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Chapter 11
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"Up, higher!" she commanded.
Revati, not so subtly, expressed her displeasure in the form of a loud groan. She lowered her bruised hands from punching the stuffed dummy.
"You ought to get your ears checked by a healer. Are they not working?" she asked, with sarcasm dripping from every word. "I said punch HIGHER, not lower your hands in defeat!" She bellowed across the ground.
Revati snatched the dummy, spun around marched up to her, and dumped it onto her lap.
"Take it. Oh, was it too low? Should I dump it on you a little higher? Maybe on the head. Then the contents inside will come spilling out of the tear and then you'll realize what I've been ranting about for half an hour," she sassed placing hands on her hips.
"Five minutes." Her trainer corrected.
"A little dramatics never killed anybody, did it? Now, I can't very well punch this can I?"
"No," she simply answered after a glimpse at her exhausted, perspiring face.
"Then why were you asking me to punch it?"
"Ah..." she sighed. "Let me tell you a story. Once there lived a hermit and his student. The student too was told to attack a dummy. The student obediently, but aggressively, did. The dummy got torn. Now, when a dummy is torn, what should be done?"
"It should be patched up. In this case, it's too bad so it should be replaced,"
"Who is supposed to do that?"
"The stude- Oh..." She realized, her anger evaporating for a moment. Keyword being moment. "When you could've approached the tiger directly, why did you sneak up from behind?"
"So that I could teach the tiger a lesson."
"By wasting time?"
"No, by sneaking up behind it and taking it by surprise."
"Urgh, you're impossible!" she groaned.
"No, I'm possible." Suruchi countered with a grin.
The princess stomped away angrily to the storehouse to replace the dummy. Suruchi chuckled, The girl can lose all her wits when she's fired up. But can teach the greatest scholar a thing or two when she's at peace.
She turned her focus back to her student and bellowed once more, "Up and higher, Princess!"
Revati turned, and smiled, not sarcastically (!?) -
Ah, she must have realized.
- and went back to punching.
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"Welcome, children!" the awestruck kids turned at the princess's voice and squealed a string of 'thank you's into her skirts. Revati picked the littlest one among them up and placed him on her hip. "Come on. Let me give you a tour of the castle."
One of them whispered to her, "I have always wanted to be a princess. You are a real princess, will you teach me how to be one?"
"Of course. I'll tell you all about it. How you should dress up, how you should eat, how you should greet someone. And how to be a princess!" she whispered back, winking at her.
The little girl giggled shyly and turned to her siblings. Something tugged at her skirts and she looked down at the little toddler covered in dirt and leaves. Revati bent down to his level and ruffled his hair. "Looks like someone found the garden's leaf dump. Go on, go get yourself cleaned up. You can't go around with an empty stomach can you?"
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✓ Fearless - Book 1 of The Rajkumari Trilogy
Historical Fiction~~~ "You're smart, I've got to give you that!" Suruchi breathed out as they reached the hallway. "Give it to me when I get the task done," Revati said, reaching out to unlock the door but froze. A high-pitched scream pierced the air. And several mo...
