Oh ! It felt like ages that I slept ! What is this sensation I am feeling ? I slowly try to open my eyes. It takes me a while to get used to the darkness with very little light coming from sun rays from the three holes in the roof. What is this pungent smell and where is it coming from? Oh the dirty blanket. I just push it away from me.
Where am I ? Where is my little brother Ray?
I softly call out to my brother hoping he is around and can hear me. I don't get a response.
Tears well up in my eyes. I had promised my parents to take care of my little brother. I can feel a shooting pain in my temples and heat radiating from my body. I try to whack my brain for the last memory and I just can't recall what happened. The last thing I can remember is me and my brother having his favourite dessert at a restaurant in the fantasy park and some men barging in with loaded rifles.
Oh god ! Where is my brother? Did someone find out? Did they kill him? Where is my brother? As tears continue to flow down and I try to control my sobs , my body can no longer hold the stress and I fall back unconscious.
I can hear someone humming a tune but don't seem to understand the language and I slowly open my eyes. My body is no longer burning but I still have pain in my body. I can see silhouette of a man in the adjacent room which is well lit. But is face is turned towards the wall of the room which looks like a kitchen.
He turns back and I am stunned beyond belief. Who is he ? I have never seen someone so stunning and with such angelic beauty. But why is is wearing shabby clothes. I am completely confused and looking for some answers. Guess he realised that I was awake. He gives me a grin turns back and continues simmering some kind of a soup which is oozing out a beautiful aroma and my hunger pangs kicks in with my stomach letting out a big growl which is clearly heard outside.
While I continue to stare at his back, he pours the soup into a soup bowl, pulls out a tiny little bottle from the shelf, opens it puts a tiny bit of grey powder from the bottle into the soup, stirs it. Closes the bottle lid and puts it back on the shelf. He then carries the soup bowl and starts walking towards where I am.
He then pulls a tiny wooden stool close to where my cot is and places the green soup on it. He also pulls something which looks like a chair but only has three legs , and sits on it.
He then tries to tell me something which I don't understand. I just stare at him with a confused look. He then uses sign language and gestures me to eat. I don't know where I am ? why am I here ? who is this person in front of me ? I don't know if in my current state if I can refuse what's been provided.
I take the soup bowl with hesitation but I am extremely hungry and low in energy. What worse can happen, I may die ? But if I am alive after eating this stuff , I will need a plan to escape from here to find my brother.
I put the soup slowly into my mouth and I am stunned. Beautiful flavours which I have never tasted in my life start exploding in my mouth. I feel like in heaven. Or is it that I have been starving and my brain is playing tricks on me.
While trains of thoughts pass through me and I am trying to believe this man may be good or his he trying to gain something out of me and I may need to be careful , my eyes feel droopy and I loose conscious.