Where to begin?

Funny realization hit both of them having only two feet from the solemn resolve they had undertaken, they did not know what, where and how to begin. “For someone as intelligent as he claimed to be, you’re not very bright.” Daksh couldn’t help but make a face despite the fact that this time it wasn’t Ananya who was mocking him, it was just a rush of mixed emotions of finding and being with her as quick as possible that was having this effect. At loss as he was, he turned to Popeye and said, “Dude, as much as I hate to say this, I don’t really know what to do!”. Popeye just laughed and said, “Don’t worry, this time I think I do.” So off they were, Popeye briefed to him the plan, he always found his calling in such detective type settings, he got this from following girls around. He seemed to have a pretty clear idea of how these lanes in L2, though straight looking, were designed in a way that no one could ever explore beyond a mile radius. But of course, Popeye had found a way! “If you notice these guard like people roaming around, you’ll see they are never the same. It’s like they are alternating their duties, but the point is none of them stays in our block, trust me dad has talked to each and every one of them and they all say that they live in different block, they name, umm.. what was it… arm… arma… Armageddon!!! Yes!!! Armageddon!!! Just like the movie, right? Not that the settings much different either… Anyway, let’s get back to the point. So these guards, who somehow think can fool us into thinking that they are on our side have an exit from this maze, but we don’t. But the problem is no one else seems to realize it. Come to think of it Dax… tell me one thing how did you get here? I mean were you here in this block all this while? That seems unlikely, because we’ve seen almost everyone in the weekly assemblies that are called in the behind the bar we went to. I’ve never seen anyone even remotely familiar there I’m pretty sure I would not have missed you. Where were you? Hiding?”

This question did ring a bell with Daksh, he had never attended any such assemblies. Leave that he had no interaction any human before that night. If what Popeye was saying were true, then how did he so easily get to a new part of the annexe without losing his way? Now aware of Popeye’s observation he looked around and realized, that he in fact had really not seen this place before, he had somehow tumbled into a new a area altogether. Lucky accident this was! But how did it happen?

“I seriously have no clue! All I remember is that I just got tired and walked out of my quarter, I had only walked a few steps when I saw you.” “So can you take me back to your quarter?” asked Popeye. “Well… there seems no reason why I can’t, lets go!”

They had almost walked for two hours now, they passed every landmark almost twice but no luck finding Daksh’s quarter. “Are you sure it was this way?” Popeye asked suspecting. “I was damn sure till about an hour ago! Now I don’t know if it is someone playing tricks with us. Shall we go back to the bar and see if we can find something there?” “I doubt we’ll get anything there, it was the first time both of us went there, in fact I wasn’t even aware it existed there before you pointed it out to me. But we’ve got to start somewhere… I don’t see why can’t we start there.” Having said that the two them started searching for that fateful bar yet again.