The Rampant_Beauty's Rambles

  “Hurry up, Radhya!” Nishadhi’s impatient call made me snap out of my reverie. Her impatience was completely fair; I was stalling us both, and we had thousands of steps more to climb. We were still at the Dragon arch, which was located way beneath our destination, Adam's Peak. It was a pleasant April morning, with the sun being wonderfully lenient to not scorch us. The trek so far was simply enthralling. I got easily distracted by the magical glow of nature surrounding us. The trees were beaming at me, generously drizzling me with their green glimmer.  “Oh, I drifted again, sorry” I gave an awkward smile to my best friend, Nishadhi, who was waiting for me impatiently a few feet ahead. It wasn’t my nature to get lost in my thoughts, but weirdly enough, that’s all I had been doing ever since we set afoot from Nallathanniya a couple of hours ago. We dreamt of this trip ever since we were kids. We became best friends when we were just twelve years old, on the brink of entering ou...