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Chapter 10 - The laugh

(Many bats fly out of the house.)

Hena: "When we first arrived here, there was nothing like this."

Sufiya: "That's because you were in the real world back then."

Hena: "Ah, right."

Aayan: "Come on, let's go inside."

(Just then, a trapdoor opens beneath them, and Hena and Arya fall through it.)

Aayan: "Hena...!"

Zohan: "Arya...!"

Sufiya: "The book must be right here; we have to find it—only then will we find the two of them."

Zohan: "Alright, let's hurry!"

Aayan: "Yeah."

(They move forward when suddenly a door swings open, and the sound of someone laughing echoes from within.)

Aayan: "Who's there?"

Zohan: "Sufiya, where did you go?"

Zohan and Aayan (in unison): "Sufiya...! Sufiya...!"

Aayan: "Where did she vanish to? What do we do now?"

Zohan: "Let's keep moving forward."

(They push the door to the room wide open and step inside—and just then...)

Zohan: "Sufiya, how are you here? Weren't you with us just a moment ago?"

Sufiya: "Who said I was with you? I am with my Master. The Master ordered me to bring you here, so here I've brought you."

Zohan: "Sufiya, how could you do this to us?"

Aayan: "You... You aren't Sufiya."

Sufiya: "No, I *am* Sufiya—it's just that my soul belongs to the Master. So, whatever the Master commands, I shall do."

Zohan: "How is that even possible?"

Aayan: "Forget all that for a moment—first, tell us: where is Hena?"

Zohan: "Bro, why are you only thinking about yourself? Sufiya, tell us first: where is Arya?"

Aayan: "Yes! Where are the two of them? Tell us, now!" Sufiya: "I know everything about you guys."

Aayan: "Meaning? I don't understand..."

Sufiya: "Do you really think they'll ever like you back? If they find out what you guys did, they won't even speak to you."

Zohan: "You don't need to tell us all that; we already know."

Aayan: "That is precisely why we are trying to win their hearts."

Sufiya: "It's no use; they will never like you."

Zohan: "Forget all that—just tell us, where are the two of them?"

Sufiya: "You'll have to find them yourselves."

Aayan: "But how?"

(Just then, the sound of Arya and Hena screaming is heard.)

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