In his Territory

I had the whole day to myself, my friend had errands to run and I had work, which I managed to finish in one sitting thanks to this place. Its amazing what a place can do to you, I imagine living and working in a place like this, where your creative juices just flow, Not that im creative but whatever I do involves a lil bit of it :-P but then again, reality strikes.. its just not that easy as you think. What my friend is doing needs a lot of will n raw guts. I admire her for what she is and what she wants to do.

Antony was around to have a conversation and he made some awesome potato maggi which I relished, after which he left. I was all alone now and time does stop still out here. I enjoy my space but it does get lonely sometimes. I loitered around the house, read for a while, and finally decided to take a walk and explore. The cottage is quite aloof from the main gate of the estate and no one enters the estate other than a couple of people who work for the owner. Curious to find the source of the waterfall I could hear at a distance, I walked towards the sound and found " Kalhatty falls", though just a trickle now, coz of the lack of rains this year, It must be quite a spectacle to watch when the waters full.

I strolled a little further when it started drizzling and all of a sudden It was misty all over, I was surrounded by a foggy blanket and the whole place looked surreal. Vasu had told me bout these crazy changes in weather here and to me this place seemed enchanted. I could see the mist rise from the valley below up to to me and go all the way up to the Hunting Lodge. The mountain range was quickly engulfed in white and I started to head up. I could hear a swishing sound as I neared the cottage and as I looked up to see, I stood still. It was the tusker, Sadhu at the top of the hillock just behind the house. He stood tall, feasting on the tall grass, the swishing sound was his trunk ripping grass off the ground as it it were strands of hair. My joy knew no bounds but I was nervous too. I knew I had to be quite, so I walked towards the cottage and towards Sadhu, at one curve I was face to face to the handsome fellow and I could not but stand still and look at him in awe. I was cautious not to intrude as he went bout doing what he was.. feasting. I had met the alpha male in the flesh and I was ecstatic. He looked at me once, disinterestedly... and I felt small, like a negligible part of his land. An outsider in his territory.