T R Mist
Continuation of Night-I, Night-II, Night-III
The Game of Shadows II
The story so far: The protagonist
is leaving to meet his friends at the Sunshine Cafe when suddenly he is called
out for from a dark alley. The man is an old acquaintance whom the protagonist
had named Corto. Corto cryptically mentions about his involvement in the
failure of the light globs of the city, which stuns the protagonist.
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“You with me?” I
was too stunned to reply.
“You look like
those frozen stumps of trees in the jungle”, he added. “Don’t look so
confounded I have not even begun telling you what I have come to tell you.”
“You mean to say
there is more. More of your dare-devilry and machoism, of which I need to be
enlightened about?” I asked. Corto laughed. It was the first time I had ever
heard him do it. But as the man’s nature, it was brief.
“Don’t you think I
am here to boast about things that we have been doing, I came with a completely
different purpose. I hardly venture out so openly, but today I have done it as
the situation demanded it,” Corto said.
