Sealed Coin: Soul Talks

Suresh and his son Vijay come out of the bedroom and walk towards the hall. They stand near the dining table in the hall. Asha observes that Suresh’s eye colour has turned red. Her son is looking downwards in depression. Suresh looks at Santji and speaks with him in a language Asha cannot understand. Santji replies to him in a similar language. Suresh then looks at Asha and asks, “Are you ready to be possessed?” Before Asha could utter a word, Santji interrupts her and asks, “Why don’t you tell us about your story first?” “Why should I?” Suresh asks. “It will make the possession easier,” Santji replies. “I can do that even now. How would my story make the possession easier?” Suresh asks. “Atleast your wife will know about you and thereby have a connection with you,” Santji replies.

Suresh then looks at Asha and then tells her about his previous life. The story is similar to what Santji had told her about the village culture and tradition. When Suresh tells her about the war for which he was called he said, “My wife was pregnant at the time when a war was coming to our village. As I had to do my duty to protect the village, I went to battle with my fellow soldiers. Although inexperienced, we put up a brave battle. But battles are not won with bravery alone. We lost the battle and the war.” Suresh pauses for a moment and then said, “Upon hearing that we had lost the battle, my wife had decided to kill herself. She didn’t want to experience the wrath and the pain that the invading army would bring upon her and her villagers. She also requested our priests to burn her body alongside her husband.

After killing herself, the priest did burn her body alongside her husband but they sealed her and her husband in the coin in the hopes of seeking revenge with the invaders. We were trapped in the coin for far too long.” Suresh pauses again and then continues, “But now that we have found freedom, I would like to utilise it by living our lives again. Peacefully, our family will live it without the need to go onto another war. This is the reason why I have possessed your husband’s body.” Santji asks, “What will happen to his soul?” “It will vanish as we are eating its power to maintain ourselves,” Suresh replied. Asha is shocked to hear this.

Santji throws ashes on Suresh. He screams in pain. Vijay looks at his father as though he was awoken from a deep sleep. Suresh then kneels on the ground, looks upward and a red smoke exits his body through his mouth. The red smoke escapes the hall through the window. Another blue smoke exits his body through his mouth and leaves the hall room in a similar fashion as the red smoke. Suresh and Vijay both fall flat on the ground. Asha, scared that her husband and son might have died, checks them for a pulse or heartbeat. Both of them are breathing but are unconscious. Asha asks Santji, “What did you do?” “I saved your husband’s life,” Santji replied and then took out a bottle. He took some cream from the bottle and applied it on Suresh’s and Vijay’s foreheads.

Suresh and Vijay and resting in the bedroom. Asha and Santji are now discussing about the events that took place. “I invoked the souls of our dead priests and then made sure they gave peace to the souls that were possessing your husband,” Santji said to Asha. “Souls? What do you mean by that,” Asha asked. “There were two souls that possessed your husband, one of the warrior and the other one was his wife. But only the wife wanted to live. The warrior wanted to be free,” Santji replied. “Why would the wife only want to live?” Asha asked. “It’s the story that gave me the hint that it was only the wife that wanted to live. Suresh paused twice while telling the story. It means that while the warrior told the truth about his story and wanted to be freed, his wife wanted to live their lives again. But since the husband was didn’t want to, the only person who could hold Suresh’s soul was the wife. Thus my conclusion,” Santji replied. “But why my husband and why not me? It did have the opportunity to take over my soul, “Asha said. “Which is why I asked you about your backgrounds before telling you about the events that took place at present. Consider the background and environment in which you and Suresh grew up. Suresh had a comfortable life as his parents were rich and gave him all the comforts that he needed. He didn’t face too many hurdles and problems almost his entire life. He took over family business and got married to you without a hitch.

As for you, you have had a tough time growing up. Your family was poor and you faced many difficulties in your life. You have faced incidents wherein you had to put up a fight against those trying to harm you and your family. After you finished your education, you got a job that helped your family and thereby you earned enough money to start your own business. You got married to Suresh but you say that you were lucky to find someone like Suresh. Now since Suresh was the weaker among the two of you, he was possessed easily as his fear heightened and it is easy to possess a scared soul. The one that was given the opportunity to possess you was the warrior. But after looking at you, it must have seen the bravery within you and thereby couldn’t harm you. Also the warrior wanted to be freed from the present circle of life therefore it didn’t want to live again.”

“What about my son? He was with Suresh for some days,” Asha said. “The soul that possessed Suresh’s body said that it was pregnant before she died. I guess it wanted to feel the love that normally parents would feel for their kids,” Santji said. “Asha! Asha!” Suresh called his wife from the bedroom. Asha and Santji went to the bedroom. Suresh who was sitting now and massaging his head asked his wife, “What happened here? I saw a strange dream….red eyes…a vision……” “Don’t worry, I will explain,” Asha said. She then told him about the entire incident. “Will I be alright now?” Suresh asked. “Yes you will be. You just need some rest. Your soul was being eaten upon. It will take some time to recover,” said Santji. “Mummy……mummy” Vijay was murmuring in his sleep. Asha took Vijay in her arms and said, “Mummy is here beta. Don’t worry everything will be fine.” “Where is my mother?” Vijay asked. “I am here only son,” Asha said. Vijay pushed Asha, looked at her and asked, “Where is my mother?” Asha looked at her son carefully. She then saw that his left eye was slowly turning from black to red.

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