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said firmly. "Drop your weapon."
      Mark glanced at Karthik's trembling hand. He soon realized that Karthik was holding the gun for the first time. He slowly started hoisting his gun. Karthik warned him, but he did not listen, and then Karthik pressed the trigger.
      Piper was now bored of staring at the two men, playing poker and quarreling with each other. They sometimes glance at her, greedily and sometimes touched her as they checked the ropes tied around her arms and legs. She was now completely exasperated by their obnoxious acts.
      She really wanted to get away from these people. She was missing her home, her work, her friends... Karthik.
      Karthik! He knows that she had been kidnapped. Maybe he will bring help.                             
      Maybe police or military. But why haven't he—
      She heard some kind of soft noises. She looked up and saw both men’s heads were now resting on the table, blood oozing out from their hairy scalps.
      Behind them, a woman dressed in black clothes was holding long barrel guns in her both hands. She tucked one in her belt and hurried toward Piper.
      She pulled out the Swiss-knife and started cutting the ropes around Piper's hands and legs.
      "I'm Lilly. I'm here to rescue you," Lilly whispered.
      "What about my file?" Piper asked, stroking her sore wrists.
      Lilly ignored her. She hurried to the door. She stopped when she realized that Piper was not following her. "Come on...let's go," She said.
      Piper crossed her arms in front of her chest. "What about my file?"
      "Listen, we are surrounded by dangerous people. So, hustle up." Lilly insisted.
      Piper sighed and followed her.
      Lilly scooted to the door and pulled it open, and saw a man outside with a confused expression on his face, staring back at them.
     

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      The man's eyes darted from Lilly to Piper.  A drop of sweat slid down his forehead. He moved his hands back to pull  out a gun, but before he could gauge the situation, Lilly kicked him in his abdomen.
      The man let out a painful moan and stumbled back untucking his gun. Lilly ducked and moved behind him, sliding her cord onto his neck. She twisted the cord and started choking him.
      In the struggle to break free, the man squirmed and wriggled his body, his gun dropped on the floor.
    The man sank to the floor, gasping for breath, struggling to break free. Lilly sat behind him, her teeth clenched.
    The man tried to reach for the gun, with his trembling hand. Lilly stared at Piper; a surge of building mutual understanding between them, Piper scooted to the gun and kicked it away from the Man's reach.
      The guy wriggled for a few more seconds, whimpering, and suddenly stopped moving.  He silently lay on the floor, dead.
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      "Oh-Oh god! I killed a man." Karthik murmured. He was kneeling beside the body of the man whom he had just shot.
      Karthik's chin trembled. He squarely stared at the dead body. "I killed a man. I killed a man." He repeated, miserably. Soon it became a chant. " I killed a-a man. I killed a man. I killed a man!" The forest was now holding a foreboding aura. Powerful yet dark. 
      He had never imagined that he would ever kill a human. The thought of killing a living person would always give him a shudder. His mom had thought him to respect every living thing.
      The moonlight shimmered around him, as the clouds rolled away from the moon.
      He stopped chanting when he sensed someone's presence. Someone in front of him. He slowly raised his eyes from the dead body, and saw a big dog panting, and glaring at him.
      Karthik slowly climbed to his feet, avoiding any sudden movements.
      "Good doggy..." He whispered, and slowly started backing up, to the car.
      The dog lowered his head and growled, Staring warily at Karthik's each and every move.
      Karthik stopped moving, as his back hit the car. Without turning, his hand groped for the car's doorknob. He grabbed the knob,