Page 146 of Sumanika

Damn!

The troops of soldiers were taking the cannons out. This was the do-or-die moment. I had to break the water. I could not let them move even a single one.

Closing my eyes and inhaling a deep breath, I lifted the axe. Pacing a few steps away, I calmed my wild and intensely racing heartbeats.

Suman’s flashed through my mind. She’d survive if I died. I shouldn’t need to think about her.

And, Bhaisa, you both are happily married and have reasons to stay alive and not do this suicide mission. But I do not have any, and being alive, I could not let you two do any of this.

Rudraja will always be my favorite child, no matter how many would come. I love you, baby.

I truly love everyone: Bhabhisa, Rudraja, Guruji, Abhinandan, Eklavya, Ashwin, Ashwait, Trisha, Maasima, and everyone I have ever met.

I exhaled deeply, trying to control my emotional turbulence, and lifted the axe high in the air before hitting the marked point.

"Hey, who are you? What are you doing?" I heard the voices but ignored them.

I hit the wall again, using all the strength I had left with.

"Hey, hey, hey, what the hell are you doing? Stop!” the swords were, and I closed my eyes before hitting the wall again.

They sprinted towards me, and my breaths stopped, gazing at them momentarily.

A commotion erupted in the cave, followed by a sudden earthquake.

My heart came into my mouth. I tried to stay firm in my place. A few of them fell. The screams erupted. I felt scared to death.

But not terrified.

“If you want to stay alive, just run,” I warned them and hit the wall again.

A crack ran through the wall as lightning struck in the thunder—the noise of the wall breaking at the speed of the snake.

It suffocated.

One more attack and it would be game over.

I didn’t hesitate.

The river broke free through the crack, and I knew one more hit, and it would be done.

“We will kill you, stop!”

“I said stop,” they yelled at me, but they didn’t step forward as they were equally terrified.

“Jai Mahakaal, Har Har Mahadev!!”I screamed with all my strength and hit one last time.

My heart stopped, standing frozen, as the crack widened in the wall.

It had grown to seven to ten meters in height and width, like a thundering current.

I closed my eyes, pacing back. River rushed through the broken wall as clouds burst, and floods swallowed the villages.

The dry mud dampened.

The sound of high-pressure water leaking echoed through the cave as I watched the soldiers step back.

"Run, run away from here," they yelled to each other as they ran.

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