Chapter 21

Gauravi's POV

I wanted to go and look around, and explore the place a bit more. Everyone had left for the shopping and I sneaked out of my room to roam around. They had given us a supervised and controlled stroll accompanied by Arun and some locals. But somehow, I felt that there was more of it that I missed. So it was the perfect time to explore it.

I wanted to see the whole site again, the ruined temples, the city, and the forest behind our hotel. It seemed that they had scrubbed the area they showed us with disinfectant every night and hygienically cling-wrapped for the next group. I wanted to see the real thing.

We had to leave from there in three hours, three hours.

I could sneak out and have a look at those ruins that I had glimpsed from the top of the temple yesterday. Arun told us that there was nothing worth seeing there as that site had not been excavated yet. He told us not to go anywhere unescorted. But today, since everyone is gone, I