"Wh...what's that?"[panting]. I woke up in the morning because I heard horrible screams. I couldn't find heena and our baby anywhere in the home. I rushed outside and saw that some parts of the village was burning. "I...can't move". My heart was beating faster and hundreds of thoughts crossed my mind in an instant. I ran towards a well near the fire and there was our baby on ground. "Thank Goodness you are okay my baby"[sobbing]. I immediately got her home and came back for heena. There was a crowd near the lake shouting and throwing rocks at someone. "Let me through, let me through". She was there in the lake, crying and bleeding. I hugged her and covered her with my shirt. "stop, it wasn't on purpose, she couldn't do anything about it. Please understand". "She is the only one to blame, peoples are injured because of her. Can't you hear the heart wrenching screams?" villagers said. "We are sorry, hurting her won't do anything". "Kill her, if she remains alive then the fire will engulf us soon. Yes killing her is the solution now" one of them said. "Our family is living here for so long with good relations and that's how you treat us for an unintentional mistake??? How can you say that?". "Son, you have to understand their fear. As long as she is here no one is safe, even your child. So you can move to an open place and start a new life" an old man said. "Fine, we will do that. Now let us go". Peoples stared at us for some time and went to their home but that old man stayed. "I have never heard someone having fire power, I was very surprised. Go home and take care son" he said. I helped her to stand and we walked away. "How's my baby? Where is she?"[sobbing] Heena asked. "Don't worry dear, she is good". "I was so worried. I was on my way home after a walk and it happened suddenly so I put her on the ground and ran here. I didn't know what else to do at that moment" she said. "Everything is fine now so don't cry". We got home and heena immediately ran to our baby and hugged her. "I'm so glad you are doing fine baby"[sobbing] she said. "Yeah, I found her near the fire but miraculously she wasn't hurt so I think she is really special born from a special woman"[smiling]. I hugged both of them and we got rest for some time. "Dear, what do you think about moving on from here?". "We should go, it happens randomly so we can't take the risk. Maybe we should go tomorrow morning" she said. "Yes you are right. I don't even want to see their faces. After all this years with them happily, maybe they were selfish from the beginning. We couldn't see that". It was the last night there for us. We had dinner and went to sleep. Next morning I woke up and saw hiyanshi sleeping, I smiled and kissed her on forehead but I couldn't find heena anywhere. I searched for her in and outside the house but couldn't find. Eventually I found a note in the house. It was from heena. "I'm sorry dear, you have to take care of our baby yourself. I'm going away and please don't try to find me. I'm doing this not because of the villagers but for you two. I can't risk both of your lives whom I love so much. I love you both, thank you for being a great father and husband. Thank you for loving me. Goodbye " she wrote. I cried holding the window, watching the rising sun and thinking "we could have done something about your power maybe tried to control it, I'm sorry I can't be there for you when you need me the most, I'm sorry. There's no point in living here now without you". I packed some of our important stuff and moved to a different place with hiyanshi. I could understand a fraction of heena's pain after taking this decision so I respected her choice and didn't tried to find her.
Years passed and hiyanshi was 3 now. It was tough watching after her but i was managing barely. After all I'm not her mother and I could never replace her. I missed heena everyday and would sometimes wake up from same nightmares again and again. It was so weird. In that dream hiyanshi was a bit older and drawn a painting of heena and was scratching over her with red paint. I was so afraid of those dreams. I hoped she is fine wherever she was. One day I was doing some work at home and someone knocked the door. "Yeah I heard you, wait I'm working here". After 2 min I opened the door and there were two men outside. Well dressed, good behavior they seemed gentlemen. "Who are you two?why are you here?". "Are you mr. nayanth? Is mrs. Heena your wife?" One of them asked. "Why do you want to know and why do you know my wife? Tell me the truth now who are you really?". One of them said "Look sir, I'm gonna get straight to the point. If we don't do something soon then the sun would set forever".
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