CURSED ROAD - Part 2

The footprints were moving backwards. They were not going into the temple, they were coming out of it.

I turned my torch on. It started working again. But the light was red now, not white.

In front of me, the ruined Shiva temple was open. I thought it was closed for 364 days. But the doors were open.

Inside, I saw many people sitting with their eyes closed. They were not praying. They were all looking at me. And my uncle was sitting in the first row.

He said, "Why did you come today? Today is not Shivaratri."

I checked my phone. The date was showing one day before Shivaratri. I came on the wrong day. The day the forest wakes up.