"what??", Rudra screams in surprise. "Inside us??"  Rudra tilts his head in a adorable way, "but how?" he pouts. "Adorable", Ashitesh let out a chuckle, lost in Rudra's cuteness, but a second later comes back to reality, shakes his head, "ye-yeah!, How is it even possible" he takes a pause to think what to say next, "and if.. if it's inside us then why haven't I feel anything yet?" he couldn't help but ask.
"I told you na, that to activate these powers you need to say those magical wor...".
*Cough *cough
"Are you okay daninath ji*?", Shashi asked as a concern for that pale looking old man.
*[An honorable suffix used to give respect to people]
"Yeah- yeah I'm fine", he reassured her and moves to the 'important' thing he was going to say, "you don't believe me, right? Then do one thing, so that you can believe me".
"What?", Both Rudra and Ashitesh in unison, curious to know about that 'one thing'.
"Now, I only have two pearls left out of the eight which are 'godhika' and 'bhrang' so the rest six pearls are in your bodies, as far as i remember, that night, I mixed three Pearls in each bowl", he tries to remember, "I can't remember, exactly that which pearls i mixed in each of your bowls. So, i don't know, which powers of pearls you both grant",The old man is in his late 40's so it's only fair to forget somethings.
"And how does it matter? You just tell us those words na", Rudra is very excited to use some new powers so he couldn't help but ask daninath.
"It matters, beta. To use the powers of pearl you need to say three words, 'Shiv', 'Shesh', and the name of the pearl that you want to use", Daninath explains him that how important is this to know which pearls they have inside their bodies.
"Then there is only one way to find out that which pearls these both have in their bodies", Tina gets everybody's attention by saying this and now everyone is listening to her with full focus and that's when she gives a smart suggestion by saying "you both say name of all the rest of the pearls and see which powers gets activated by those words".
"Wow mom!!! Great idea", Rudra hugs her mom, he is full of excitement and eager to use those powers, "So, first i'll try" he joins his hands together to make the 'Namaste'* gesture, now he is quite nervous and excited at the same time. Everyone is desperately looking towards Rudra to see the magic powers of pearls, everything thing is so still and silent that you can even hear a pin dropping sound and that's when we can hear someone saying, "Shiv" *dhak dhak[ sound of heart pounding] "Shesh" *dhak dhak... *dhak dhak.
*[🙏🏻]
"Heyyyy! Wait wait wait!! But what were the names again of those pearls?", He brushes his hand on the hairs and smiles ackwardly, hoping someone to answer.
"haa(sigh) this boy!" Embarrassed Tina slowly shakes his head while saying this.
"Divya, Drishti, Jal, Vayu, Ashv and shalavrik", The old man says in his husky voice.
Soon the embarrassment on Rudra's face disappears. He smiles widely and again he joins his hand "Shiv" *dhak dhak "Shesh" *dhak dhak, everyone is eagerly waiting for Rudra to say the word, all of them are nervous thinking what would happen next, and the atmosphere is full of anxiety and finally Rudra says the word "Drishti".
There is silence everywhere, not even a leaf is moving, everything is still and that's when a frustrated voice of a boy breaks the silence "see, i told you na, nothing happened, there is nothing like magic".
"Shhh! Let him say other words Ashi" Shashi tells him not to interrupt, "Go on *beta, don't mind him".
*[. It's 'Beta' not 'bita' - E sounds like 'ai' from Rain. And it means 'son' ]
He lets out a little sigh, " ha! Okay fine do whatever you want" He gets up from the chair raising his eyebrows and sits down on the staircases which are 2 feet away from sofa on which Tina, Shashi and Daninath are sitting.
[POV of Ashitesh : he can see the back of sofa from staircases]
Rudra again joins his hands and closes his eyes "Shiv", "Shesh", "Divya" as soon as he says 'divya'
he feels something strange, he can feel a strange power in him and, in that confusion, his hands starts glowing, he looks at his hands glowing like a star. Tina and Shashi are amazed by witnessing this, their eyelids are wide open with a straight face while Ashitesh on the other side is in a great feel of shock, because from his childhood till today he's always believed that these things are not real and only exists in stories, it was like all his beliefs were shattered. That's why even after witnessing that, he can't believe that all those things that daninath said are true and that he has some miraculous powers.
{He is watching all this from staircases in a standing position}.