Misc. Erotica The Nine Nights

[shailu4ever]

 
Story Title (working): “The Nine Nights”
(I might change the Title as the story progresses)




Backdrop:
Kerala. The morning after the Indian Ocean tsunami.

The coast that was once filled with tourists, laughter, and markets is now silent, waterlogged, littered with broken boats, and fragments of lives.

Relief teams are delayed because the tsunami pushed water deep into the backwaters, isolating smaller islands and cutting off roads.
 

 
Core Premise:
Two tourists - strangers -  are stranded together on a small backwater island after the tsunami.

Both have lost their families that day.
They survive together for several days, sharing food, grief, silence, and eventually an unspoken, fragile bond that helps them rediscover the will to live.

What begins as survival slowly becomes connection,  not passion in the ordinary sense, but something deeper: a rediscovery of humanity through shared loss. Their bond is unspoken yet undeniable, fragile as the morning mist, yet strong enough to carry them toward the possibility of life again.

 
 
Main Characters:

1. Naveen (38)

• A Doctor from Hyderabad
  
• Came to Kerala with his wife and two young daughters for a short vacation.
  
• Practical, quiet, deeply devoted to family — the kind of man who feels everything but says very little.
  
• After the wave, he wakes up injured and disoriented on a strip of land surrounded by water.
  

 

2. Kavya (19)

• A literature student from Pune.
  
• Was visiting Kerala with her parents and younger brother.
  
• Sensitive, resilient, emotionally open but in shock — she talks to fill the silence, and sometimes to hold back tears.
  
• She finds Naveen while searching for her family in the wreckage.
  
• Slowly, her youthful vulnerability and determination pull him out of his numbness.
  

 


Setting Detail:

They’re stranded on a small stretch of raised land surrounded by flooded backwaters and fallen coconut trees — about 2–3 km from the nearest inhabited area.

A broken boat lies half-buried nearby.
One half-ruined fisherman’s hut and an old banyan tree become their shelter.

They have access to:

• Coconut water, a few washed-up food packets.
  
• Rainwater they collect.
  
• Occasional floating debris that they reuse.
  

Rescue is delayed because:

• The connecting bridge collapsed.
  
• The backwater current is too strong for boats to navigate safely for several days.
  
• The area is misreported as fully submerged, so no early rescue teams are sent.