The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 106
Kalki and Xavier parted their ways by exactly opposite to each other.
Yes. While Xavier travelled towards the Imperial Palace of the Southern Country, Kalki was travelling towards the Northern Country or he just created a mirage to Xavier that he was returning back to the Northern Country.
Only he could tell where he has gone.
The night was over. In one end, Xavier has given the message to Victor once he reached the Southern Country without even having a thought of reading it. Just as his brother instructed him.
Once Victor got the message from Xavier, he immediately left the Southern Country as per Kalki’s instruction.
The next day morning.
Victor was riding back towards the Northern Country without even caring about the restless night for him. Once he reaches the outskirts of Northern Country, he stops his horse suddenly and takes out the message from his robe.
He was engrossed in a single thought for this entire night of travel.
‘Why did The Crown Prince instructed me before to read the message only after reaching the Northern Country? Was he intended to hide something from Prince Xavier? No. It can’t be’.
He opens the cloth and reads intently ‘Protect the Countryside Pavilion well. No one should enter the Pavilion’.
That was it.
Victor “…” Did I read it wrong?! Was it because of the sleepless night?
He blinks his eyes and rubs it so that he could read it carefully again ‘I should be wrong-‘.
There was nothing else in the message so that Victor might have been confused! There were two simple yet serious sentences which had a big message behind them!
Victor frowns in complete confusion but rides his horse towards the Countryside Pavilion swiftly.
‘If it’s from The Crown Prince then there is no place for any questions’.
So, Kalki wants to protect his unwanted wife?
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The Countryside Pavilion.
Maya was irked after Bhommi’s comment on her impulsiveness.
Maya gets out from her chamber for a walk. More than that she is used to look at the servants planting different vegetations and ornamenting the garden with various flowering plants.
She states mockingly while caressing the leaves “One day you will regret” and looks at Bhommi “for blaming me for being impulsive. One day… You will have no words to praise me for being impulsive”.
Bhommi chuckles “You are so self-conceited, Sister Maya. That day would never come as you can never be serious! Whenever you get serious, you do something to hurt yourself! First you tried to save that human girl and got yourself hurt..Huh? You did that twice! With Celina too! So stop being serious too because when you do, you end up getting hurt more!”.
Maya looks at her darkly ‘She will not change her mind about me! She doesn’t want me to be serious too!’.
She gets a glimpse of a sickle lying on the lawn of lush green grasses. She smiles “It’s been so long..”.
Bhommi nods.
‘After all..she has spent her life in that old temple..She knows every single work in gardening..’.
Maya takes the sickle and starts cutting the vines which grew over the pathways so that the dense garden and the barren pathway contrast each other.
Maya asks Bhommi “What can you do other than magic?”
Bhommi smiles “Why should I do some other things if I can do magic?”.
Maya nods with a smile “True…Are you a Goddess then?”.
Bhommi giggles “You like Goddesses, don’t you?”.
Maya shakes her head and cuts the extra grown branches of the decorative plants just like how the gardeners do everyday. She doesn’t want to be a mere observer anymore.
Bhommi speaks looking Maya who was busy in examining and cutting those over grown twigs “I was with you when you were young”.
Maya rolls her eyes “I don’t remember any dolls like you mentioned”.
Bhommi nods and states “I am not a mere Mage..”.
Maya looks back at Bhommi with a surprised frown.
Bhommi smiles “I am The Fairy of Dolls”.
Maya creases her eyebrows in suspicion “Why did I not hear of such Fairy? Not even in any Epics?”.
Bhommi now rolls her eyes “Not everything is mentioned in the manually written Epics, Sister Maya. No human could be aware of such things”.
Maya asks eagerly “What will you do then?”.
Bhommi states “I am responsible to create an emotion in every child. So that they could even create a bonding with a simple lifeless thing. The thing doesn’t need to literally talk with you, play and eat with you or it might not be able to move on it’s own. But still it can be your companion. Doing everything with you!”.
Maya raises her eyebrows in surprise ‘True…The dolls can never move on it’s own but still it can! It can’t eat but still every child feeds the doll in its imagination or in real! They can play too! ..with our companionship! We can feel an existence of life in a lifeless object! How wonderful that is! A simple doll makes a child into a mother! At that young age, it starts learning to care for the doll just like a mother does! A simple doll teaches a great lesson literally without doing anything! A very common thing since yesterday. ..feels like a totally strange thing for me today. ..I do not remember playing with a doll..that’s why I could not take care of anyone?’
Maya is engrossed in the sudden realization.
Bhommi suddenly turns back “Something is not right!”.
Maya looks around “What?”.
Bhommi speaks flying high from the ground “The Bugles!”.
Maya frowns “The what?”.
A Loud sound of blowing horn can be heard from some distance.
Bhommi comes down to the ground and says “It’s bugle horn. A war sign!”.
Maya opens her eyes wide “A War?!”.
Bhommi nods “I will take a look at the situation. You get back into the chamber!”.
Maya nods and runs back towards her chamber.
‘A war?!’.