The Strange Street to the Wrinkled Memories

Words battle

The train was filled with passengers. Shravya sat by the window and Adwait sat next to her. Soon joined an old woman and she sat infront of Shravya. There was a girl with the woman. The woman herself draped in a shawl and the little girl was wearing a pale blue and rose skirt and shirt. The girl asked, "Grandma, is this our seat?" The old lady nodded as the girl moved closer to her. Beside Adwait sat a young man who just then walked in. He looked as if a student. He carried a school bag and a small suitcase. That young man looked smart.

The train signalled with a loud sound that it would be leaving in less than a minute although the train was almost filled. Shravya saw a green flag move infront and the train gave off a loud horn and soon the train was moving. It began slowly and then was rising it's speed. There was complete silence in their air conditioned royal compartment.

The girl asked, "Grandma, can I take the seat by the window side?"
The lady nodded and they shuffled their seats. The girl had been observing the outside view just like Shravya. The train was already moving on its track but it was moving in a way that was long distanced from the ground. They could see miniature houses at the ground and it felt like the train was flying through the clouds, taking short cuts through the mountain tops. Shravya was frightened from looking at the green, she feared too much height so she turned round to see Adwait and he seemed that he was in boredom and the student was somewhat trying to solve a question in his book from the time he had had a seat. The old lady already dived into reading a thick book that she had found after an hour search in her over-loaded and heavy luggage. Shravya wanted to know who the old lady was for she was travelling in the royal couch.

The young girl suddenly looked at Shravya, "Hey sister! I am Parnika Harshadan Pushpa-Varshan, daughter of Harshadan Gaurik Pushpa-Varshan and Maithili Harshadan Gaurik Pushpa-Varshan. The princess of Pushpa Varsha. This is the royal mother, Ridhi Akash Pushpa Varshan. I have seen you somewhere." She turned to the royal mother, "Grandma! Have you seen her anywhere?" The old lady took her eyes off the book and began examining Shravya.

Adwait turned to her in the mean time, "How come they know you?"
Shravya whispered, "I don't know. I don't remember them."
He claimed, "Ofcourse! How would you remember these people when you exactly don't remember who you are?"
Shravya looked at the floor when Ridhi marked it, "In the palace. Yes! Parnika, we saw her in the palace."
Adwait turned to her, "Are you from Pushpa Varsha?"
On the other side, Parnika was rethinking something.
Shravya denied,"I don't know that place. I have said about Natya Rajya and I have heard others say that I had told them that I came from Aahan Mitrapura. Words passed to my ears about the one and only education village, Vidyalaya Ravikiran and the frozen village who stole the princess of Natya Rajya, that is Arka Hima. It's the first time I have heard Pusha Varsha."
Parnika cleared, "Yes! What was she doing there when we were having a discussion with the queen?"
Ridhi's reply came quick, "She was searching for the queen." She put a pause to recollect further events while Adwait and Shravya began there words battle. Adwait was staring at Shravya, "Hey! Is that your day job?"
Shravya marked, "What?"
"Walking into all the royal palaces you can and searching for the royal members?"
"Definitely no! You are doubting on me?"
"You doubted me and so I can doubt you back. And I really doubt you! I frankly suspect you of acting this sickness?"
"Sickness?"
"Your loss of memory?"
"Horrifying!"
"No! It's terrifying"
"Funny!"
"Seriously?"

The young student couldn't control any more. He stormed, "Will you both please stop? Give me some space to concentrate. I have been trying to solve a question."
Fire can be put off with extinguishers but very little do it work with anger.
Adwait looked at Shravya who grew more angry as she was already in a confusion of her nationality. Was she a Aahan Mitrapuran, a Natya Rajyan or a Pushpa Varshan?
Shravya blasted, "I have been trying to solve my questions and you are asking me to stop?"
He mentioned, "I am the royal nephew of Vidyalaya Ravikiran. I am Harsha Sujith. You don't dare talk to me like that."
"Seriously? I am the friend of this royal scholar of Natya Rajya." She pointed at Adwait.
"Shoo! Quite! I want to solve this within an hour, by the time I reach Vidyalaya Ravikiran."
"You are shooing me. Oh my! How on Earth are you supposed to do it!"
"Silence!"
Adwait looked right and left as the words battle went on. Parnika and Ridhi was silent as they didn't get a space to give up a conclusion from the least of their memory. They felt sorry for Adwait who was trapped in between the two fighters.

Finally the fight was put to an end as Adwait yelled, "Stop!"
Atop of the noise, silence was pulled over until everyone started again on the beautiful view.

"Gorgeous mother nature!"
"Wow! Beautifully lovable!"
"Mind blowing scene!"
"Breath taking scenic! Miraculous grace!" Everyone looked strangely at Shravya as she pulled a full-stop over her point of view.
"Nature never goes out of style. Elegant, stunning and charming! Colour and life, this has made my day."
Adwait whispered, "Wasn't that a too much to express either describe?"
Shravya ended, "Unless all of you learn to express yourself."
Adwait shook his head in disbelief.

Immediately the topic was changed when the student pulled back, "Quite please!"
Shravya was about to restart the words battle but she was stopped by Ridhi, "I and Parnika met you in the palace when we were going to the king to invite the royal family to a festival in our village. That time she was enquiring about the queen to the guard."
Adwait stared at her, "What is to be done with all the royals?"
Shravya innocently confessed, "I don't know."
Adwait paused, "Wait! Royal mother Ridhi saw you when they were inviting the king with family to go to their village for festival. So royal mother, in which palace did you see her?"
Parnika ended it up in a simple and cool manner, "In the royal palace of Aahan Mitrapura."

Adwait sighed, "Oh yes! We are going to there."
Shravya marked, "We will go to the palace."
He put on, "The palace wouldn't open for everyone. It isn't a tourist destination."
Shravya said, "We will say that you are a scholar and so you needs to stay there few days to study about the village."
Adwait nodded.
Ridhi and Parnika asked, "You are to Ahaan Mitrapura? We are going to Pushpa Varsha after inviting all royal families to attend our festival that's tomorrow. Today by evening  itself every royals will join us. If you both are fine, would you like to join us? Our stop is in the next station."
Shravya said after thinking with Adwait, "Thank you but not for now, we will come another day royal mother. We really need to go to Ahaan Mitrapura."
Shravya dived her hand in the bag next to her, searching for water. Adwait looked at her and she could understand the bag was of Adwait. Suddenly something came across her hands.

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