2 Chapter 1

I screwed up! I didn't say the name properly!

My first thought when I came to my senses.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

--- after a few minutes of freaking out----

I calm down from my freak out. I look around my surroundings and try to get my bearings to see where I am at that particular moment. All I see around me is the rushing of pictures of various people, beast, mountains etc. I get the vague feeling that I am travelling at a great speed across the cosmos to my destination. All I had to do was wait.

After what felt like a month I see the pictures around me slowing down and I get the sense that I reached my destination.

After a few minutes, I zip through a small village near the base of a lush green mountain and enter into the second biggest building near the center of the village.

*aaaaaaeeeeee*

I hear screaming and look around the room.

The room is smaller than my old bedroom in my apartment with a single bed in the middle. On the bed is a lady in the middle of her labor. There are three other people in the room. Two nurses are holding down her legs apart trying their best to resist the woman's thrashing about. Another elderly nurse is helping and encouraging the woman through child birth.

"Push. Push. That's it. Slow and Steady."

"Keep pushing. Don't stop."

*grunt*grunts*

There seems to be some thing pulling me into the woman and I am completely helpless against the force and soon,I was sucked into her and blacked out.

*baby cries*

"Look at that Mahi. You just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy."

The other nurses, take the baby for cleaning.

Receiving the clean baby, the elderly nurse places the baby in the Mahi's arms.

"Have you thought about a name?", the nurse asks.

Mahi replies," Yes. He shall be called Surakshit. It means safe and secure. I want my baby to be safe his whole life."

"That's a great name",exclaims the nurse. She slowly leaves the room leaving the new born baby with its mother.

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The head nurse is sitting in her office, writing a birth certificate for the baby, when she heard some one approaching her office door loudly and in a rushed manner. She stands up in time to see one of the junior nurses opening the door and shouting. "Mahi is dead"

The head nurse hurriedly runs out of her office to Mahi's room. She sees the baby sleeping soundly next to its mother. Mahi's eyes are closed, her breathing stopped. She had a content expression on her face.

"She lost a lot of blood during her labor and soon lost her consciousness", said the junior nurse who came to inform her.

*Sigh*"This is the third this month.We already lost two women to childbirth", Said the head nurse.

"Fortunately, the child is safe", said the junior nurse.She takes the baby in her arms delicately like it is a treasure." What shall we do with it?"

"What else can we do? The orphans go to the orphanage. We can't do anything."

"But, but.. look at him, such a beautiful boy! How can you bear to part with him???" exclaimed the junior nurse.

The head nurse looked at her junior, she was a young woman fresh out of her training. She had a delicate looking face and pitch black hair flowing around her face like silk. With a baby in her arms, she looks just like a new young mother.

" There is no choice. We have to send him to the orphanage. What will you do if the same thing happens again and again and again every year? There are tens of orphans every year and there will continue to be tens of orphans again next year. You will learn to ignore it with time. Such is the way of life here."