🔱Mahayudh: War For Balance🔱

24. Offerings Of Blood

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Lub-Dub. Lub-Dub. Lub-Dub.........

Mrityunjay stirred in his sleep as a calm heart raced under his ear and he could hear it. He was clutching onto something soft and he liked it. He kept clutching onto it and relaxed himself more. He felt like he was at the right place. He felt like home. Fresh fragrance of white Lotus and Champa flower was pleasing his senses a lot.

Wait what?!.........Fragrance of white Lotus and Champa?!

Mrityunjay became attentive and raised on his one elbow immediately, remembering who always smells like this. 

He hurriedly removed the blindfold with his one hand and was shocked to see what or whom he had been clutching on to all this time.......or to his embarrassment.......may all night.

Umika was sleeping on her back with no worry of the world. That soft thing that he was clutching onto all this time was Umika's bare waist and from what looked like from their position and his dried blood on Umika's chest that must have escaped the blindfold..................he must have been sleeping with his head on Umika's bosom.

Guilt and shame immediately filled Mrityunjay. How could he insult a woman like this?.......And that too a good woman like Gauri? From the time he can remember his sleep has always been very thin. He has spent nights awake just because sleeping didn't feel like any kind of rest. Then what happened that he slept so hard that he didn't have any idea about situation and proximity.

He decided that he'll tell her everything and ask for forgiveness when she wakes up.

Mrityunjay was about to get but but he didn't as he noticed that Umika's cheeks were tear stained. He gently cupped her face with a frown off concern on his face. Mrityunjay's frown deepened more when he realized that his own cheeks were tears stained. 

He sighed and gazed at Umika. Looking at her sleeping peacefully, he felt like his world was also at peace. He lifted his hand and stroked her head. Keeping his hand like that only he mumbled to her sleeping form 'Jeevan mein vaise bhi kam vichitrata nhi thi................aur ab aapke aane se aur aa gayi hai.' (Earlier also there was no shortage of weirdness in my life.............and now more weirdness is added with your arrival!)

He got up from there and went for an early bath in a stream he had seen in the forest. When he came back he found all of them awake. The girls went to bath and till they returned, Mheem and Mrityunjay summoned their horses down to figure out what to feed them.

The moment they descended on the beach, they immediately ran towards the sea and started drinking the sea water. Well that made sense because clouds are made up of water and their meal also must be water.

The Girls returned and then Mheem went to bath. After he returned they didn't waste any time, mounted their horses and left the beach.

Palace

It was totally dark outside the palace. The torched that were lit were the only source of the light. Sulochana was calmly waking towards the main door with a calm smile on her face.