"But he's speeding up now. He's gonna be right under that avalanche now. What is this boy doing!", Anannya screamed in despair.

"Hold on. I know what to do.", shouted Sharma as he rushed down the hill-top to stop his son from being crushed under a sliding mass of snow and soil.

Sharma banged himself against the moving car with whatever force he could muster. The window glass shattered and Arvind slammed his breaks in panic. The vehicle spun out of control along the icy road.

"Anannya come down here. I cannot do this alone.", shouted Sharma to his wife.

It took the couple a pretty solid effort to curb the vehicle from going overboard and to reduce its momentum before crashing into that concrete barrier.

"Is he ok?", asked Anannya with look concern.

"Yeah yeah...he's fine. His head didn't hit anywhere. I made sure of that. Just some minor injuries.", Sharma assured his wife.

"He's just like you. Reckless.", she nudged her husband, but he was distracted by something else.

"Hey isn't this the exact same place where it all happened ?", asked Sharma. He wasn't sure.

"Oh. Damn right, it is. What a coincidence!", Anannya was astonished. It was at that exact same road, exact same spot that their car overturned twenty-four years ago. Ananya still remembered throwing her 3-year-old son out of the window as she thought the car was gonna fall of the edge of the road. When the fire burnt them alive, their biggest regret was that little Arvind had to watch it all, lying on the side of that road.

She looked at her son as he struggled to get out of the car. "Poor baby... I'm glad he forgot whatever he saw that day. Or else it would have wounded him for life. I hope this won't trigger any old memories back."

"Come on, let's go. He's coming out.", said Sharma as Arvind crawled out the car. "The avalanche is coming and our son is safe."

They had to leave. Interacting with the living, it was strictly against their rules.

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