A Unfinished Tale

A girl was waiting for a taxi outside the airport. Her name is Isha. Due to the late night and the journey, she was exhausted, and now it was raining too.
A taxi comes and stops after a short while. Isha runs towards the taxi. She had to apply a lot of force to open the taxi's door. Isha was completely drenched.
Isha then gave her address to the taxi driver. When Isha looked at the driver, he had a scarf tied around his face, and his eyes were quite strange. Isha didn't pay much attention to it then.
Then the taxi driver handed Isha a towel.
Isha: Thanks.
Driver: No problem, ma'am.
Isha notices that the taxi driver was a bit nervous and lost in some thought.
Isha: Driver............ no response, ........... Driver.
Driver: Yes, ma'am.
Isha: Where are you lost, brother? It's such a long journey, let's just talk a bit.
The driver suddenly looks at Isha through the rearview mirror.
Driver: Ma'am, should I tell you a story about a king?
Isha: Yes, why not.
Driver: This is a matter from several thousand years ago. A king, after winning a war, was returning to his kingdom with his soldiers. While returning, he met a stranger on the way. When the king asked him, "Who are you?" that man asked the king in a very loud voice, "O King, did you win?"
The king did not like him talking in such a loud tone. The king spoke with anger:– "Yes, I won!"
Stranger: "No King, it is your foolishness to think that you won. You have already been defeated; now your life force is just waiting to leave your body."
The king could not tolerate this insult. Right then and there, the king cut off that man's head with his sword.
The king returned to his kingdom, but in his mind, the anger of his insult was greater than the joy of winning the war. That night, when the king was in a deep sleep, he had a very strange dream.
In the dream, the king was standing near a giant door. He tried to open that door, but he couldn't. Taking a few steps back, he tried again. This time his attempt was successful. After the door opened, the king saw that unknown man, then witnessed the death of each member of his family, and heard some strange words that he couldn't understand.
Seeing all this, the king woke up with a start. Knowing that it was just a dream, the king breathed a sigh of relief.
The next morning, the king's wife died without any reason. He hadn't even recovered from this shock when, by evening, his mother also passed away. The doctors and physicians could not find any cause for these deaths.
The king remembered that dream, so he went to the kingdom's priest. He told him about his dream. The priest thought for a while and then said:– "Listening to your words, it seems that this is the effect of some evil power."
King: "Then what is the solution for this?"
Priest: "There is only one solution: make someone else wear your clothes and narrate the entire ordeal you went through to them, but that person must listen to your words of their own free will."
Hearing this, the king sank into deep thought.
The next day, the king summoned a prisoner. He gave him his clothes to wear and told him, "I will release you, but in return, you will have to listen to everything I say." The prisoner agreed. Then the king told him about his dream and the unexplainable deaths in his family. After that, the king released the prisoner.
That same evening, the king was missing from the palace...............
Isha: Driver, where did the king go?
The driver stopped the car and said:– "Ma'am, your address has arrived."
Isha gave the money to the driver right there in the taxi and went into her house. Seeing Isha, everyone in her family was very happy, but Isha was still thinking only about that story.
The next morning, when Isha woke up, she found out about her father's death. Even the doctors could not find the cause of his death. Isha was completely broken from the inside.
When Isha's father's body was taken for its final journey, her mother suddenly collapsed to the ground. She was taken to the hospital, but she was already dead before reaching it.
After all this happened, Isha started crying loudly in the hospital. Seeing her cry, a crowd gathered there. In that very crowd, Isha saw that taxi driver sitting on a distant bench. Isha remembered the story that the taxi driver had told her. Isha went towards the taxi driver, but he disappeared.
After coming home, Isha locked herself in her room. Isha's gaze went towards a corner of the room, and she saw that the taxi driver was standing there in the dark.
Isha asked while crying:– "Why are you doing this to me? What harm have I done to you?"
Driver: "The story is not complete yet."
Isha: "Finish the story then!"
Driver: "Only you can finish the story. Think!"
Saying this, the driver vanished.
Isha recalled that story from the beginning. She remembered the words spoken by the priest.
The next day, Isha gives her childhood clothes to an orphan girl and asks her if she would listen to a story. And the girl says, "Yes sister, tell me."
Hearing this, tears start flowing from Isha's eyes. Then Isha tells her the whole story. That girl also asks the exact same question at the end, "What happened to the King...?"
Isha comes back to her house without saying anything.
Upon coming home, Isha goes to her room. She sees that taxi driver again, and he says:– "To save your own life, you put someone else's life in danger."
The driver laughed softly.
Driver: "You had asked, right, what happened to the king? The king had gone outside the kingdom that evening. When the soldiers searched for the king in the palace, they found a corpse. That corpse belonged to the priest. The soldiers then searched the entire kingdom but they couldn't find the king. However, the corpse of a prisoner was found. When they finally went outside the kingdom, they found the king. Sitting on a rock, his head was severed and placed in his lap."
Hearing this, Isha was terrified. Her feet were drenched in sweat. Isha's vision blurred.
Then, the driver cut off Isha's head with a sword....