

  He pushed the book rack deliberately, same like he did last time. ..

  Accidentally, his fingers pressed the 'bhagavat gita ' and the room litted unique. ..

At repeated intervels, shravan did same. ..

As shravan was pressing the book bhagavat gita to the wall, it pressed exactly somewhere to the sensor.

The brightly  illuminated light ray emerged from a point. ..

Shravan followed the ray involuntarily, in utter disbelief. ..

The light ray hit Lord krishna s palms of the portrait where bhishma was held in arrow bed. ..it continued it's passage to the other portrait of karna s death. ..

Finally, the light reached the mural painting that was hung back to  ramnath s study table. ..

It was mahabharat battle scene where krishna preaches Arjuna the archer. ..

 
   shravan stood shocked to see the metamorphosis that happened  infront of his eyes. ..it was like magic. ..

    Shravan, stepped ahead and he couldn't see the image. ..wonderstruck, he went back to his previous point and the image came to his sight. ..

  " sumo. ...Ranjith .."

Shravan  yelled at joy. ..

Sumo, who went to prepare for sleeping returned hastily. ..

Ranjith took Shravan's side and his mental status was incomprehensible as of now. ..

   " shravan. ..what happened. .?"

Sumo's talk paused midway, as she was awestruck ...

   The trio were beyond shock. ...

     The portrait was not a mural painting indeed. ... ..instead, it was a door to the other chamber. ..

Yes. ..the picture was a perfect illusion. ..

Now, they had the key and password to the illusional door. ..

Shravan's eyes leveled with tears that he had succeeded what his father wanted him to do. ..

He was about to get closure to the door. ..

 
  " visitor. .."

   The audio alarm rang up. ..

Shravan shut the study after switched it off and descended to the doorstep. ..sumo and Ranjith followed him. ..

 
      There were new twists in their life. ..

  A neatly dressed man with his crew showed his identity card. ...

" from NCB. ..narcotics control bureau. ..Mr shravan malhothra....you're under arrest ...we suspect your  association with drug trafficking at your office. .."

  The word shock was too less to describe Sumo's condition. ..she held shravan in extreme fear. .

   " What. .?"

Ranjith asked disgusted. ...

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Sorry for being late. ..I typed this chapter in a hurry. .sorry  for the typos if any. ..I don't know how far you will like this chapter. ... ..let me know your thoughts. ...

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Arulpirai. ..