Friday, 18 November 2016

My New Discovery...

21.7.105 A.T. (After Trump)           
Dear Diary,                                                                                                         8:30 PM
Oh, what was I going to do?!
Earlier today, as usual, I was in the site, helping my boss Gazoon Rai in our new excavation project. To be honest, I was the one who was actually doing all the work; Gazoon was just ordering me around while drinking ice tea from a flask. It was an extremely hot day. I couldn’t have been outside if it weren’t for the sunshade and my hi-tech sunglasses.
“Yet another of these coloured thingies Sir,” I shouted as I took out what Gazoon said pre-Trump humans called ‘plastic’. “God,” he grumbled, “why did these people like plastic so much? It seems as if we are standing on top a town of some sort.”
At lunch, I made my way to the lunch table to rest for sometime, when I stumbled upon something. Of course, I fell down and banged my head on something metallic. I lifted myself up and gazed at what I tripped on, trying to figure out what it was. The tip of a metal prong jutted out of the ground. “Boss,” I shouted. “Whats happened?” he shouted back. I decided not to tell him though. If it was something big, he’d have all the glory and not me. “No, nothing.”
Instead, I went to get my tools. A detector and DustGo vacuum cleaner. I ran the metal detector over the spot where I tripped. The display read, in a mechanical voice, ‘Phoenix Market City. Exactly 997 years old. In a city called Chen-eye.’
Hey, wasn’t that a name for that ancient disease, Madras eye? No wait, my eyes popped out of their sockets. CHENNAI!!! I thought the city was just a myth. But here I was, standing on top of the marvelous city of Chennai!!! Oh how many wondrous things Id heard about this mystical city, with it’s dainty little shops, bustling streets, and where people talked a lot.
Well, didn’t I say that I might discover something big? Even so, I wanted to keep this herculean discovery to myself. I wouldn't want Gazoon to have all the glory, would I? And oh, think about the news. The papers would be flooding with my face, and I’ll be giving interviews to all the famous personalities. Plus, I’d have a ton of fans!!
But first, I’d have to figure out what I was standing up on. What in the world is a Market City? And where did a phoenix come from. Are those even real? Who knew, anything was possible in Chennai, if it even existed…
Oh why did I get stuck in this mayhem?
Your friend,

Nantak Rai

-Adithi Arun

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