Pritom Dhar

“Mr. Jamshed , what have you found with this corpse?” ” Sir, a mere diary only”. “Study it and report it to me as soon as possible.”

There he engaged in reading the diary.

” For the first time we come to you with an animal museum in Khagrachori. Don’t miss out the chance. Come with the family, friends and others.”

I got surprised and thrilled to hear such news. My blooming heart started to yearn to pay a visit. Well, sunday was the day when I entered the museum. Bones of dead animals, tiger skin and a whole composure of standing boar amazed me. But the more charm that met the eye came from that Ivory. Oh! boy, how beautiful that thing was. But I heard a whispering sound from the ivory. Was that an illusion?

Whenever i tried to approach the ivory, the guards prevented with loud shouts. “Hey mister. Don’t touch it”. This made me lunatic. I I was more desperate to hear the sound again. So I hid into the bathroom. The precedented time arrived. I secretly approached step by step seeing no one near. When I touched that piece of ivory, it yelled, ” Help! Help! My body is over there. Let me be connected to my body” I fall into the ground. This created the sound and the guards started chasing me . I started running with that piece of ivory as fast as I could. I fell into a hole and they couldn’t see me. Suddenly, that piece of ivory started whispering, “Now you help me to merge myself with my body. You have no choice!” I ran again and this time I saw a rotten body of an elephant running after me. I was only yelling to get some help, while it was desperate to trample me and I was near to be killed.

Suddenly, I woke up with the pushing of guards and I remembered I got senseless and then they threw me out. But suddenly an invisible scream touched my ears and uttered, ” Find my body soon. Run as fast as you can”. I ran and ran and finally found that unprecedented rotten body of that elephant. I immediately discovered that I had that piece of ivory in my bag. I connected it to the mouth. Suddenly, that body with the rotten flesh started to rise and began to chase after me again.

I didn’t know why it was so vindictive as Achilles but I knew I had to save my life. Then, I hid in a cave and started writing all the facts in my diary in case someone one found me alive or dead.

Storm rose and the winds started to sing,

” Nature’s guard is near to claim thy life
where thy silly body baffle to hide
Run thine heart as fast as thou
But the nature is ready to claim her revenge too”

Suddenly, I smelt that stench of rotten flesh approaching. Will it kill me?

“There the diary ends”.
“Sir, we have found a piece of ivory with the dead body too.”

Mr. Jamshed took that piece of ivory and it again whispered in his ears, ” Find my body”.

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