Escape to Freedom...

Ronald didn't waste time. He was exhausted but knew that time was running out. before the fire could run out of fuel, he had to find a way out. He rushed to the spot where the vehicle was lying. He started removing the creepers around it. It took some time to remove everything around it so that he could examine it properly on how to activate the same for him to travel back to his world at the earliest.

He started checking the surface of the vehicle. He didn't find anything. Then he climbed into it and started examining the interiors of it. He could only see the scales of the wood here and there. He started wondering what to do and was just about lay down in the vehicle. He could suddenly see some sound below the vehicle as if it is getting lifted. I got up and checked I was actually suspended in the air. By now I could also hear noises of the wild people who'd come looking for Ronald. Ronald started sweating & was feeling hungry. He had very little strength left in him and he had to pull it off now. He was trying to find out how did the vehicle lifted itself on its own. Then he realized while he was about to lay down in the vehicle, it had lifted itself like a space vehicle vertically. So he tried again to lay down. This time the vehicle moved upwards gaining momentum & speed. Ronald knew that now the vehicle will not stop and hence confidently saw below. He could see the 50 odd wild people showering praises at him & bowing down in respect. The woman were longing to be with him again as they enjoyed being with him. Ronald stood tall in the vehicle & waived them good bye for the last time and just vanished into the clouds.

The vehicle had reached tremendous heights and was getting cooler. He now could witness the same atmospheric hole which he had seen while coming to this primitive world. As experienced earlier the vehicle got sucked into the hole and 'phew' he was back into his world which was more civilized, modernized then the world he had just seen. Ronald offered his thanks to the Lord Almighty for bringing him back. Due to the cool atmosphere and the happiness of getting back he dozed of in the vehicle totally tired. Ronald could now again smell the fragrance of nature, the scent of flowers & the cool breeze the same feeling, which he had experienced while going out of this world.

Suddenly there was a sparkling light coming out of no where and pecking his face every now & then, playing hide & seek. Ronald opened his eyes and was astonished to see that he was sleeping in the lap of one of the Gulmohur tree bark and the sunlight kissing his face between the Gulmohur leaves. Ronald couldn't believe the experience he had just now and whether his experience was real or a fantasy., whether it was a dreamworld or was it real? Ronald had no idea. Ronald started looking around to see if he was wearing the same clothes when he was in the other world. But he was disappointed to see he was not wearing those clothes. He started to check if he can find something to prove or tell some one that he had such an experience, but all in vain he couldn't find anything to prove. He consoled himself thinking that probably its natures wish to keep it like this. This experience was totally private & exclusive for Ronald, was the feel he got & he accepted this verdict of mother nature & the divine ways of the Lord Almighty to allow him to travel in time back only to make him feel thankful for what he has today and be happy with what he got.

Ronald got up and started walking towards his home with a heavy heart, full of excitement and watching back a couple of times towards the Gulmohur tree bark from where he got his enlightenment of a different experience all together. He reached home and was happy to see everything was normal. The time spent in a different world was not apparent when he met his folks back home. It was a mystery that he'd spent almost a lifetime during that small peek into a different world. Ronald was enriched by this thought. Ronald was hungry and gobbled up what was available on the table and rushed to his room and just wished to sleep for sometime as the experience was overwhelming and still looming large in his thoughts. He was sad that he couldn't prove this to anyone as he had no proof. At that very moment a rare colorful bird came and sat on the window pane with a green cloth in its beak. It made a very sweet sound as if the bird wanted to convey something.

But Ronald suddenly noticed the cloth in the birds beak. It was the same cloth as the trouser color he was wearing in the outer world and he longed to have that as a proof and ran towards the window but the bird and the cloth had vanished by then. This was an indication that some things must be always kept under wraps. It is better that way.