Amidst the chaos, I reunited with Chol and Sira; both were troubled. I insisted on taking the evacuation of children of orphanage dorms to safety by ourselves. Furthermore, Sira wanted to evacuate the students from the first floor on her own will. Therefore, I went with her while Chol already had gone to the second floor. I suppose he may have caught a glance of Ms. Rin, who might’ve been going there.

  Soon enough we helped in guiding most of the first-floor kids to safe ground. Chol, on the other hand, could not have restrained his tears while in the attempt to appear tough.

  Moreover, I requested Sira, “Sira! Help the kids from the storage room and washroom and take care of yourself too!”

  To my utter surprise, I observed Chol on his knees, surrounded by high tempered fire.

  “No... No no I hope it is not what I think!” ,I murmured to myself while reaching towards him. The fire was radiating excessive heat. Even being alone, Chol managed to evacuate more than fifteen students.

  “Ahh ! I can’t get up!” screamed Chol while being in agony and, only to find that someone was laying unconscious.

  “Could it be Ms. Rin? Chol don’t stay quiet! At least tell me, wait! Let me help you carry her first”, I spoke while tears streamed down my face too.

  *****

  “Dumbass! Help me, my back is burning amidst this fire!” exclaimed Chol in great agony. I tried dragging Ms. Rin to the open area of the corridor, soon after I heard a very shrill scream. It was familiar to me—it was Sira. She was trying to help carry Ms. Rin while I was helping Chol,he was tanking a burning almirah which might have fell upon Ms. Rin .

  “Sira! Wait for me!”, yelled Chol, he was charging. He closed his eyes.

  I felt a relief as if the fire suddenly felt colder. Later did I realise that Chol was no longer himself.

  “Great divine being, I shall impose a vow to thee by staking my life force. I ask you lend me might!” Chol uttered to himself while he was himself unconscious.

  In addition to that, he yelled some random words, as if he was chanting a spell.

  “Sira, take away Ms. Rin, I feel ominous abilities here,” I informed her.

  “Do-Don’t worry, Warden Rin will be in safe ha-hands now,” said Sira, agonized, while carrying Ms. Rin.

  When I turned around, I found that Chol was absorbing fire and redirecting it upwards.

  "Anth ! I don’t have much control over fire yet…", Chol fell to the ground after uttering those words trying his best to carry up as much as possible.

  The fire brigade came to the rescue and we both were safely evacuated. But it was too late; We watched our ‘Home’ being burnt to ashes. Soon after rain began and everything came to a halt. First of all I took Chol to the hospital. While on my way, I was thinking whether Sira and Ms. Rin are currently safe or not. Chol regained consciousness and we found Sira.

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  "Was it all my fault?!" sobbingly Sira replied.

  "I’m sorry but the lady’s in a vegetative state currently, her body could not handle the extreme conditions…" said the doctor, who had a gloomy face and then he left us.

  "I assume Ms. Rin entered the vegetative state due to inhaling too much toxic gases.", I said while the despair was engulfing me as a whole.

  *****

  I heard fast and hard footsteps. It was Chol. He couldn’t bear the news so he ran off probably near the river bank. Later I realised that my legs felt numb, yet to process the situation and overdoing my limit resulted in pain over my fragile body.

  There were as much as four minor casualties and no children suffered major burns, but one kid named Robert died on his way to the Operation Theatre, he was most likely being bullied or was helping the kids who were slacking off from the library period. We understood the hard way that how fragile our human life is…

  "Mr. caretaker, I will be taking my leave from this dorm now!" I told the new in-charge of our Home and left to pack my belongings, as I couldn’t manage the emotional turmoil .

  "Anth, what are you up to?" Chol asked in worry manner hoping to be answered truthfully.

  "Nothing buddy, I can’t reside here anymore without Ms. Rin ,she was our only hope to stay here.." I replied while my face expressed the other way.

  "So it’s come to this now…" Chol exclaimed while slowly sitting on the floor.

  "Why is everyone becoming so… so selfish," yelled Chol; to be honest he was the one who suffered the most , furthermore he is taking the blame upon himself now thinking that if he would have arrived earlier then he might have saved her.

  "The fate sure is brutal here, but being sad is not an option!" yelled Sira while wearing ragged clothes, she was reassuring Chol that it was not his fault and we all are on the same side of a coin. Sira sure knows when to act brave as I witnessed her giving Chol a hug while she herself was holding her tears back.

  Finally ,I finished my packing and the three of us decided to be self-dependent therefore, we set off on our own journey from this moment. To at least prove it to Ms. Rin as she always preached to us that, “Life isn't as simple for us as it is for others, we have to pave out our own path during our journey of life…,everyone has different beginning but all have the same end ”

  *****

  We left our Home after having lunch and visited the grave of Robert who lost his life while saving plenty of kids of our dorm. We had gathered enough money to book ourselves a bull-cart and move to the capital city of Ether, which is calculated to be a two-week journey.

  Days passed and we gathered enough intel about the “Central Academy of Power.”, Our continent being the weakest among the six other continents has suffered many backlashes from the neighbouring nations.

  As of now we only know about the names of continents and the academy. It is said that every continent produces thousands of ‘awakeners’ and train them to excellence, while ours struggle even to awaken. As we follow divinity, while they follow darkness and derive the elements of lightning, water, fire, wind and earth. We only hold fragile items to sustain ourselves but it serves enough energy to sustain generations after generations, by that reason only we have not yet been held captive by darkness driven nations.

  Divinity is of greater importance for various profession but currently only our continent practices it for demonstrating loyalty to the almighty, and he surely rewards us through divine interpretations, such as Chol gained mystical abilities rather it being temporary.

  We reside on the countryside of Ether, named Hana, after the divine river which flows through our land. “Anth ! Sira ! Hurry up guys.”, Chol yelled excitedly supposedly he found a cattle grazer, Chol asked him whether he can drop us off in the country capital, Ether. The driver seems like a normal person who is trustworthy ,therefore we boarded the cart and now we set off on our journey to become awakeners for protecting people around the continent.