Sunday, July 26, 2009 @3:45 PM
Draft 2 : Introduction
The clouds formed a big cauliflower; the forest looks like it was wearing an ominous cap of cloud. Loud thunder boomed in the distance, lightning cracked. Suddenly, the storm was on them. Surya and Kumar were all soak and exhausted from the climb. There was an explosion of light and head-numbing noise, Kumar started counting the lightning strikes to distract his mind from the cold, pain and terror.
The second storm exploded on them in a chaos of wind, water and noise. Spray started seeping in and both of them would soon be saturate. They were in the forest covered with rainforest trees. Then, there was an earsplitting crack; the air was filled with screams, some by the boys, and some from the villages. The lightning strike and then blackness followed by a distant thunder.
Finally, it settled down, but there was a time of ten minutes that there was only rain. Surya was shivering badly and drops of sweat were dripping down by both side of his face. Kumar gave the face of flustered look to his brother and Surya gave him his.
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