What would happen if you were appointed as a bodyguard for the person you were supposed to assassinate?
Adhiveer is a beloved king. Adored by everyone in his kingdom and beyond.
Shiva, a professional assassin, gets easily appointed as his royal gu...
It was a journey of six days to the capital city of Merujaya. Shiva had thought that she would go to the city alone, she had not expected that she would go to the city with the man that she was supposed to kill. What an odd turn of events these were.
On that fateful day, she had received a message to meet a man at the bank of the Raankai River. She had reached there in time only to receive another note with a message written-
The king is your target. Go to the city of Merujaya, and meet a man named Suhala, at the blacksmith's fountain. The rest of the instructions will be given when you reach there.
There was also a satchel with two daggers and tiny bottles of different colours of liquid. They were probably poisons she thought.
After meeting the chief and packing everything, she decided to go with Bagha and the others to the forest to gather herbs and fish from the river. That's when they'd seen soldiers helping villagers out of the building. She had thought that it was just a small quarrel between two small kingdoms and people were escaping to save themselves. She hated wars. War brings only suffering, disparity and death. And often it's only the innocent and poor who suffer the most. So, she, Bagha and others had helped the men to get the villagers to safety.
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Shiva ( Assassin)
But when she found out that they had helped the king's men. And that the king himself was right in front of her, the target. Her head had started to spin. He had seen her. He was staring at her as if he could see right through her. Many times, she thought that he knew she was hired to kill him, that somehow he had found out, and soon he would instruct his men to slay her. So she avoided him as much as possible. And now she was going with him to his place. What would happen if she killed him on the way? Make it look like an accident. Or would the soldiers find her out and kill her? Was it possible to get away with it? But the note had said to wait for the instructions and meet a man named Suhala. What if the person who hired her found out that she had done the job already?
She shook her head to get out those thoughts and just concentrate on the road for now. Maybe at nightfall, she will go ahead and get the job done.
They had tented to take rest. It was almost night. She opened her satchel again. Took out the daggers and put them on the belt under the dress she wore. The king's tent was surrounded by tents of his soldiers and right in front of it was Bhairava's tent. There were two guards appointed to stand in front of the king's tent at the entrance. If she got a chance to enter his tent without being noticed it would be an easy job to just slit his throat. She waited for the opportune moment and decided to do it after everyone was asleep.
Late at night she slipped out of her tent and moved quietly till she reached behind the king's tent. She crouched in the shadow and smoothly made a slit in the canvas and peeped through the hole inside the tent. She couldn't find him. He was not in his tent. Alarmed she swiftly moved across the back and came to the tent where they had stored the food. Her heart was pounding. This was a bad idea she thought. If she goes back to her tent now nobody would know.
