She turned to see him calling. By then, everyone left the place. Arjun saw her coming towards him, mirroring his expression, and stood in front of him. They were just lost in each other's eyes. Her waves were subtly flying on her face. The cold Breeze was not helping either.
'Wow, this feels weird. I must say he has beautiful eyes'
"Uh, You called me?", She asked him. Arjun came out of his trance, "Uh, that, It's just that, uh", He forgot why he called her for a moment. 'Why am I acting like this?', Arjun thought. He mentally facepalmed himself, before asking her, "I just wanted to ask you, the song you sung today and also the one in the temple, like, they are so outworldly. Where did you learn them? I felt like- it's so- ugh it's unexplainable" Arjun said with a mesmerized expression.
"Oh those were the songs from my place. Those are really famous you know?", She said excitedly. "What Raga are those? Which Tala to use?", He started to bombard her with questions. She felt dizzy by hearing those questions.
'Oh god, I knew this would happen. Time to escape, Vaishu'
She fake yawned and said, "Rajkumar, I am actually very tired right now, we will talk some other time. Ok Good night!!!", and she was about to leave the place, then he interrupted and asked, "later when?".
'This human doesn't feel like leaving me'
"Tomorrow? How bout tomorrow? Fix. Tomorrow it is. Okay then byeee", she said and sprinted away. He just laughed at her antics and looked at his palm, just to find the earring in his hand. He facepalmed and murmured to himself, "I forgot to give it back to her again".
She soon changed into her Pyjamas in which she was comfortable enough, and was lying down to sleep. Just then, Kunti barged into her room and saw her in that outfit.
"PUTRI, what is this immoral dress? Why are you wearing this?", Kunti basically screamed, but not loud enough to wake anyone up. She jerked on her bed, and came to explain the situation to her, but Kunti was not ready to listen to anything.
"First of all, change the clothes"
"But Mata, there is no one here to look at me in the wrong way"
"No buts, Do as I say"
"Mata!, this is how we dress in our era. I can't change it now, right? Dwapar yug is really unjust towards women. Maannnn!!", She said in a breath, which is followed by immediate regret.
"Era? Dwapar yug? Putri, are you hiding something from me?", she asked her, unable to comprehend anything. Vaishnavi didn't know how to defend herself, and decided to tell her the truth. Soon, she started telling her the whole thing from Nepal to Matsya to Dwaraka and finally to Hastinapur.
She only could nod for every piece of information she has been receiving. "Did you get it, Mata?", Vaishnavi asked skeptically. "Huh! Yeah. Yeah. I get it", Kunti said shakingly. "Mata, I think you need time to comprehend it fully", she said with concern. "Yeah putri, I need time for this. You go to sleep. I'll see you tomorrow", she said and left the place. Vaishnavi didn't understand why Kunti was behaving like this. She went to sleep and decided to discuss this with her the next day.
Kunti was going to her Chamber, thinking about only one thing. " If she is from future, Does she know that Karn is my son? What if she tells everyone? What if she tells him?"
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The next morning, she woke up before sunrise and did her warmups and workout in her bedroom. Then the Dasis came and made her take bath, giving weird looks towards the dress she wore last night. She got ready wearing a heavy lehenga, as this is the day where they announce the crown prince. As per yesterday's news, Arjun won the game, which naturally gave the Crown prince position to Yudisthir. As she was walking towards the hall, she lost her way, again.
'Ugh!! Not again. Not when I'm wearing this goddamn heavy lehenga. Why don't they give me a simple one's. '
As she was thinking this, she saw that she reached the practice arena. She saw many Princes and Karn practicing their respective skills. She was about to go there but an arrow shot in front of her leg suddenly. She looked up to see who it was, and found Karn coming towards her.
"Vaishnavi, Good morning", Karn picked up the arrow and smiled at her. "Is this your way of greeting me this morning?", she asked him feigning hurt. " Haha no, I've heard that you are a very skilled warrior too! So a warrior greets a warrior like this only", he replied. "Oh, well then, let me greet you in my style too", saying this, she picked up a bow and an arrow, shot it towards him, which went super close to his face but didn't hit him. It hit the wall behind him. He gave an 'I'm impressed' look. She immediately shot two more behind him, only for them to land in front of Duryodhan and Dushasan.
"Are you trying to kill us, woman?", Dushasan asked. "Oh, I just wanted to greet you guys a very good morning", she told. "Devi Vaishnavi, I don't think this is a place for a woman", Duryodhan told. "And you are no one to decide that, are you Prince Duryodhan?", she replied. He clenched his fists at that. "Just to tell you, women are not confined to kitchen alone. And we are not only limited to bear children. We are much more than that. And I hope you will understand that very soon. She angrily left the place after Duryodhan's remarks.
Arjun was coming towards the practice arena finishing his morning prayers and saw all this fiasco from a distance. 'Damn, She has got some guts', he thought to himself and chuckled as she was different from any other woman he had ever seen. Well she indeed is.
Kunti was also seeing all this and went towards her, "Vaishnavi, Putri how did you use the bow and arrows?". She smiled and told her, "Mata, i told you that I am an Archaeologist. But I didn't tell you what I did, what I used to be before, Did I?"
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Phew, this chapter took a lot of editing that any other chapters lol
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