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Her knees clothes were torn into pieces and her knees were bleeding. Her hands were leaving behind a trail of blood. All the strength in her body was drained out. As she was being pulled her hands touched a stick , she gained the last bit of strength of her body and holding the stick in her hands she turned around and hit on the man's knees . Before the man could react he fell down on his knees and let go of her. Sonal tried to stand up but her knees were bleeding. She still tried to walk. As she walked a few distance she finally saw Arjun running towards her.

She fell down on the ground. Arjun ran to her holding her in his arms. He looked towards thean who was following her. He helped her sit down . And leaped towards the man , his eyes were red with anger. The man was frightened by his face. Arjun grabbed the man's neck with his full strength. The man's face became red . Sonal was in no condition to care about them. The man was about to die
She weakly said -"Arjun if he does, we can be in trouble". Arjun still didn't let go . He slapped the man so hard that two of his teeth came out.

He punched the man several times, the man was bleeding everywhere. At the end when the man's breathing became weak he let go. He kicked on the man's chest so hard that the man  shouted like an animal. Even sounds of bone breaking could be heard . He came to naina and picked her up in his arms.
He moved towards where he came from . Naina became unconscious in his arms. Blood was dripping from her hands. Arjun put her hands on her stomach.

He was still trembling with anger. When he landed here he couldn't find naina around. When he knew the directions he ran immediately. Seeing naina's condition his breathing stopped for a moment.  She couldn't even open her eyes well. Her hands were bleeding like pool. He was maddened by anger at that moment.

He started running when he finally stopped there was a river in front of him.  He put naina down on the grass. He took off his shirt and tore it in half and went to the river and wet his shirt. He came back and wiped Naina's bleeding hands and knees. He dripped water on sonal's face but she didn't wake up . At the end he himself lifted her clothes to wipe her stomach and chest. He didn't even move his eyes to look at other places other than the wound. He took the other half of the shirt and tied it on her wounds .

The tears had dried up and made marks on her face. He wiped her face from his hands. A tear slid down from the side of her eyes. He wiped her face and lay beside her without a shirt. He stayed awake all night to look out for small and big animals. In the middle of the night the panel again appeared
'we are really sorry, we will take you back in 3 days . Till then you keep this ring'.
Arjun looked at the ring which appeared out of thin air. 'as long as it you ask for things you will get them by tapping the ring and thinking about it'. Arjun nodded.

He thought of a shirt . He didn't know in which era they were but looking at that man's clothes they must be around and era of kings and queens.
He thought of first aid kit and changed naina's dressing again so as the wound don't get infection.

Naina muttered something in her sleep. As she moved her hands and expression of pain appeared on her face. Arjun held her hand softly. He regretted why he left that man alive. Naina's hair which was opened at some point was sticking to her face he tugged them behind her ears.

As she morning dawned naina finally gained conciousness she was still stuck in that nightmare.she looked around Arjun wasn't there , she panicked and tried to stand up but fell on her knees . A gasp came out of her lips. Arjun who was roaming around heard this noise and quickly came there. Seeing Arjun tears dripped from naina's eyes. She hugged him tightly. Arjun covered her in his arms like a mother protecting her cub. He was patting her head. Naina was still sobbing.

"Arjun, I was so afraid, I called you but you didn't come". "That man was pulling me by legs". " I..  I was so scared". Arjun rubbed her back and said "aren't i here for you" , don't cry okay".

Arjun kept comforting her. Last night was really horrible for her and it may take days for her to become normal. They couldn't stay her for long it was already dawn and animals would be here to drink water . Naina calmed down and sat still for almost an hour. Arjun felt heartache seeing her conditions. Naina finally calmed down convincing herself that atleast she didn't experience the scariest thing. Arjun saved her in the end. Naina looked at Arjun , he came near her. She looked at the bandages on her body .

" Where did you get them". Arjun told her everything naina with Arjun's help washed up, at this moment she had left all the shyness behind because her life was more important for her. Arjun didn't know in which era they were but he still thought of the most proper thing to wear and not to be recognised as odd. Naina asked for the ring from him. She imagined a saree with ancient look , she didn't really wanted something uncomfortable, so she choose an silk saree. Arjun went away from that place when naina was changing. After putting blouse and inner wear on.

Naina rolled the saree a few times but she didn't know how to wear it. She again imagined a saree manual. After looking at it for some time she finally wore the saree.

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