Echoes of Betrayal - Draupadi's Journey

12. Journey

Unknown pov -

Hurriedly we all moved forward , following the markings that we had made on the trees , of this dense forest , the sun was about to go down the horizon and the visibility is going down to nearly zero due to the huge trees and their leaves which is restricting the light to touch the ground......

I was with my two friends sharing the same path , we all were from different villages, but since we follow the same path daily we get accustomised with each other ,  we all work for a merchant whose work is to transport goods between one to another kingdom....

It was a tiring work requiring a lot of physical work and it also took me a good amount of time daily to do to and fro , from my home to my work but still since he provides us a good amount of sum it is all worth it......

Life was hard, no doubt but i found a way to manage my life and my family all together and i am more than thankful for God for this ....

" Mitr , now we have to take different paths from here.... We will see you tomorrow, be careful "

My friend baldev said to me...... Baldev and Rudhir , both my friends lived in neighboring villages away from mine, so they have to take another route..... And from here on , I have to continue my journey alone...

" Ok mitr , you also be careful... It feels like it is going to rain soon , so we have to be fast now... "

Saying so , we passed smiles to each other and moved forward towards our respective pathways .....  As I moved forward ,  I again felt the same gut feeling in me, don't know why but from the morning , I have been feeling that something big is going to happen, something unusual...

Trying to ignore this, I continued my journey towards my home, the thought only gave me soothing feeling , my mother and my sister is my only family that I have , living in poverty taught me and my mother every negative aspect that life can offer to you , but we pledged to keep this negativity to ourselves only , I will not let my little sister affected with it in any ways....

The only goal that I have in my life is to marry my sister to some noble and kind man , but....how will I be able to make sure that she will always remain happy in her life .....

Maharaj Drupad also married his daughter to one of the most prosperous kingdom with the most kindhearted and loving pandavs but see how destiny changed in just few days, our samragi was harassed by her own family, in front of her valours husbands but destiny played such cruel game , the same pandavs who doesn't tolerate any disrespect to even any common women in their rajya, has to witness the most horrendous crime that ever occurred in mankind towards their own beloved.....

And above all that , rumors about missing of samragi has been spread in aryavrat... It is being said that samragi has abandoned indraprastha without any information of her , we as a commoner don't know much about the truth of this rumour, but if it is true , may God help in the healing of the samragi .....

Samragi was the most kind hearted person one should ever encounter, she daily feeds thousands of brahmans and then only she......

"AHHHHHHH"

A distant scream jolted me out of my reverie .....what was that , a female screaming for help in this ungodly hour ....