Cry of Shadows - Chapter 3

                               Chapter 3

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Kerala, Gods own country, the First state to achieve a hundred percent literacy in India. Blessed land with natures gifts like backwaters, rivers and sea. God carved the land with the best tools and it plays a very important role in Indian history and the world.

Kerala is the first ever state in the world to have an elected communist government and many her kids are all over the world spreading her name and fame and writing it with golden letters in the history of human kind.

Housekeeping staff of Hotel Taj, Trivandrum (State capital of Kerala) is busy preparing a suite for a guest coming from France. It’s not a new thing for them. Kerala is a favorite tourist destination of people from all over the world. It’s Ayurveda, Yoga, Kalari, Kathakali has crossed its borders of the state and reached nook and corner of the world.

A Mahindra Scorpio SUV stopped in front of the hotel and two people got down from the car. The person who was driving the vehicle gave the key for valet parking and walked towards the hotel. In front of the vehicle it was written as Police, Kerala state. The gentle man who was driving the vehicle was in police uniform and walked towards the hotel. Other person wearing a spec was in his tshirt and jeans accompanied him.

"Is the suite ready" The officer asked in the reception.

"Yes sir"

"No one should be allowed to meet him with out my permission even if it is the head of the state, Hope that’s clear for you"

"Yes Sir, we do remember your instructions"

"Good"

"Dhanu, are we ready?" He asked the man besides him

"Yes, Bro"

"Good, he might have alighted in Bangalore by now and will reach Trivandrum airport by 7.30. Air France is supposed to reach Bangalore by 12.30 or 1.00 pm tonight"

"Oh, it should be hectic… He will definitely feel tired"

"Yes, he will be. But we don’t have time to waste. We need to do the ground work by then"

"Sure brother, by the way who is there to pick Jean"

"Ah, I forgot to tell you… Our Mathew had gone to the airport"

"Are your sure, Brother? I sincerely doubt if you have selected the right guy. Hope Jean will pick Mathew and reach here", Dhanu smiled at the officer.

"Haha… I know"

He went outside. Dhanu kept watching the officer whose name is Azad. What a human being, he thought. He is never tired, he has never heard Azad saying no, when it comes to work.

"You are a work – 'alcoholic' brother" Dhanu use to make fun of him.

He remembered the last meeting during which he explained about some critical operation. But he could never imagine a pure software guy could support him officially in an operation which involves several aspects which he never believed to exist.

How can a software person help a French Investigation officer, that question reverberated in Dhanu’s mind