The feeling of loneliness did not arise in her, though she wondered why there was no one around. She was still in thought when she saw Asrar coming towards her from the shade of the trees. Then she remembered that Asrar was her companion. It was a specialty of this place that one would remember the memories attached to anything only when it appeared in front of the eye, or else all the information of any association or relationship got pushed into oblivion. Asrar could also remember that Hina was his companion who had been away from his eyes for so many days only after seeing her. He came closer and sat next to her in the water. He told her that he had been searching for her for many days, but he didn’t know what he was searching for. Now that he had seen her, he remembered that it was Hina that he was searching for. When they sat with each other, they remembered that they had been living together for many years.

This place was called the House of Souls.

Their souls were cast into bodies for the first time at this place. They were neither aware nor acquainted with the characteristics of the new mould given to them. And on the other hand, everything in the House of Souls was created to give them pleasure and make them happy. This was done so that the feeling that was in the heart of their creator should not affect them. To get rid of that feeling, the creator had created them. Within their bodies, they had become a song of their own life and were unknowing subordinates of evolution. The things inside their bodies were also trying to get used to their own forms and functions gradually. And seeing them so involved in figuring out things, the creator was enjoying itself.

It was the day when the key rival of the creator decided to sabotage the experiment of creation. The rival did not want the creator to achieve success in the feeling he was trying to create. Hence, he took the help of his loyal subjects to find the blueprint of the creator’s strategy. He studied it for thousands of years and one day he invited the left hand of the creator, Jabaraan Zumani Khaliq. During the sleazy conversation, he was able to make Khaliq drink from a goblet where he had mixed the sap from his eyes. Khaliq lost all his senses for some time. While he was unconscious, the rival transformed him into a very beautiful green snake and sent him on a special mission. To reach the river where Hina and Asrar were sitting was a part of the mission and he had been on it for many hundred years. A few hundred years were nothing more than a moment for Zumani Khaliq.

He saw Hina and Asrar talking from behind the white flowers.

He smiled for a while on seeing them.