After a while, a sound seemed to reach my ears faintly, and it seemed to be like humming, perhaps coming from a swamp, and it repeated at regular intervals, it sounded like a sound of a gong, suspended up in the sky, and it repeated incessantly. I listened to the sound, but I could not figure out, which sound it was, and I was too much puzzled. I wanted to associate the sounds with any known sounds I know. The sounds seemed to be coming nearer, and sinking away in remote distance, it seemed like coming from the bushes, and sometimes it seemed to be coming from the opposite direction. The sounds seemed to be coming from swamps, among the bushes, from the river, sometimes in front of us, and sometimes from behind, hovering overhead, and from the opposite direction too. The elemental forces of these regions have surged, and as the raging storms dropped, we are able to listen to these sounds. Jagat uttered, "I heard this sound whole day." Thus, Jagat had brought the conversation in, and he talked about hearing whole day. Jamuna and Amrit too confirmed the same, and thus, the topic changed, and everyone were talking about this secluded region. Everyone could hear the sound, and it something we cannot defy. I wanted to divert the attention, so I conversed that, it could be the night creatures, or something natural, but it was of no use, perhaps, even my wife did not believe it. Jamuna uttered, "Perhaps, we have strayed out of the safe line." The gong sound seemed to be coming from overhead, and my wife conversed, "This place is quite secluded, also the sound seemed to be not natural." My friends were talking about it, but I knew if we leave this place, we could be facing raging river ahead, as the rains ahead are quite heavier, and I did not talk. I looked at the sky, and the clouds were massed all over the sky. Jagat uttered, "The sound seemed to be non-human." I was nonplussed, but I knew that, he was right. Ravindran replies, "Yes Bro, this place is quite secluded, cut off from the world, as it seems." What I felt was the fear, a sense of profound terror, we have strayed into unknown region, a region of some unknown world. Our sojourn would be a perilous here, I hope so not, we do not want to get into any disaster during our vacation.

I whispered, "We are the victims of our own adventure." We have intruded in the region of the unknown elemental forces, and the impression of this place has entered my soul. The place seemed to be aggressive to us, it seemed to attack my mind, playing mind games. I thought of the boat man, who was yelling at us, also my last night adventure, the shifting trees, and bushes, and it seemed that, they acted as a representative of those dismal forces. Jagat conversed, "The man on the boat last night, I guess he wanted to warn us." Sesha replied, "The man was just passing by, but it could be true. I do not have any gist." My wife chimed in, "This place is beautiful, and concurrently awful at the same time." The wind began to blow, and the bushes, and trees began to shiver, there were ripples in the river, as I could see under the lights of the deck. The humming sound too accompanied the wind, and it moved overhead. I looked at my wife, who was at my right, and she was chatting. I tapped her gently on her shoulders, she looked at me, gleaming, and I conversed everything which happened last night.

My wife's face turned white, and she replied, "We got to tell to our friends, you shouldn't have hided it." I said, "I am sorry, the river is still rising, and violent, and we cannot go ahead." My wife uttered, "if we go slowly, and don't move at the middle of the river, we can hold it." I replied, "Ok then, fair enough." I told my wife to first get, Sesha and Jagat's attention, and then I revealed my truth. A thin smile spread across Jagat's face, his smile conveyed that, my explanation in the morning was totally absurd. Jagat uttered, "Though, your wife has got a point, but we have to consult to our friends." I then got up, and then again revealed to my friends about the incident. Jamuna uttered, "I would say that, I felt something unreal in this place, I saw something moving among the bushes, hopping from branch to branch, I do not know what it was, and I thought it was the fragment of my imagination. In the afternoon, the sound, the humming sounds, I heard, it confirmed that there are some strange presences, but still I was not sure." My friends were surprised, but we talked about it, and the river is flooding, and we have no option, even they considered my wife's opinion too as a matter of fact.