Third person POV

"Brothels are not uncommon in India".
They exist all around us just masked as normal buildings. It can be beside your house or 4 lanes down. They exist because of some people and yet those who work there are socially shamed. Females and males both are found working there, albeit the females are more in number.
From girls who have just entered their pubescent lives to females who are way past their menopause stay in brothels. No one likes to be used as animals. They don't go there willingly.
No. They are sold,kidnapped and betrayed by known and unknown both.
Some women escape,some succumb and a very few nurture hatred and turn to the same thing that they once wanted escape. Yes,they turn prostitution into their business and become so vile that, all ounce of humanity is lost. They are frozen and to thaw their heart is impossible.
Once such person was Eira Vajra.
She ruled the underworld. From drugs to politicians,everything was under her thumb. Cross her once and she'll kill you twice.

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"Sukoon". 'Sukoon' was a fading yellow coloured building,in the deep lanes of charminar. Charminar, from the ittar shops to hot jalebi stalls to pearl and coral stores everything about it was home to Hyderabadi's.
But each place has its own dark side.
" Sukoon" was charminars dark side. (A/N: I made this up. I am not guaranteeing such a brothel or any brothel exists in Charminar). It was a brothel and one couldn't imagine such a building in a place like those azan sounding lanes.
Ironically, sukoon(peace) never existed inside the walls of the brothel. There were tormented cries of females and sadistic, lust filled sounds of men.
The ladies live. They just live because they have no other choice. A few of courage, convince themselves to live a life of torment until there time of torture is over and men no longer lust for them. Some grow families inside those walls and try to find happiness in that very life.
Eira Vajra was the owner of that disguised hell. Not just that one but many more. Sukoon,Upasna(devotion)and Aashrey(Shelter),they were the places where majority of Eira's dealings took place.

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A call sounded through the rickety reception hall of Sukoon and there was a frenzy of all the residents running around, cleaning themselves and trying to make the place look spick and span.
Sudha,the manager of the place and second in-charge to Eira rounded up all the workers and lined them up to welcome their boss. To the residents, it was not a very common occurrence , that their boss visited them during work hours.
The doors opened and there was just the soft patter of flats and the subdued breaths of people. Heads in submission,hands in front and uncertainty in eyes, the sex workers waited for Eira to enter. She commanded power.It was obvious even to the dumb.
Eira knew the misplaced with just one glance and so did her very dear assistant Shiv. Shiv was an observant teen. His only job was to look after his bosses needs and be her eyes and ears. Those grey eyes of 16 summers had seen horrors that others could only imagine. He observed,observed everything with keen eyes filled with empathy for those trembling figures in saree's and high slit dresses. Somewhere in the corner of his heart he wanted this to stop but he didn't have a choice. Neither then, nor now.

He came out of reverie when he heard cries and pleas of a girl just of his age. She was holding Eira's feet begging for forgiveness but alas forgiveness didn't exist in this world. Vaishali was her name. They both had been bought from the same place and it didn't take long for friendship to bloom in their short period of interaction. Both Vaishali and Shiv wished to leave this life but they were bound. Shiv because of his loyalty towards the one who gave him food and Vaishali because she wanted the one who bought her to life to live. A belt cut through the air and landed on soft, brown skin of the girl. One,two,three.....and many more times. Unknowingly Shiv clenched his fists, wanting to share her pain and not willing to see her skin break and bleed but he couldn't and it was all because he was the Eyes of the Ice lady.

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Hello. How are you guys? I vanished and poof! I'm miraculously here today with an update for you amazing guys. Do tell me what you thought about this update and your thoughts on new characters. Do you guys want more description about these characters or are they okay? Also I'll be going back to Aagneya's part in the next chapter. This is set before Aagi got raped(Hope it wasn't a spoiler for those who didn't read the previous chapters. Moral: don't skip the chapters cause the author writes irritatingly long A/N and gives spoilers).

Eira in Hindi means Ice. Vajra means a rare precious stone.

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