Its strange how fast the fan rotates and it never falls off. And I can see through the rotating blade, the ceiling has lost the shine of its white colour. There are hints of recently removed spider webs on the ceiling.
The CFL bulb in the room removes the difference between day and night, its always glowing, its always the same. To remove the confusion, I look at my mobile, its 12.40 am. Its raining outside and the sound of rain outside and rotating fan inside is mixing up. Its not disturbing, its soothing.
The walls are light yellow and the room is small. The mosquito net on the other bed is swaying.The blue curtains are also swaying.
There is a hole in the wall. some big black ants are concentrated around it. They are all static. There is another line of smaller black ants running across the wall from floor to ceiling and disappearing into the ventilator. They just keep on following each other, one after another in a queue. Its monotonous, its repetitive. But I keep watching them. Those tiny bodies moving so fast, those tinier slender legs floating over the wall. The line of ants seems to stretch to infinity. The individual ants cease to exist, a dark line instead takes place of the queue.
The dark line breaks up in between. The smaller ants are in a disarray. A big ant has broken this line. The smaller ants are attacking this big ant. So many smaller ants are biting this big ant. But this big ant calls for help. Soon, from the hole of the wall, a number of big ants start swarming out. And there is a mayhem. Big ants break hell over smaller ants, they bit them and cut them into pieces. The severed bodies of smaller ants are falling on the floor.
One lizard is keenly lurking around the falling ants on the floor. It is interested in this free meal. It throws out his long tongue and sucks in one of the severed body. This makes other ant bodies run away towards the door. Some ants have only the upper half, others the lower half and they are dragging themselves away towards the door. The lizard is angry. It growls and fans out its ears. It raises its body on all four legs and swings its tongue out in the air. It moves towards the door and suddenly stops in horror.
A snake head appears beneath the door. It moves its body inside the room from below the door space. All the severed ant bodies are struck to the snakes body as it makes its way into the room. The lizard tries to stop the movement of snake by raising its front legs one by one and making growling noises. The snake raises its head and in one strike the lizard is gone into its long unending slimy body.
The size of the snake starts to increase. It is thicker and longer. It sees me on the bed lying terrified. Its body raises as a spring coil. The big thick sticky shiny curvatures one above others raising it to the ceiling height. The severed bodies of ants sticking to its body are also larger now. The fan blows those ants around the snake like a garland. The snake raises its head once again. I am paralyzed in fear. The big mouth of the snake opens and it strikes me.
I am shaking. Its wet, hot and dark inside the snake.
Its power cut. I am sweating.
