Love and the Dark Night

PART THREE, SEVEN

I steadied my quick breathing.

Inhale deeply, Ravi. Hold your breath. Now deeply exhale.

My hand pressed the key tighter between the forefinger and thumb.

With as less noise as possible I inserted the key, and with as steady as my hand could be, I turned it inside the lock. With a gentle click, the door released. A slice of breeze, cold and chilly touched my entire body. And no sooner it did, than it was gone. My hand pushed the door further. A faint light fell on the bedroom through the frosted glass of the closed window. I stepped in and opened the window when heaviness spread in my entire head and reached down my neck and rested till my shoulders. Streaks of silver light rushed in from all sides and exploded at the top of my head. Very soon more lights rushed, some blue, others ora