The Cost of Values - Part 2-1

CHAPTER 8

Kanatal.

Continuation of Chapter 7.

Akshay and his friends.

Akshay and the investigators from the government.

Decision of the government officials regarding Akshay.

Akshay's memory - last remembered memory of entering the structure resembling the cafe and then total blank. His friends are surprised that he doesn't remember anything that happened afterwards. Is he hiding something? Government officials like Pramod Gupta suspect that the person calling himself Akshay isn't Akshay at all; but a other-world entity. What will the government do to Akshay? 

Synopsis of The Cost of Values - Chapter 1 through 7

Prema and Ramu are a couple, probably in their 50s who are working and living in Bangalore. They have two children, Deepa, who is abroad, and Akshay, a software engineer working for DataLogix in Gurugram. One day Ramu receives a call that leaves him perplexed. A few days earlier to this, Akshay and three other friends of his travel to a camping spot, Kanatal in Uttarakhand. After a couple of days of camping there one day a small building appears out of nowhere a few metres from their campsite. They walk towards that building and when Akshay enters that assuming it to be a cafe, he suddenly disappears from view. Just vanishes in front of the eyes of his three friends, who are shocked.

This information reaches the government and they come into the picture with the police to investigate. It appears that such events have occurred in the past and Pramod Gupta has been investigating this phenomenon on behalf of the government. Amrutha (one of the friends of Akshay) has been meticulous in her documentation of all that happened and she is able to explain whatever she saw to Pramod Gupta. These facts are corroborated by her other two friends Vikrant and Ganesh. Amrutha has taken some photos immediately after Akshay's disappearance, which she shares with Pramod.

Meanwhile Akshay finds himself inside a structure where he doesn't see anybody else. A voice communicates with him to inform him not to be worried or scared; which Akshay is not. The voice explains to Akshay that they have been regular visitors to earth and have 'intervened' in the development of humans here - in a positive way. They also tell him and he will be returned safely back from where he came, but he will not remember anything that transpired in that place. That is what happens. Akshay returns but is perplexed because he cannot account for the time lost - from early morning to probably afternoon now. He also sees some activities in the campsite and a few people who are talking with his friends.