Chapter 3 - Fresh water channels and meeting prince charming

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"You are queen if you do what your mind suggest, not what others ''


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As patches of dark faded away I passed through thick woods leaving many kingdom's behind on the way to Lahore. I'm riding mostly through woods nearby countryside of coming kingdom's on a way. I knew each and every way to pass through these thick jungles... I'm very much aware of the bandits, burglars who are the main reason of my choosing this path.

These woods are thick like true lovers who didn't determined to stay separate long and always stick to each other. Trees are mostly long, medium and short in heights on top of it emptied spaces filled with throny bushes and mostly wild animals are howling, barking. During night time this thick woods became even more scary than day time. Even during daytime they always spread dark even sooraj devta is sitting on its full glory.

It's noon already and still light of source didn't fully touched the ground, it's already lost in its long thick branches. Due to its thickness bandits, burglars didn't mostly came to find there catch in these woods. So, for me it's safe to rode like a common country men. I rode bahadur only on a very narrow passage which was maybe made by feets of continuous visits of villagers for wood fuel in woods.

I just checked the time on my pocket watch which showed the noon. This incredible little spherical magic box tells me the time in mathematics. It came from far kingdoms of other lands in west... Chinese merchants bought it when they visited there and sell in our hindustan while crossing silk route to their native country.

It's a present given to me by my elder brother who is crown prince of our small kingdom, when I finally learned reading and writing Gurmukhi script and punjabi Language which is my mother tongue and also learned the basic calculation and magic of numbers.

I feel proud to be educated to write my name.. To wrote letters to my other childhood friends who got married few years back.

As I'm in my thoughts..

Mithu start chirping who is flying ahead of me.

Paani.. Paani

Aaab.. Aaab

Suddenly I feel the light breeze flowing calming my nerves and relief sent to my whole body. I knew it I'm near the two brooks who confluened in a harike village__ Ravi and sutlej are names of those fresh water channels. This natural scenery always took my breath away whenever i passes this area during my journeys to my mother's paternal kingdom.

I reached their at the beautiful scene of nature where they meet together and then flow together like no one separate them again this life, seems like deep lovers, pink lotus flowers were flowing on them giving the peace to my tired eyes. I stopped their for a while under the shade of large peepal tree, and then continued my journey toward my in-laws kingdom.

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