Now, the woods seemed to be clear and small. We soon found our way out and after few hours we were walking through the dusty part of some countryside. We heard a yell nearby. We ran towards that sound. When we reached there we saw a small bunch of people gathered round something. We cleared our way through the crowd and saw that a person was lying near the pond. We reached our hands to help him out but one man stopped us from doing so. Catarnia could not contain the suspense" What happened to him?" The person looked around and saw her for moment.
" Well don't worry about him. It always happens here."
" You mean to say people always die here like this".
I could not stop myself from asking this question.
"Oh, yes!" Was the only answer.
"But why?" Catarnia asked.
" It is said that a ghost lives in this pond therefore nobody comes to this pond if somebody comes then he never returns back to his home. This ghost does not allow any of the construction in the surrounding areas and neither allows any one to drink water from this pond."
Then he sighed and glanced upward and shivered. We didn't knew what to say so we just said "oh!". Then he regained himself and said "oh!, It is soon going to be dark we can't stay here after it gets dark or else we would also die like him. Come on, we need to get going." Then an awful thought occurred me that we don't have any place to live. But Catarnia already spoke" but, we don't have any place to live." He carefully considered her words and then spoke again " no problem, you both can live with my family till you stay here it might not be so comfortable" but we were very glad to hear that. " Thank you sir for your kindness". We both said together and followed him. As we reached a house we smelled delicious food being cooked and I was happy to see that Catarnia could also smell it which meant that she was also as hungry as me. The man led to that cottage and gave two armchairs for us to sit. We rested for a little while till then I didn't notice that he was grinning at us then he noticed me glaring at him and he spoke. " Well, my name is Moron . Our ancestors has lived from quiet a long time here. " I was not at all interested in listening a history lecture. I must say I was never good at history, in learning all those dates etc... I casted a look on Catarnia she was also least interested but she kept on nodding her head pretending she was listening. But, I was not able to stand there so I interrupted him and asked. " Sir.............." Before I could speak anything more he spoke." Oh! You can call me Moron." " Moron, can you tell me something more about the pond from which we came." He beamed." Yes, ofcourse" . He was smiling.

             I could see excitement in Catarnia's eyes. Her eyes were glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver." Till a few decades ago, that pond which you saw was used by rich landlord. It was a myth that pond has powers to make the land fertile and low cast people were not allowed to use that pond for any of the purposes because there was also a myth that the pond had some medicinal properties which would be lost if some impure person touches it".

           I was very much indignant when he said that they considered low cast people as impure and didn't have any right to the pond. Catarnia also seemed indignant but we didn't interrupt him. Moron observed it but didn't react to it and continued his tale.

         "Everything was going good but one year catastrophe came over this town and everything changed thereafter. Drought came upon this village and every pond of this village and every pond of this village dried up except the magical pond . So rich people were comfortable because they had a pond which never dried up but difficulty was faced by low cast people. Rich people started using pond water recklessly and low cast people had to spend high cost for drinking water. They were not able to buy other necessities. At that time, a small family of 2 people, a grandmother and her granddaughter who were impecunious, didn't have wherewithal for even a single drop of water and food 2 times a week a luxury."

            I imagined their situation and was sickened only at the thought of what would happen if I was in her position. Moron took deep breath, drank a glass of water and continued with the story.

          " One day her grandmother fell very ill. She was not able to speak and closing the distance between her and death asked her granddaughter Anica to complete her last wish which was to taste her exilir of life that is water, but inside her heart she knew she didn't have enough time in her hands to last even a single night. But, Anica went to ask people for help but nobody was ready to help her because water cost was too much and people feared that if they help Anica they would not have money for their needs but they don't know that very thing would bring storm in their life."

          "Anica went to the magical pond and found that the palisade was high but she managed to get past that and brought a glass of water to her house. She was badly injured. She heard rustling of leaves so she peeped from her door to see that nobody watched her bringing water. Without any more hesitation she gave that glass of water to her grandmother even if her throat was dry and wanted to drink badly. There was a knock at door. She hurried and opened the door and was shocked to see what lay in front of her door".