Aura Bhattacharjee

Drama

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Aura Bhattacharjee

Drama

Garden With Underground Trains

Garden With Underground Trains

4 mins
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Once upon a time, in a land far, far away; lived two little girls Ria and Rai with their parents in a big house by the river.

During the afternoon, while their father would be off at work; and their mother would be sleeping after lunch, the two sisters would venture out into the garden in front of their house to play and explore.

There were different kinds of trees: Mangoes, coconut, palms; and even a wide variety of shorter plants and bushes bearing flowers and berries sprawling across the garden, bordering the large rectangular pond on one side. They would hop around, tasting berries and nectar from the flowers; and listening to the chirping of birds, watching the fish glide in the pond.

One day, while playing in the garden; Ria saw a bright blue dragon-fly amidst the flowers. She started following it and ended up running till one end of the garden where her feet fell into soft soil. Since the house was close to the river, the soil in the garden was very soft. The part where Ria had reached, was also close to the pond; and hence the soil was even softer there. As she looked into her muddy feet, an idea did strike her.

"Rai! Rai !", she called her sister who was plucking berries on the other end of the garden.

"Yes, sister" Rai came running and said.

"Did you hear the other day our Father was telling our Mother, that he has started going to work by riding a new kind of train?" Ria asked, delighted.

"Yes! He said it was called 'Metro Rail', and that it ran underground!" Rai recalled.

"Hmm...I have always wondered how can there be such long rails under the earth!" Ria said.

"They must have found some soft soil and dug them to create train stations right under," Rai suggested.

"Yes, that's why....I'm thinking..let's dig this part of the garden and check if there's any Metro Rail underneath?" Ria added, pointing to her feet that was digging into the soft soil of the garden.

"Great idea!" Rai exclaimed, clapping; and rushed to get a hard twig lying amidst the bushes.


With great enthusiasm and a big smile, the two little girls started digging the soil.

The topmost soil was greenish-brown with mosses.

But as they kept digging, they started finding different layers.

First, the greenish hue went and the soil below started looking darker brown.

After digging some more, they found the soil was no softer and it started getting harder.

Still, some digging later, they started seeing some pebbles.


"How much more should we dig?" Rai asked.

"Let's keep going!" Ria said, "Don't you see? the soil has started getting harder! Looks like we are close to the roof of the Metro rail's station!"

And they kept digging with all energy.


"Ria! Rai! What are you both doing? " exclaimed their mother, as she spotted them digging the garden soil with full vigor, on waking up from her nap.

"Mother! we are digging the soil to find the underground Metro Rail that Father takes to go to work," they answered.

On hearing this their mother laughed, and said, "That's beautiful. But you both should come inside now as it is about to get dark."


"Yes Mother," Ria answered. And then whispered to Rai, " I think Mother doesn't believe this. She thinks we are being funny."

"I also think so, " Rai said, "we will bring her and show once we find the station. For now, let's go inside the house. We will continue tomorrow."


Throwing the twig away, as they both got up, they suddenly heard a low, shrill voice calling: "Hello Ria! Hello Rai!"

Surprised, the two sisters tried to find out where the voice was coming from.

"Here, look down," the voice said.

They both looked down and saw a tiny man, as tall as half their height, peeping out of the burrow they had dug. He was wearing funny bright red trousers, with a purple jacket on a white shirt, and a colorful hat.

"Are you not going to dig further? You will find the metro rail station." He said, "I heard all your conversations."

"Yes, we will! So there is really a railway underneath?" Ria asked.

"Yes! And we are the workers who keep working day and night to keep the railway clean, and manage the timings of the train," the man smiled and replied, " You are almost there. If you dig a little deeper, you will reach the roof of the station. There are small holes in the ceilings of the station through which we keep coming out to the outer world to get water and food."

"Sure! Nice to meet you! We will come back tomorrow to dig again. And play with you all. Till then, goodbye." said Ria and Rai.

"Bye, little girls. have a nice dinner and see you tomorrow," said the funny little man before hopping back into the burrow.

"We will tell Mother that we met a worker from the underground Metro Rail station today," Ria told Rai.

"Yes, maybe she will believe us then," said Rai, as the two sisters giggled and walked back into their house.


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