A Queen In Making

"Are you serious, Your Excellency?"
"I am as serious as I was when I had instructed you, General Venkataraman, to militarily escort the train of the Princess."
"My apologies, Sire; pardon this recalcitrance but she is a woman."
"So?"
"Women don't lead battles. They're too timid for that."
"...."
"I WILL, GENERAL. I WILL"

The Emperor, flabbergasted, swiftly turned to meet a pair of resolute, domineering eyes.
***
Kamayani led a comfortable life under the tutelage of her grandparents and her influential grand-aunt, far from court intrigues and power politics. Timid, shy, and reserved, she was taken to eating potential "knights in shining armour";
Everything changes when her father, Emperor Avinash of Aryavart, is captured and all his male relatives are executed. She's thrust into an abyss of dirty power politics, betrayals, and the looming threat of foreign rule.
And her being a woman doesn't help

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