MIRAGE OF HEARTSTRINGS

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"they look good now"

The first thing after Reaching back to the Anga, karna did was to get the children cleaned with young woman in care of maids as they feed them before Karna come back from his talk with mantri Vid while the workers with dushasana and ashwatthama play or look around the children but duryodhana stayed back.

"kids looks happy, right?"

Karna asked walking towards duryodhana who shrugged saying "who cares, I don't like kids" only to get silence in response as he look at karna, to find him smirking making duryodhana confuse while Karna says "Oh, you do" before going towards the office to work.

Going inside the office, karna found a royal stamped scroll on his table as he open it, reading before he rub his face tiredly only to hear question from ashwatthama behind him "what happened?"

"you remember those 100 kingdoms under Magadh that I released?"

"yeah, what about them?"

"they send this notice saying, they want to surrender"

"surrender? Was there a fight going on?"

"No, I mean, they lost from Jarasandh that's why they were under Magadh so they are saying when I won over Magadh, I technically won over their Rajyas too..............is it hurtful to say, they are weird? They don't want freedom" Karna says as he sat on his chair while looking at ashwatthama who hummed before he at his right, finding duryodhana coming making ashwatthama say "ask him"

"what?" Duryodhana asked, confused as he hear ashwatthama explaining the situation making him look at karna before saying "they are not weird, you releasing them is already a mark on their tainted impression as they are the Rajyas who were already won over by Jarasandh and you winning over Jarasandh automatically means you won over those 100 Rajyas too. Even if they would be released they won't be respected by King's of other Rajyas except some and what is the point of getting respected by some when there is only disrespect going all over the Aryavarta of you?"

Kanak internally nodded at duryodhana's explanation cause first it is true what duryodhana said and second duryodhana is also Yuvraj of Hastinapur for a reason, he knows politics. Karna sighed leaning his head backward before squeezing his eyes shut as he says "tell them, I accepted it"

Nodding, kanak went outside to tell avyaan about sending the letter as it is always avyaan who go with the letter to other Rajyas.

After a while everyone went to the garden seeing all the workers taking care of children as dushasana, upon noticing karna's presence, ask "will they live in palace forever?" making karna shook his head as he look towards the entrance before saying "I already asked for help, Welcome Ekalavya!!" as he smiled going towards his friend unknown to shock of five people near.

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It is nothing new to hear ekalavya's name for Pandavas as he is a very known person for his Gurudakshina making everyone in the world shock but they didn't knew that karna know Ekalavya.

They watch ekalavya hugging karna as they ask each other about well being before ekalavya went to greet ashwatthama and then duryodhana as he ruffle dushasana's hair making him complain with a whine "you guys have some obsession over my hair or what?" while they all laugh.

"so, what was the urgent need?" Ekalavya asked as he look at karna who look towards the children before saying "I need to make few orphanages but one is desperately needed in emergency and I want the orphanage to be made of very powerful woods so that it won't crumble down under any circumstances unless it is a big tragedy-" looking at ekalavya he says "-and those types are woods are only find in your clan"