The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 114
A gasp escapes from Maya as she is so curious and shocked to see that happening.
“What?!”.
Maya hears Bhommi’s voice in her mind and she nods “Yes! Few drops of water dripped from the box and it made the leaves into a stone- wait..”.
Bhommi asks “What are you seeing exactly?! “.
Maya climbs down from the tree hurriedly and whispers “It’s turning everything slowly into stone! And those soldiers aren’t aware of it!”.
Bhommi warns “Don’t go in front of them-“.
Maya asks in disbelief “Why?! These humans are unware of this danger!-“.
Bhommi snorts “Honestly, Sister Maya?! Humans are well aware of what they are doing. So stop involving yourself in protecting them. And they have enemity towards this Northern Country. You can’t just assume everything and step in unnecessarily. Keep in mind about your true goals rather involving in everything in front of you”.
For some reason Maya felt her tone similar to the ‘Empress’ she met in future.
Maya stops climbing down the tree and asks blankly “What do you want me to do now?”.
She suddenly doesn’t know what to do further.
Bhommi declares “The water must have been cursed. We should destroy it before it turns everything around you into stone”.
Maya frowns ‘How to destroy water?’.
Bhommi assures “Try to divert them or let them leave the box without knowing your presence. I will come with a solution. But the box shouldn’t be moved from this place even at the cost of their lives”.
Maya whines mentally ‘Why would I take their lives without any reason?! This isn’t my country anyway…so I won’t risk anything unless it triggers my emotions. I can stop that box from going….I can do that’.
Maya shakes her head realizing Bhommi’s disappearance ‘Now she will run to her father for help!’.
She notices the soldiers were left alone by the others as they got delayed by the broken carriage. It made them to get isolated from their crowd ‘naturally’.
Maya smiles “They are only five of them now” and climbs down from the tree after checking the crowd which had left so far by now.
The soldiers keeps the box on the ground and struggles to keep it evenly on the ground so that it is placed properly. After all they must have been warned to be careful while handling the box.
THUD!
Maya lands on the ground slowly and fortunately the heavy sound of the box didn’t reveal Maya”s presence yet as they were so concerned on the box. They did not even notice Maya’s footsteps over the dried leaves which rustled lightly.
Maya frowns noticing them ‘Why are they not moving the box further?’.
She expected them to try to keep up with their soldiers but they kept the box and stood there as if they were waiting for something.
She shrugs it off as she wanted to stop them from going further and they’re doing themselves for her. She leans on a trunk of a tree relaxed and waits silently for Bhommi to return with a solution for the situation.
SIREN BLOWS
A loud siren blares from the some distance and immediately the soldiers gets alerted.
She can say that the siren was some signal from the soldiers.
Maya who was keeping her eyes on them gets stunned to see them unlocking the box now.
In a minute she very sure about what they were trying to do by opening the box in their enemy’s land!
‘What can be expected?! As Bhommi said they are aware of their deeds! They know what this cursed water could do to this place and are ready to destroy this country by turning everything into stone! If Bhommi couldn’t find any solution for this..then everything would slowly change into rocks…Then..everything will be destroyed. .but..Not in my presence! ‘.
She steps out from hiding in alert after seeing them trying to push the box down.
She asks mockingly by stopping them in the process “What are you doing here, Gentlemen?!”.
The soldiers immediately freezes by her sudden sound but soon stands against her in their defensive position.
One of them asks in a warning tone “Who are you?!”.
Now everyone of them is carrying their weapons on their hand and stood around the box protectively.
Before Maya could answer, an another soldier gasps secretly to another man “Did you see that Royal Bow?! Hurry! Let’s do our assigned task right away!-“.
But that didn’t go unheard by Maya.
Maya raises her eyebrows flabbergasted ‘It seems only I can’t recognise any of these Royalty here..’.
She asks innocently pointing the box behind them and starts walking further “What’s in that box, Gentlemen? A gift for the Northern Country? “.
A soldier growls at her in disdain seeing her stepping forward towards them “Run away if you want to live, girl!”.
Maya smirks “Let me see how I won’t be alive, Mister. Care to escape this?”.
Maya has already taken an arrow and shot the man’s leg by the time she ended her sentence!
ARGHHHH!
The man falls down holding his injured knee and the other soldier runs towards her screaming “Kill her!”.
Maya shoots another arrow towards the man who came running first, by his knees so that he couldn’t stand easily.
THUD!
ARGHHHH!
The other three men gets to her at the same time so that she gets confused to whom to attack first. By the time Maya took a decision, she was held by her neck by one of the three men.
She wiggles in his arm while the man chuckles dangerously “You are pretty good at Archery, girl. But not in front of my arms”.
He snatches the bow and quiver from her effortlessly with his one hand while Maya was hanging in his other hand. He chuckles eyeing at her “Look at you! a weak Royal member. Who sent you alone without guards, Huh?!”.
The other two men gets relaxed and laughs mockingly.