Free Immortals by Spartan Kaayn

smile.
    He raised his hand and pointed it to the wall on Jai’s left. Jai seemed more in control of his faculties today and could turn his neck to follow his arm. The finger pointed to yet another section of the white wall. Jai’s eyes remained riveted to the wall as if he were waiting for something to happen.
    And at that moment the wall seemed to shift and then a section of it drew up, revealing another room beyond, with a cot and someone on that cot, hooked up to a silvery machine above his head, that spewed fine sparkling blue wires that entered his head, shrouded in a very fine white mist.
    Jai was puzzled and he turned his head towards the old man by his side.
    The man smiled yet again and urged him to follow his finger pointed at the wall beyond the cot in the other room. Jai turned his head to the adjacent room and the wall beyond that cot started to shift. The walls drew apart from the middle, revealing what could possibly be a window on that wall.
    The view to the outside of that window was that of a breathtaking night sky. The sky was dark outside, with a spattering of beautiful stars glittering in the night sky. As he watched, the stars dimmed and an ethereal bluish glow filled the night sky. His eyes were riveted on the beauty of the sight and then a blue disk rose across the margin of the window. The disk rose steadily higher into the sky and painted the night in a hue of blue. Jai felt amazed and elated as he watched the lovely view. The disk made its way across the sky slowly and Jai’s eyes followed it all along. As the trail of the disk slowly faded away, there was darkness again and then there was another faint glow on the lower corner of the window. He waited, his eyes fixed on the small patch of sky that he had been allowed to watch today. The glow brightened and another disk, smaller than the first and distinctly whiter, came into view.
    This disk was smaller and yet radiated much more light than the first disk.
    The light was whiter, like the moon he was so used to seeing on Earth, and this white light dispelled the blue of the previous disk. Both the disks must look glorious in the night sky, thought Jai as he imagined the scene of the night sky. The white one chasing the blue one as they both sailed across the night sky, painting it in countless subtle shades of blue and white.
    Jai felt a sense of calm and happiness that percolated down to his core and he turned around to face the old man. He wanted to ask a million questions of that old man but he still had not found his voice.
    The old man raised a placard that simply read:
    ‘LUEON and MAJON – moonrise on the Domus.’
    The words meant nothing to Jai. He looked up quizzically at the man in the visor, who smiled and brought his hands to Jai’s face, placed them over his head and closed his eyes gently, to the whirring noise from above his head. He felt himself sinking deeper into darkness until it blotted him out of that room.

Chapter 11
    The Ambush – Replayed
    Henna’s Village, Jharia
    Jharkhand, India
    10 May, 2012
     
    Jai jolted up from his dream, on the cot in the courtyard of Henna’s house.
    As his eyes opened, he saw the moon right over his head. A single moon, and this one not full, was shining through tiny cloudlets and bathed him in its milky whiteness.
    There was no one else in the courtyard… yet.
    Jai bolted up from his bed and ran to the room where he had hidden his gun. He pulled out his revolver, a gift from Ali a long time ago, and ran to take position behind the pillar overlooking the courtyard.
    After stationing himself behind the pillar, the absurdity of what he was doing struck him. But then again, this had happened to him the third time now. And he was not sure whether he should just dismiss it all as dreams of a tired mind. He decided, though, to remain behind the pillar for some time.
    ‘Maybe now is the time that I’ll find out,’ he murmured to himself, conniving with himself into beating his own