That was all we could think of when Rella finally ended her bridge stories!

We all felt that we were simply too lucky! To the extent that it was too good to be true!

And we were right...

The curator appeared on the bridge suddenly and exclaimed, "Why are you girls still with her? I had been trying so hard to separate her from all of you!"

"So he was the one who tried to sabotage us?"

"Why?"

As if he could read our minds, he told us the reason.

"Read the instructions behind."

"If the trail is followed faithfully, thou shall be unharmed. But if thou shall choose the easy way out, the consequences shall be faced".

Those were the words in fine print written at the back of the activity list. We did not notice it at first, but it was obviously there. We realised now why he kept urging us to read the instructions carefully when we had gotten the list from him.

The curator then explained, "Back then, when i too had to undertake this heritage trail, my group saw the fine print, and we were spared as we did everything ourselves. Unfortunately, other group was not so lucky. They ignored the instructions despite multiple warnings from us."

"So what happened?"

"That I do not know. I did not hear from them after that. Nobody knew where they went, what had happened. It was like... They vanished! All I know is that the mastermind is your teacher. What a poor soul this lady is... She's being used and she does not even know... She's not supposed to exist..."

"This can't be true! How can it be?"

"But how can we explain the existence of Rella then?"

"How is it that she so happened to walk into our shot?"

At this point of time, Rella could not take it any further. She tried to make sense of what's going on, but... She could not! Someone said that she did not exist. But how could it be? When she's obviously standing here! ALIVE!