Soulmate [UNEDITED]

trip

The doctor stood up and went towards the center of where the crowd was, she smiled as she completed her sentence "congratulations!!, the state is going to have a heir soon!!, king Harshat, distribute sweets hahahaha" the doctor laughed and went away.

All the queens were happy yet shocked. Tara is pregnant.

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As soon as Tara woke up from her unconsciousness, everyone started to congratulate her "rani Tara, congratulations!!" One of the higher up servants said as soon as she saw her waking up. She took Tara by hand and guided her outside the room, to a hall where all were present. The hall looked magnificent, every corner was moulded with flowers and decorations. All the queens were sitted around the grand chair, which was decorated the most and was placed in the middle. Harshat sat behind the chair in his designated place, the father king was also present there, for the first time he was smiling.

The servant guided her to sit on the grand chair. The ceremony was small yet celebrated grandly. Others bought flower jewelleries and put it on Tara one by one, no heavy jewelry was allowed on her, as per the father king's instructions, it could be harmful for the baby. Songs were played, dancers were dancing along the rhythm of the music. Everything was good, everyone was delighted, but this made Tara sad, her heart ached to tell the truth, but she can't, atleast not now.

The grand queen came and sat beside her, she took one of the sweets and fed it to Tara as a sign of congratulations "I hope he only becomes yours" her eyes held the same pain as before, but something changed, the rage, the uneasiness, the grief, the agony, those vanished, those were replaced by a determined stable look "sorry, I took away your love-" she stopped her by putting another sweet in her mouth "Don't, it's your special day, let's have this conversation later" she smiled and slided aside, one by one every rani came and congratulated her, even rani Bela was brought by the servants. Tara took her and let her stay beside her in her jhula (swing).

Harshat came and fed her a piece of sweet too "congratulations, let's do this" she nodded at his words, he stood beside as the father king now came to congratulate the newly pregnant queen "I'm so happy today! After so many years, a heir is coming in my home hahaha" He laughed, he motioned one the servants to bring a key, it was a big golden key "this is the key to the treasure house of late mother queen, now I'm handing over this to you" He said proudly "father, I don't want this key but something else, can I ask for that?"

"Take it putri, keep it, I'll still grant your other wishes, you have given me the most pleasant news today" His voice held power as always, he knew, even if Harshat is the king, no one will lift a finger without asking him. "I want all of us to go on a trip, we will announce this news to public soon anyways, let us have a fun moment before that" she reasoned in a hurry. He took a lot of time to think, even Harshat had to persuade him that Tara won't be able to move after few months, so in the end he agreed.

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"We will go to Manchitrana!! Its decided!!" All the queens were gathered around the table to select a place on the map, after a lot of debate, their final destination was Manchitrana.

"Tara, what is the size of the baby right now?" Everyone of them were children, all their curiosities peaked when they found a person to ask questions comfortably, without getting scared "now? Almost non existence" she laughed at their silly questions "non existence?! Then how did the doctor know that there is a baby in you?" Answering children's questions is the hardest task " He can talk to it through their knowledge, that is why he knows that there is a baby in here" she pointed at her face, making a funny serious face to engross them in her talk "wow he is so talented" she smiled back " then how will the baby grow?" She pinched rani sudeshna's cheeks "the baby will eat what I eat and grow" sudeshna furrowed her eyebrows "What if the baby wants to eat laddoo and you eat kheer?" Tara couldn't held but giggle out at her question. Rani Vaishali and rudraveena being the eldest among them, just sat there and enjoyed the environment.

On the other hand, Kashi was tasked with arrangements of the trip. While talking, Tara signaled one of her trusted servants to come near her, she handed her a hand note "deliver this to the father king, do not go through mediums, give it to him yourself" she sent her away and continued her fun talk with the other girls.

The servant took the note and went towards the bed chamber of the father king. Upon arrival, she asked the gaurds for approval "rani Tara sent me here to deliver this message to his highness, the father king, please grant me permission" one gaurd nodded at the other and went inside "your highness, rani Tara sent a message for you" the father king was too happy today, why won't he, he finally got what he wanted after years of hardwork and mind games he forced on Harshat. He was in a good mood, whatever will be asked today, it will surely be granted. And a request from the mother of the heir herself? It was bounded to be approved "Let the messenger come in" the gaurd bowed and left, few minutes later the servant came in "greetings your highness, this message was sent by rani Tara" she kept the letter on the table and left as she was told.

Quite with a smily face, he opened the letter, but it turned into a frown as he read the letter, it said

"Dear father king,

Please help me kill all of the queens..."