Chapter-5: visiting the village.
Many hens start making sounds which they usually use to make and through that sound, all villagers wake up because it acts as the morning alarm but there is someone who is still sleeping and ignoring the sound. Sun rays fall on the green fields and people of the village start calling each other with their names. Many birds start flying in the sky, the sound of water flowing in the river was like a whole village was singing a song.
Both Alice and Angel wake up and start cleaning their room but Alice was folding her bed fast. It was like she was getting late for her work and her boss would cut her salary.
"What happened? Why are you in such a hurry?"
She looked at her with a hidden smile on her face. She was about to tell her but both heard some sound from outside. Both look out from the small window. They saw many small children's were running towards the house where Hero used to live. Angel looked at her friend but she was not there, she was standing on the staircase and told her to follow her. Angel asked the reason but Alice told her that they have to go to see the Hero because he used to wake up in different styles and they all love to see that.
Both were running towards the house but Angel was surprised to see her friend excitement because her face was having a huge smile and eyes were shining like the sun. All the children were running fast because they wanted to see him and finally they all reached in front of his house and they all stood around the wooden stick wall which acted as a boundary wall. Angel saw someone laying on the wooden slab which was floating over the ground and tied up with the branches of the tree. His whole body was covered with white blanket. Those branches were very long and they covered both the houses. Alice told Angel that she should look up instead of looking down. She looked up and saw many birds were sitting. She was surprised because whole branches were filled with birds.
"Hero!! Get up…"
That sound came from inside and a lady came out who was wearing white cloth but that cloth was very beautiful. Alice told Angel that she is aunt Mary, mother of Hero. Angel looked at her and she was looking like a very kind hearted woman. She looks at all those children and she notices Alice, she smiles at her and walks towards the slab which acts as a bed for Hero. She moves his body with her hand and tells him to wake up but he does not listen and asks her to let him sleep. She stood on the side, she looked at all the birds and smiled. Suddenly, all the birds start making sounds. It was very loud, they were moving from their places and some of them stood on the blanket and started jumping.
He started moving his body due to those sounds. He fired up with that sound and took his hand out from the blanket and made a fist of his hand. Suddenly, all the birds get silent. … He slowly grabs the blanket and that blanket slides down from his face. Angel heartbeat increased. Sun rays fell on his head but he stopped because he felt that the sun rays were very sharp so he looked at the sun and pointed his one finger at the cloud. That cloud slowly moved towards the sun and stopped all the rays behind it. He removed the blanket from his head and stretched his body and took a long breath of fresh air.
"Get up, your father needs your help."
He wrapped his blanket and Angel was staring at him. She could see his shining face and she had a small smile on her face. She lost herself and Alice noticed this thing. She told her that whenever someone meet him for the first time, he or she lost themself.
"Hush."
He was trying to make all the birds fly from all the branches. Small children were laughing at him.
"Hii Hero." Alice shouted.
He looked at her and he also waved his hand but he was still feeling sleepy but he knew that children were laughing and what they wanted from him. He unwrapped his blanket on all the children. Suddenly, many sweets fall over them and some of them catched by Angel and Alice. After that he went inside to another section of the house.
All the children start walking away from the house and Angel also starts moving but they both stopped because they heard a sound. Someone was calling Hero, when they turned back. They saw a man, he had no dressing sense. It was like the dress which he was wearing, that was old. He had no slippers on his feet and hair was untidy.
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"Alice… who is he?"
She was shocked to see him but he entered inside from the gate and at that moment. Hero came out and took him inside.
"His name is Sam… and he is a crazy man off this village."
But she told her that after getting fresh, she will take her for a round of the whole village.
Both were roaming around the village and Alice was telling about each section of the village. She took her to the market section from where they get all the sweets, crockeries, many other food items, clothes etc.
There they had some sweets and went away from there and she took her to that section where other people used to live. She told her that section belongs to the backward class and their families never let them visit that section. Angel was surprised because they can visit the whole village and other places but they can't visit that section of the village.
"Why?"
Alice also does not know about the answer but Angel asks her about Hero.
"Can he visit?"
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"I don't know."
After that she shows her that river from where they get water and after that they visit that section which was used by villagers for herding.
Angel was feeling the beauty of that village, she was looking around and found a forest which was behind the river and it was dark black in color. She was wondering that in this beautiful village, this black forest is like dust in the eyes. She also saw some small houses which were broken and black in color. "Alice… What can you say about that forest?"
She told her that it is black forest and no one used to visit that place because everyone fears from that place. She pointed her finger on that river and told her that the river acts as a boundary for villagers. They had never crossed that river. Angel smiled because it was like a story for her but Alice told her that she had heard some sound which was coming from that forest.
She took her back to the house and told her that for some days, she will give her wood for fire and tomorrow onwards, she will teach her how to search for wood in the jungle and fields. While taking wood, Angel asked her about the black forest. Alice told her politely that some people used to say that some witches used to live in that forest and the example is Uncle Sam, who went inside with his family members and they never came back from that forest. … After that day Uncle Sam became crazy man and only Hero is the one who can understand him and he always used to visit his house for food. She also told her about the house which she had seen over there.
Meanwhile, Angel's father came and told everyone that he got the work in the office and he will send her daughter to the school. That was a happy moment for all of them and he bought some sweets for everyone. Alice requests him to give that sweet to Hero because everyone in the village said that he knew everything and he can guide anyone. Angel's father told her that she used to listen to many stories, that's why she is saying this. He did not listen to her and went out to give sweets to his neighbours because he will not go that far for giving sweets to a small boy whose age is just 14 years.
Suddenly, a sound came and it was like someone was warning everyone.
"Everyone!! Wild hogs had entered the field."
Many people started shouting and they all ran out from their house holding spears and sticks in their hands. They were shouting around the field. Both of them went out to see what was going on. They saw that all the people were running towards the house where Hero used to live.
"Wild hogs went there only?" Said by Angel with surprise.
They all stand out of his house and start making noise but his mother and father came out and told everyone that he is eating food. But all the villagers were looking scared and they were requesting her to call him for their help. She was about to answer them but Uncle Sam came out and told Mary that her son ran out from the backdoor without eating food.
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She shouted.
"Hero!!"