"I spy you!" - 48

This time she thought she was lucky. She found a sharp rock jutting out of the earth. She latched on to it dearly like Markandeya held on to the Shiva linga when Yama came to take away his life!

Now she was left to wait. Not that anyone would come at that time in search of her. She felt that she could stay holding the rock as long as possible or as long as someone comes looking out for her.

But her discrimination mocked at her. ‘Who will come all the way here to save you? Who knows that you are here?’

She found herself disappointingly replying her inner conscience that no one knows that she was here. Then the idea of someone saving her is defeated.

This means she has to try to climb up the 8 feet she had slipped. She tried to look near her feet. Her heart came to her mouth. She was in a precarious condition. If she slips, she would go down by at least 100 feet. That means she would not be available to anyone in one piece.

Sweat broke out from her temples and started flowing on her eyes. The eyes started burning due to the salty nature of the sweat.

Still holding on to the rock she tried to press her feet on to the ground and pushed up. She held the rock with the left hand and groped for some other strong thing to hold.

She was not in luck. She could not get any solid support to climb up.

The darkness suddenly came and engulfed the area. She started slowly losing hope.

She tried to shout for help just in case someone comes in search of her. Her inner-self mocked at her that she has high hopes.

But still she shouted for help many times. Actually too many times. but after sometime, the throat became like parchment and she found herself becoming hoarse by shouting continuously.

After some time she could not shout also. At that time she heard a small noise and a thin  ray of light.

That thin ray of light gave her the strength of a hill. She opened her mouth to shout, but her throat did not support her. Her voice sounded like a croak of a frog.

Oh God! here is a chance to escape, at least someone is coming to the place where she is dearly hanging on to a rock.

When the light came very near, she wanted to grab the attention of the person. she started waving her left hand.

Now, to her horror the rock started slowly moving. It must be giving way due to her weight and movement.

But luck was on her side. The person holding the torch came very near to her and the light was shown on her face.

There was an audible gasp by the other person when the other person found that it was Vasupradha who was hanging for her dear life.

Even Vasupradha was left wondering whether to be surprised or to feel happy when she saw the person who had come in search of her!