Night Walk

People make me so tired sometimes. So, it was a real wonder when I was walking back alone to my room from 'work' at 2 at night(don't ask me why....it's a long story), when the silence was broken by a sudden rushing sound. For a moment I stood still in the darkness trying to fathom where the sound was coming from. Let me tell you, my friends, I am a city-bred girl who's scared of everything from the slightest unexplained noise to the pitch darkness through which I was walking that night. So it was with a lot of hesitation that I stopped to find out what the noise was. When I figured it must simply be the wind making its way through the heavy canopy of the bamboo plants, I was a tad bit relieved. But no sooner had I started retracing my steps did some other noise reach my ears. This time, it was a distinctly different sound and I could not, for my life, figure out what it was. I hastened my steps and the sound seemed to follow me. A million shadows seem to follow me as I made my way.
I don't believe in 'ghosts' mind you and it never occurred to me to think in those lines. It was not even a figment of my tired mind's imagination. It was a noise I don't hear when I am in the city.

Till date, I have not been able to figure out what that noise was. I hear a different one every night, though. All I know is that it was the voice of the vociferous Nature. A voice which only few can hear, when the night falls and when people are in deep slumber.