MAHABHARAT--- Though the fighting between the Pandavs and Kauravs remain at the heart of it, the epic revolves around the conflict of Dharma. In this work of fiction I present to you the human emotions, conversation, thoughts of everyone as they mee...
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Arjun was watching the trees, how they sway in a warming breeze. The spasm of this nature felt when summer begins to blossom into something the body feels as much as the brain, when the emotions catch their thermal updrafts. The thought of summer tingled a strange feeling in his heart; a good strange feeling. It might be owing to the fact that Parth was experiencing the gleeful weather after ending his dwell on the earth in the crisp mountains or pushing through the rubbles of Hell or watching the summer shade peeping through the canopies of tree made him feel safe.
A shifting sound beside him result to bring back his wanderlust mind to someone that needed his attention now. That certain someone being his former nemesis and elder brother, Angraaj Karn.
"A month will pass if we don't talk, or try to at least." Arjun uttered passing a sly smile to Karn. The scoffing that followed from Karn after Arjun's words weren't exactly calming for the latter.
"I noticed how you were enjoying the trees and you had a...calm expression." Karn explained with a teasing smile, "I seldom see you calm, that's why decided to bask in this rarity."
Arjun narrowed his eyes propping one of his eyebrows up staring at Angraaj, and he also, returned the same challenging glance. Parth was a bit offended, not because he said such a thing, but because he knew such a thing about Arjun. In all honesty, Arjun was not exactly calm with Karn; how will he? The said person always dug up a reason to take him up for any challenge.
"In that scenario, I recall a certain someone who was always eager to go under my skin" Arjun retorted to Karn who showed a glint of amusement and smile.
"Recon than we have one more thing in common, you know topping our shared hate, arrogance and archery."
"And also, same lineage of blood." Arjun grinned, Karn shot yet another amused look however decided to keep quiet of the matter.
Karn had so many things to ask Arjun, so many unanswered questions. Did he really thought of me as a brother? Karn's mind desperately knocked this question. But asking something so deep; taking in mind the thin line between love and hate between them was yet to fade, and God forbid, if it made the situation more awkward.
"What does everyone do around here?" Arjun suddenly asked breaking the ice. He understood something was fidgeting in Karn's mind and he would be lying if he said certain questions didn't trotted in him too.
"Lounge back in your chair and watch the Heaven unfold it's might, literally." Karn answered. "Isn't it the idea of afterlife - to rest?"
"If afterlife implied to clean the mud one spilled in his whole life, than heaven be damned, literally."
Arjun could swore he again saw that glint of smile in Karn.
