Charvi ka left hand is just like any
other left hand. It has four pudgy fingers, one tiny thumb and a smallish
square palm. All in all it is the perfect lateral image of her right hand, that
is, her strong hand. It does everything which a good left hand is supposed to
do. It shifts the gear of her car, it maintains her tissue-tushy relationship,
it carries her books as she gloriously enters her class, it plays the chords on
her secret guitar and in many other ways serves her like a good left hand.
Charvi ka left hand is much like any other left hand, destined to exist as the side kick to her right hand, except that there is a catch.
There is one thing which sets Charvi ka
left hand apart from all the other left hands and that is the fact that it is
Charvi ka left hand. Devoid of this advantage, most ordinary left hands
go unnoticed in history. But that will not be the case with this particular
left hand, not as long as it can be called as Charvi ka left hand.
You see, Charvi is, quite ironically, the queen
of the underdogs; the most kickass of the side-kicks. So she knows better than
to underestimate the importance of the seemingly less important. And it is with
this knowledge that she put apna left hand to the use of the greater
good.
Let me give you an illustration. On a fine
winter evening, in a place which is nice at that time of the day, Charvi ka left
hand, singlehandedly…err, you get my point, accomplished what was believed to
be impossible. It righted a wrong. Oh, what a moment it was! In one swift
moment it confronted the enemy cheek, shaking the very foundation of her foe. The
contact had an irreversible effect for never since then has the evil crept to the surface,
all its boldness lost in a flash.
Besides wielding it as a weapon, Charvi has
also been known to employ apna left hand for achieving quite the
opposite purposes. Sources inform that uska
left hand possesses mysterious healing powers. This information finds its
authority from this one incident where she was sighted bringing an object, long
believed to be lifeless, to its senses. At the touch of uska left hand,
a soft crooning began to emit out of the object and slowly but surely its form
began to glow and heat up. Such was the energy that began radiating from this
entity that all those who witnessed this miracle shook out of their stupor and
joined the song of the object-no-more.
And yet such sinister happenings cannot be
natural. Surely they did not occur on their own accord, simply because one tiny
girl wished it to be so. Perhaps it is the odd pattern of her prints. Or maybe
the work of a lotion crafted of exotic ingredients. We can only depend upon
conjectures and surmises but the secrets which lie behind these activities are
best known to the girl herself. What further Charvi ka left hand will do is yet to
be seen. However, fear remains that someday there will come a man, the carrier
of a ring, who will bind this unrestricted force of the girl and uska left
hand only to make the world poorer thus.
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| A rare snap of the hand in question. This photo was taken soon after a young Witch had blessed Charvi for her services with the customary black nail paint worn by her sisters. |
[Note - ye toh mere baay haath ka khel tha! So Charvi, my love, you have enjoyed quite a break there. Good. Now that you are rested well, embrace the next challenge with all your might. The title of your next post must be "Inside Out". It is a wide one. Amaze me. I shall keep an eye out for your next post here. See you soon!]
