"There is nobody around. I was hallucinating", cried Aastha. It is the side effect of the medicines that I am compelled to take.

She took a glass of water and drank it after keeping the knife down on the slab. Suddenly, she was amazed by a voice -

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh! I was just drinking water”, she replied and laughed at her hallucinations.

"How can there be somebody at this time of the hour to ask me anything? "I must be hallucinating again", she thought. She played with her thoughts for some time and started humming a tune. After a while, Aastha turned around only to find...