The Shadow In The Woods
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Abhimanyu, the son of the legendary Gandivadhari and princess of Dwaraka, along with his maternal cousins, encounters a colony of Asuras. While there, he meets a few trapped hermits and sages.
Following the escape from those demons, he spends extended time with them, but doesn't realise that they are his exiled family and the one he connected to was his Father Arjuna, whom he had yearned to meet for years.
This is a story, recounting a fictional circumstance about a son and his father and the trials faced by both during their time together and after.
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