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porcelain pieces. As they walk they can hear a loud voice with rhythmic music. They understand there are some people here; at least this is the first world, where they are meeting people, so they are happy.

  As they move ahead, they are seeing porcelain houses, wells, auditorium, etc. Further down they can see it’s actually a town made of porcelain. Now they can see those small children, no, they are actually dwarfs. Juvian is happy and talks, see I have never seen any dwarfs in my life, and believe me not even in movies, only smurfs I have seen. Franco tells, you are grown up only in height, but you are no different from them. The dwarfs are made of porcelain and they are not human, Sonia tells her observation. They also see the lady who is singing. They go nearer to her and they understand that she is also made of porcelain. She is continuously singing, but repeating the same lines again and again. Juvian speaks; I think she forgot the next line, so she keeps singing the same line. Look at those dwarfs they keep dancing in the same way, Ishita spoke. In fact her observation was right, all the dwarfs are dancing with the same movement and they keep repeating. There are birds on those Porcelain trees and they are humming along with that lady. Franco wanted to understand what’s happening and why they are singing the same lines and dancing in the same way, and also wanted to ask, how they can save them from falling roof. Franco asks, is the falling roof is this sky? How can I help you to stop it? The lady never stopped singing, but she pointed a house which is little away from there. She kept pointing that place for quite some time. Franco talks to others, I think we have our task in that house, let’s go there. They all left to that house.

  The house is a bounce house filled with air. The house is pretty much of size of a bungalow. They moved around to find a way to get in to that house, but there is no way available. There comes a dancing dwarf and he goes underneath the bounce house through a small hole. This is the indication that there is an opening which they can use. Juvian told he is lean and fit, he will get in there, but his head got stuck in there for some time and nothing more he could achieve. They have only option, that Ishita can go there, but Sonia was so afraid to sent Ishita through that hole. Ishita talks to Sonia, I will take care myself and doing good things is priority in life, that’s what you always say to me. Finally Ishita entered in to the hole, which leads her inside the bounce house. The bounce house is having lots of candies, Chocolate River, caramels, pop corns, colored balls, etc. Ishita is tempted to go and play there or to have some candies from there, but she knows that her mother, Franco and Juvian is waiting for her. So she never touched anything, she moves to the center of the building, and there are four different bowls are there. There is a chit, in which it’s written, take only one bowl which according to you is full with one element. One of the bowls is filled with grass, another one is filled with half water, another one is filled with golden coins and the last one is empty.

  Ishita thought about it for some time then decided to take the one which is empty, because according to her, it’s filled completely with air. She took the bowl and immediately all other bowls are vanished. The bounce house air is reducing now, and immediately Ishita runs from there and she crawls her way out. She gives that bowl to Franco, and he could see there is something written in it, but can’t understand what it is. Juvian tells that he can read that, as he has done lot of studies in ancient language, in fact he did read that, “The singing lady should touch this Surabi bowl, she will see the holy wording, and she has to read those lines loudly without stoppage in singing”. Sonia asks how it’s possible for someone to read something loudly in parallel singing also, this is not logical. Though everyone is having some level apprehension they decided to take that bowl to that singing lady and give it to her. She is crying at the same time kept singing, the moment her whispering increases there is heavy noise in the sky and a piece of sky dropped from there. Now Franco and others understand that if she stops singing than the sky will break in to pieces and it will damage all the porcelain lives. Juvian talks there are so many porcelain dwarfs are here, if I can take few of them from here, I will sell it as new Japanese porcelain robots. Franco talks to him, you better think how we can solve that problem, else these porcelain will sell you in this world itself, you will never go back to your world.

  Ishita asks Franco, why can’t we try recording her voice and play it again, my mother’s voice I play and listen often when she is not there. It seems to be a good idea for Franco, immediately he asks Sonia and Juvian to join him to record the voice in mobile phones. They plays the recoding, the sound was pretty good, to some extent now the singing lady got the confidence that she could go and read those words. She slowly stops her singing and took the bowl in her hand. The holy word appears in that surabi bowl, she reads them loudly as the song is also going on. The sky has become clear and the sky has become complete without any hole. The lady told them, that she is singing continuously for last 399 years to save the sky from falling. In that bowl there is a lighting Key available now. The key is emitting bluish light from it. They took the key and says bye to all the porcelain dwarfs and to the lady and moves back to the elevator.

  They inserted the key in the elevator and now the light in the key is gone, and no movement at all. There is a sigh of relief, because there is a change. Nothing is happening for another few minutes, now all of them really got tensed. Juvian is telling, instead we get locked inside the elevator, its better if it takes to some other world. The elevator started moving and slowly goes down and stops. The instruction board got those lightened words “Break them free by helping the darkened one, to get the Keys before the world vanishes and to continue your travel. Else stay here for life”. The door opens and they all walk out.

  It’s complete darkness everywhere; they can’t see each other’s face. Franco switches on, the torch light and he gives the other spare one to Juvian. Franco tells everyone to be close with each other when they move. As they move ahead few steps they can feel the water, as they walked ahead the water depth increases, and at some level the depth is stable. How much depth the water would be? Ishita are you comfortable? Sonia asks. It might be around 0.5 meter, and hope Ishita can manage, Franco replies. Ishita speaks I am fine we can go ahead. They walk little further, they se white water lilies. They all got excited and are telling each other, how nice it would be to see them in light. There came a light around 3 meters from where they stand. The light is bluish color and of palm size, in few seconds comes another light around 2 meters from where they stand it was green in color and of same size, in few seconds another light comes in white color, then comes few more in blue, orange and green color. Every second now the lights are increasing. Now they see whole lot of colorful objects in front of them, which are emitting lights. They just move closer to one of them and observes. It is looking in the shape of star. Ishita told, are these are stars? Juvian intervened, Are you asking about celebrity star, if so, I am the only one! Franco just looks up, the sky has no stars and it is completely dark. I don’t know Ishita, but they are of star shape and emitting light, Franco replies.

  By this time, Juvian decides that he will check at least one of them, he touches and lifts one of them. Immediately the star has become ashes. The other stars started rolling in the water and they move ahead further. Juvian tells Franco, I haven’t done anything, it has a weak body, and it should have maintained its body practicing in gymnasium. Now all those color stars have started rolling in one direction. Sonia talks to others, I think they are not running away, but they are trying to show some direction. Juvian is talking, that’s right but if all of them are bright, how can we find the darkened one, in this night? Ishita says, when you are there everything is possible. They followed those stars in the direction, they are moving. Franco just sees Sonia in the stars light and tells her, your ear rings are also like star which is glowing in this night. Ishita just closed her eyes and told that’s enough Franco for now!

  As they move forward, there is something which is getting stuck in their leg. Initially Franco felt t
hat and then he asks Ishita, she also says that there is something pulls her leg. Immediately he lifted Ishita and now they all could feel that grip and is getting more and more which makes the walking difficult. Franco uses the torch and tries to see what it is, and it’s the roots of those lilies. They started to creep on their legs with drastic speed and started moving up towards their head. Show them fire, Sonia is shouting. Immediately Juvian opened the cigar lighter and shows them the fire. Now they slowly withdraw from their bodies. However they are still behind them. All of them run with speed, following those rolling stars. Suddenly they see burning stones comes out of the earth and move towards the sky at high speed. From everywhere they started coming out. Franco tells everyone to run from there and go to a place where those stars are there. Franco runs with Ishita, but unfortunately he falls down with Ishita. The stones are thrown out of earth like missiles coming out of a launcher. Juvian is running ahead and he shouts, come on everyone we will go nearer to those stars,