Nature's Comeback

3D-🍀 Earth Repays Care🍀

All the chits except the green one were read. None of them made sense to the Reyansh yet he kept on looking for more, hoping that something logical would come out.

He was just about to read the translated version, when the building shook, making his chair roll off and collide with the wall.

"Ow." He rubbed the back of head, as it hurt.

The earthquake had hit again. It only lasted for two seconds but the team leader knew what all disasters it may have brought.

He called the other team leaders to see if all was okay in their respective floors, forgetting all about the last chit. The screen was still on showing the translated version of the green chit:

Earth Repays the care it receives.

Fortunately the building was still going strong. Damage was almost nil except for the few broken test tubes and glasses.

Suddenly his door was knocked and a disheveled peon came inside. "Sir, have you seen a six year old child around here? His name is Ayaan," He asked urgently.

Reyansh had relaxed too early. How foolish he was to think that there wouldn't be any problem.

"What happened? Have you asked Rewa? All of them were together," He asked, as all the children had run together from his office.

"They were together but then they got separated while searching for another colourful book that contained more information than the one in their hand. They felt that the first book was only a summarized version. Few of them had also come to me to ask...," the peon rambled off going off topic.

The team leader shook his head at the peon, and left his cabin to get proper information from the children.

Each kid except Ayaan stood in a straight line with their heads bowed with guilt, especially the elder ones.

"He was with us but then he wasn't...," Rewa said in a low guilty voice.

She was their unofficial team leader. It was her responsibility to take care of everybody.

"Don't worry. I will tell everyone in the building to look for Ayaan. In the meantime, stay in one single group," Reyansh assured, before moving towards his colleagues.

"Where is Payal?" He questioned, looking for Ayaan's mother.

"She was trying to go outside to look for Ayaan. We barely stopped her. But she is still roaming around the entrance," Kriti, the youngest researcher answered.

"Oh! Ayaan," Dhruv, an eight year old, shouted with happiness as he saw Ayaan coming in with his mother, father and another small guy.

"Where was he?" Reyansh asked, after heaving a sigh of relief.

"He saw his father and brother on the other side of the road and ran to meet them halfway," Payal answered, her eyes still worried about what might have happened.

"How can he just run outside? Especially when the earthquake hit. Do you even realise what could have happened?" Payal questioned out loud to no one in particular, while looking at her son laughing happily with no care of what he had done.