Mysterious man thought on Sathasiva Namboodiri's phrase 'Who can tell how many trees and how many forests are hidden in one seed'. Meaningful words! Voting is important for an astrologer. Prophecy alone is not enough. Only with strong instinct one can reach certain conclusions. Sathasiva Namboodiri was able to achieve that.
It is unwise to ignore his words, "He will be extra ordinary if the boy had not died."
Then Manohar came in hesitantly and the mysterious man looked at him questioningly. Manohar held out a slip. The mysterious man bought the slip and looked at it.
"Karthi had called and talked with his family from that mountain top. The whole family has gone to the mountain to fetch him”
The mysterious man asked Sathasiva Namboodiri as if nothing had happened.
“All right sir. You said there were still dangers waiting for this boy. What would it look like? Will the boy survive or not? ”
"Nothing is conclusive. There is a risk to life. His enemy will be much stronger. We can say 50-50 chances are there for his survival. ”
He was disappointed that he did not give a definite answer. But there is nothing wrong with that. The horoscope was like that. He also knew. But he came here expecting that he would make an additional or definite answer. He additionally said that seed example. That example agitated him inside. If the seed is allowed to grow, it will become forest. He will not allow it. Will never allow.
The mysterious man got up immediately. No sense in wasting time here anymore. The return of Karthi has created an urgency to plan next.
“Thank you very much sir. I'm leaving” he said with much reverence and folded his hands repectively.
Sathasiva Namboodiri also folded his hands respectively.
"It is surprising that you care so much about those unknown persons. If you meet them by any chance ask them to be tread carefully. My blessings to their victory. Good souls must prevail, because the entire humanity is dependent on it.
Mystery man was unable to keep a straight face. But he achieved it and left the place.
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Uday was overjoyed when he heard Karthi’s voice on the phone. The eyes wetted automatically. Overcame with emotion, he finally asked.
"Where are you?"
"The same mountain top. You come and we can go back together ”
“Are you okay?”
"I am just fine. Come soon”
“You wait there. I will come there in an hour. ”
“It is not necessary. Drive properly and come”
Uday said that Karthi had called, Selvarangan also started with his son. Emotional Gnanam hurried to the kitchen saying "Wait, I will come too".
"Come fast, we have to go now. Where are you going?"
"I'll bring something for my baby to eat,"
Uday said, “You can feed when he comes home. Come now or we will leave without you”. Uday was very much excited to see his brother sooner.
“Wait. You are eating at correct time. Don’t know whether my baby had eaten properly or not” Gnanam arrived in five minutes with a flask, a large tiffin carrier.
Uday smirked, "You are bringing a mini kitchen with us”
Gnanam scolded, “it is because of bad vibes like this, the younger one is very weak. Come on, let’s go”
While getting in the car, Selvarangan spoke to his youngest son on the phone.
"How are you? Are you okay?”
“No problem. I'm fine. Don't worry, ”
Gnanam did not allow her husband to speak. She forcibly bought the cell phone from him said, "How are you? What happened?”
“I am fine. There is no cell phone charge to talk to right now. I will tell you in person” Karthi concluded, deciding what to say and how to say it before they arrived. He's not going to tell them exactly what has happened. That being said it will not be easy for anyone to believe. Sometimes a sweet lie better than bitter truth.
Uday parked the car at the foot of the hill and got down first at lightning speed and ran towards Karthi who was waiting there and hugged him tightly. He could not control the tears of joy that flowed from his eyes. Karthi became emotional with the tears of his parents who followed him and showered him with love.
Karthi told them since they were eager to know what happened.
"I felt a serious pain in my right leg. Then I fell down and fainted. I did not know what happened. When I regained my conscious intermittently, I've been in the woods. I don’t know how I got there. I've sent you a message to you asking you to not worry. Since I was weak, I fainted again. Don’t know what happened next. Someone in the jungle poured some herbal extract in my mouth. Then I don't know what happened. When I regained my conscious I'm still on top of the mountain. I do not understand what is going on.”
It was Gnanam who fully believed what he said. Selvarangan wondered what would have happened. Uday looked at his brother with suspicion. Karthi kept a straight face and looked at his brother. He was determined to say the same thing to whoever asked him to change.
Gnanam was the first one to notice the wound that had healed on Karthi's right toe. She just sat there and took her son by the leg and put him on her lap and looked at the scar to soothe her mind. Only then did the other two notice the injury.
"Seems like an venomous bit. Okay, by God’s grace everything is alright. Are you hungry? She was ready to address the hunger of the days since his sudden disappearance then and there. She started feeding her son regardless of Karthi’s denial or Uday’s teasing.
She only stopped after Karthi had said, "Enough, I feel like vomitting."
When Gnanam returned home in the car, she told Uday, who was driving the car.
“Uday. Call Harini and tell her right away. ”
Karthi, who was sitting next to her in the back seat of the car, frowned.
"Don't do all that. It is not necessary.”
"Keep quiet. Uday told me everything,” Gnanam shut her youngest son's mouth.
Uday was determined not to look at his brother through the mirror or turning back. ‘This mom is so naïve. Don’t know how to talk about certain things', he scolded Gnanam in his mind.
One of the lorries coming in front at that time was speeding towards their car without catching the brakes. Uday was worried as he was not able to avoid the lorry as the street width was less in that area.