It was even later than midnight. The clock had just hit 3:17 when Vyani’s eyes snapped open. It wasn’t like she had been asleep. She picked herself up from the bed, her legs leading her to Apoorva’s door. Before she could even think about what she was doing, she found herself banging on her sister’s door.
Apoorva wasn’t sleeping, but no one replied from inside.
“Appu, are you sleeping?” Vyani asked in a low but rushed voice.
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“Appu… appu… appu… appu…”
“What is it?” Apoorva asked, opening the closed door silently, her eyes tired. She didn’t even ask Vyani why she was calling her at this hour, maybe because she didn’t have the energy for it. She just opened the door, her eyes drifting toward the street, peeking through her bedroom window, a fighter putting down her weapons.
Vyani entered the room hastily and hugged her sister, a hug that said a lot even though nothing was spoken.
“Appu… Appu… I have to talk to you. Please, please listen to me today. I don’t want to lose you. Please listen and be honest with me. I will never let them touch you, even if you say that you did it, okay?” Vyani said, clutching her sister’s hand between hers.
“What… what are you talking about, Vyani? Did you have a nightmare? What happened?” Apoorva asked, confused and worried.
“Listen, there’s this person. Not a person exactly. He’s not from this world, he is like… like an actual god. Actually, I have met god. Not exactly, but try to understand me. They all think you stole the Hucia…” She stopped midway, a sting rising in her throat, remembering the words of that yellow light, that she would perish the moment she talked to someone about the secret that was about to kill her. But it didn’t matter to her right now. The only thing that mattered was the girl standing in front of her.
“What are you saying, Vyani? Are you ill? I am literally worried right now. Lie down, I will wake mummy and papa,” Apoorva said.
“No, listen!” Vyani screamed, her voice rising. Why wasn’t her sister trying to understand when she was putting her life on the line for her? “Listen! Listen to me, you need to tell me everything, please! Did you kill that prisoner? And that cat? Do you actually have the Hucia? Just hand it to me, I will give it to Tis and everything will be fine. Trust me, it’s not something to play with.”
“Calm down, Vyani. Calm down. You had a nightmare, you aren’t awake yet,” Apoorva said.
“No, I didn’t have a nightmare! Why aren’t you listening to me? I am trying to…” A tear slipped down her cheek before she noticed Tis standing there, behind her sister, framed by the apron of the bedroom window. This time he wasn’t poker-faced. His eyes were sharp, furious, human-angry. He glared at her as if her words were a betrayal.
“Don’t look at me like that! Do you really think I won’t try to save my sister? Do you think I am just like you? I’m not! I have emotions, Tis. I will die if anything happens to her because of me!” Vyani screamed in one breath.
Apoorva, startled by her outburst, turned to see where her sister’s rage was pointed. Her eyes fell toward the window, and suddenly all the color drained from her face. Her lips parted, but no sound came out. Her hands trembled as if they had lost their strength. Vyani followed her gaze, but there was only Tis in the frame.
Only Tis.
Tis’s chest tightened. She can see him. His jaw locked, and the suspicion in his divine brain clicked into certainty. She has the Black Hucia. No one else could see him without it.
Before Vyani could say anything or process anything, he yanked her wrist with his divine powers, dragging her out of the room. It looked as if she was running out in a hurry, but it was Tis. He suddenly felt the need to protect her, even when he had come here to murder her sister. Apoorva just stood there, her face pale and hands shaking, before she closed the door with a slam after Vyani left.
“What happened? Are you insane?!”
“You are out of your mind, kiddo! Didn’t you see what happened? She saw me! She went pale after getting a clear view of me!”
“I… I…” Vyani’s words got stuck in her throat.
“You saw it, I saw it. It’s enough proof! She was there at the murder site of the prisoner who died from Hucia, and she totally saw me today!”
“Then why did you run away and why did you pull me like this? We could have perished her, we had her cornered!”
“Because we don’t know how much she knows right now. We may need backup, and you don’t know anything yet, Vyani. She will burn you to ashes!”
“Stop it! She is my sister.”
“She was! Right now she is a monster! Can’t you see? She didn’t even call you when I dragged you out of the room. She was so taken aback after seeing me that she didn’t even know what to do. Stay away from her! Now I know where the Hucia is. I will do everything it takes to take it back,” announced Tis, a small proud tone in his voice.
“Stop it, Tis, please. My head hurts from your words. Can’t you see how much you have made me cry since yesterday? You are literally telling me to kill my own sister just because you think she stole something I didn’t even know existed two months ago. And because of all this, I can’t focus on my studies, on my life. It’s like I am nothing more than a tool to you. I am a human, no matter how much I deny it. I don’t know what to feel right now. Please leave me alone,” Vyani said, crying, her hands on her head.
With that, Vyani went inside her room and locked it from the inside. She had always had this habit of locking her room, because she never knew how to get out of it.
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