WARNING: It contains violence. Reader's discretion advised***
As Rohan was trying to dig up some more footage, he found a certain one that showed Sharmishtha on the roof. She was roaming around the roof after placing three different night vision cameras. One showed roof, one showed downwards from the roof and another one showed edges and around. She was standing there for quite a while. Suddenly Rohan remembered something, 'Bodycam! Yes! Boss had two secret cameras on her! One of them was a Bodycam! That would make it easier for us to find her!'
Rohan quickly moved to the place that seemed like an office. Sharmishtha had specially set it up herself. There were three screens that would make it more convenient for Rohan to find the trails. It took him two minutes to set everything up and he dug up footage of Sharmishtha.
One camera was walking down, this was Sharmishtha; Rohan thought. Suddenly the camera halted as and then Sharmishtha ran. Rohan understood that she was coming down the roof but what caused her to run was still a mystery. The wiretaps which Arjun set up was of no use since someone cut off the connection but Sharmishtha did implant small sound picking wireless microphones at night. Rohan put on the headphone as he set up the transmitters and waited if he could hear anything. Meanwhile, the footage still showed Sharmishtha running, halting, taking a breath, hiding in the corner and then meeting up with Arjun. The most problematic fact about this footage was that it was taken with bodycam yet Rohan couldn't understand why she was behaving like that. Suddenly Rohan remembered the hanging body he encountered in the mansion. 'Was it truly haunted?'
There were a total of 12 pieces of footage running on three screens. One of them was the bodycam on Sharmishtha while three were the roof cameras, two were focusing on the two different gardens (front and back), one showed the north wing corridor, one showed south wing corridor, one showed the east wing corridor and another showed the west wing corridor. Meanwhile, two footages were completely black for some reason. 'Maybe they were destroyed' Rohan thought. As he was trying to figure out the links between different footages, one of the microphones started transmitting sound waves. First, some footsteps possibly walking down the stairs, the sound suddenly changed into the sound of someone running and panting, catching up breath, creaky door noise, some faint footsteps on the side and finally Arjun's voice. 'Uh! so this mic is on Boss herself...that makes it easier for me', Rohan thought. He listened in on Arjun and Sharmishtha's conversation. 'Wait so that's what happened. Hmm, I just need to dig up some footage on the south wing corridor then. Unfortunately, no camera on the staircase!' Rohan sighed. As he looked up the footage of the south wing, he found out that Arjun wasn't hallucinating at all. There was indeed someone after whom Arjun had tried to follow but failed. But Rohan wasn't sure who it was since all the cameras were showing night vision footage that had very little light. The south wing corridor was pitch dark even night vision cameras weren't working well, only due to Arjun's torch Rohan could see a figure running in front of Arjun. 'But it can't be a ghost right?' Things were too complicated. Even though Sharmishtha claimed someone was following her, Rohan didn't see anything.
Rohan picked up the headphone again and tried to match it up with the footage of Sharmishtha. He could hear the faint screaming that caused Arjun and Sharmishtha to run. When he heard, "They need to leave," from Sharmishtha's mouth, he felt an uneasy feeling going down his heart. It was more than five hours now yet they had no idea where these two were. By Sharmishtha's voice, it was clear that she anticipated danger and got them out safely beforehand.
He could see and hear everything that was going around Sharmishtha. After he saw three of them leaving, he straightened his position on his seat. It was now time to see what happened after they left. A faint noise of some entering, the camera turned around, there was no one on the door. Rohan gulped..it had scared Sharmishtha as well because he could pick her faint yet fast heartbeats. The camera was walking towards the door. Rohan had a very unapproving look on his face. 'Is Boss crazy? Stop it, Boss! Don't go there!'
The camera slowly walked out of the room and found no one. The sound of Sharmishtha's constant panting made Rohan anxious as well. Apparently, there was something, Rohan couldn't hear or see that was making Sharmishtha constantly anxious. 'What is it?'
Suddenly the camera starts running. Rohan seemed utterly confused as according to the footage, she was constantly running, crying, panting and was trying to hide in corners. 'Who is she afraid of? What's happening? The other footages showed nothing as well.'
Suddenly, Rohan picked up another voice. It was coarse and deep. "Hi, we have been waiting for you a long time." A chill went down Rohan's spine. Since her bodycam wasn't showing anything then it meant that the stranger was behind her and was really close. Rohan's anxiousness was growing. He gulped again. His throat went dry. The camera looked around and a splash of blood! The stranger attacked Boss! Rohan gasped as his eyes widened in horror. It took him some time to realise that it was his Boss who attacked the stranger. "Ah! you really chose to fight? I am not alone you know!"
Several other people showed up on the north wing corridor footage. As she was struggling to fight the two men who held her and another person was just standing in front of her. Rohan's mind was flooded with horrifying thoughts. 'What are they planning to do? No! Please no!' His eyes almost welled up. As the figure came closer, Rohan realised that it was a woman.
She cupped her face angrily and said, "What a pretty face! Let me carve it up for you!" A straight punch on her face. Blood splashed out of her mouth. The woman pulled out a knife. "Seems like you are seeing things! Let me help you unsee it." The knife went for the eye when Sharmishtha pulled one of the men holding her in front and the knife went straight through his throat.
"How dare you do that?" her voice stiffened. "I would make sure that you don't have that smirk. Set her free. I want to see how much she can suffer!"
The other man set her free and she went straight for the woman. Sharmishtha tried to dodge some of the moves yet got almost stabbed across her face. She took off her shawl to prevent getting stabbed. Even though she was fighting well with moving fast and constantly using all her limbs yet Rohan felt that her clothing was restricting her movements a lot. He held his breath as he watched the ongoing fight. She escaped two stabs by looping the cloth around the knife. As she tried to take away the knife, the woman suddenly grabbed her hand and pulled her close. But, Sharmishtha got the knife in her hands and got stabbed from the back at the same time. It didn't go too deep as she could still move. "Don't worry I won't let you die too quickly," said the woman as she sliced Sharmishtha skin with faint cuts on several places like the neck, arm, hand, face. The coat was already torn in the fight so it didn't do much to help her. As the woman reached for her chest, Sharmishtha grabbed her and stabbed her right through her chest. The man who was watching it all until then suddenly grabbed her from behind and made her smell something that had smoke coming out of it. Rohan could see the smoke in the footage lightly as the man lit up a torch.
"Uh! It's hindering my senses. Uh...I can't find the direction", she cried out. Her voice was picked up creakily with the damaged mic. Fortunately, the bodycam wasn't damaged as much but it had blood splashed all over. "Leave you are the only target," the man warned. Rohan couldn't see anything, the footage of the north wing corridor was cut off. There was still a little bit of floor visible to the bodycam which indicated she was walking with her back crouched. Suddenly a hand was seen grabbing the bodycam and it landed on the floor. "Useless!" She was directly visible to the camera on the floor. Rohan could now see her miserable state more clearly. Her clothes were half torn, half bloody, she had cuts all over her face and body and a stab in the back, she was walking limply as she tied up her shawl around the wound to lessen the risk of blood loss. Her horrible state made Rohan shiver. Suddenly, he picked up a faint voice of Arjun screaming Sharmishtha's name. Rohan's face lit up a bit. He didn't want to watch her suffer anymore. Little did he know about the horror show that awaited him.