Nakul's POV
       Things changed so fast and so drastically. I didn't want in my wildest dreams to hurt Adrika. Yet I did. She was supposed to be only name to be associated with mine. Yet now Droupadi was here. My heart and soul would be with my Adrika. Will Droupadi ever understand this? Will she ever understand the love she is now expecting from all of us, is not possible for me to give? But she had to. I needed to talk to her. Before that another big trouble was in front of us. The only supporter of us in hastinapur was now against us. Pitamah was not ready to even talk to any of us. And Jyeshth bhrata was so affected from this is that he was almost ready to leave his rights to the throne. But we were able to retrieve him from that. Mainly Droupadi. At least we all trust her judgement. So we agreed on her talking to Pitamah. Maybe her innocence could change his mind about us. I so terribly miss my Adrika now. She had solution to all our problem. No! she was the solution to all our problems. I wished she was here.

"When you are going to talk to Droupadi about Adrika Nakul?" Bhrata Arjun asked in a desperate attempt to change the mood.

"Once the first chance I get. But I so wish I don't have to. It will be so easy on me but more on Droupadi if she get this from Adrika herself. Not me." I said.

"Didn't she said she will be here when we are in trouble? Then why she is not?" Bhrata bheem asked.

"Her promise was based on another promise. When we could not keep that one, I'll not be surprised if she abandoned us after this. How can we keep any expectations from her when we could not even respect her?" Jyesth bhrata said.

"She will not. She can't. She is.." I could not finish. The thought of being away from her for the rest of my life made me breathing abnormal.

"She will come Jyesth bhrata. She needs some time. But she will return."

Bhrata Arjun said. With a quick nod to me. It was assuring. Yet I cannot be peaceful when she is not in front of me.

Adrika's POV

          I waited for the man to return from mahamahim Vishm. A little away from me some soldiers were chatting. One of them said something in my direction which caught my ears.

"Since when Dwarka use women as messangers? Do you even remember the path home little girl? Who knows may be one of us will have to take her home." They all laughed at this.

       I smiled thinking world never changes for women. They will be look down as weaker gender. No matter what the time is. Medieval or 21st. I didn't knew I wasn't the only one someone else was also listening. Their voice said

"What kind of malediction is this? Towards a messenger and that to woman? Don't you know how to behave with them?"

"Angraj... We are sorry. We are just kidding around. She is so fragile to be a messenger. That's what we meant." One of them said.

"Mind your words soldier. Your justification is as pointless as your behavior. Fragile. For what? Because she is a woman. Dwarika is the land of free thoughts and opportunity. I have seen a few very versatile warriors. Don't forget one of them is a woman. The princess of the land this messanger came from. Leave." Karn growled in a heavy tone. They left to their respective places. But still were starring at me. Karn then turned to me.

"I apologize for their behavior. You should come with me to wait in the waiting halls." He said.

"No apology needed. But it's my pleasure that my thoughts are still clouds Angraj's mind." I said removing my hood. His face beamed with happiness.

"Adrika! Is that you?" He said. We gave each other a warrior hug.

"How are you my friend?" I asked.

"In ecstasy. It has been in my desires to meet you. But I didn't know where you are at. Rumors were you left in search of knowledge." He said leading towards a path. We started walking.

"This time I was searching myself angraj. I'm glad I did find myself." I said. He looked at me confused.

"So those are true? About your powers and kingdom." He asked.

"Yes. Kneel down for queen of The Island." I said laughing at the irony. It's not even my time and I'm a queen here. But he did the unexpected. He did kneel in front of me. Which made me so startled that I forgot my composer and held both of his shoulders.

"Angraj! What on earth you are doing?"
He held my hands and said

"I'm kneeling in front of the queen of The Island."

            We locked eyes for some time before cracking up in laughter. This made my heart a little lighter. He got up and we started our walk again in silence. May be we didn't had anything to say to each other. But it was not awkward or uncomfortable. It was peaceful. I was thinking about this great warrior in front of me. He was a friend I didn't asked for or expected to get. But here he was. And I wasn't even realised how I needed him. All that happened recently and was going to happen, I needed this small time with him.

"So you are here on business?" He asked me.

"Certainly. With mahaamahim vishma. If he agrees then king as well." I replied.

"Why don't you meet the king directly?" He asked.

"He doesn't look at me preferably. So mahamahim vishma first." I replied.

          Then the guard who was left with my message came back. He looked confused to see Karna with me. But composed himself before saying

"Mahamahim vishma is now ready to meet you..... " Not sure how to address, to him clearly I wasn't a mare messenger anymore, but also he didn't know me.

"Queen of The Island. Or Princess of Dwarka." Karn said ending the poor man's delima. He bowed down immediately.

"Your Highness.. I'm so sorry. I didn't know you."

"No offence taken. Thank you for the earliest meeting arrangements." I said. He bowed and left.

"I will take a leave then." I said to karne who asked me

"How many days will you be residing here?"

"May be one or two days. It's solely relay on how my meeting turns the event." I said.

"I disbelieve if anything turns unfavorable that including you. Your every words are well cultivated. Who in the right mind can deny you of anything."
I just smiled. Then he continued.
"I yearn for a practice session if you aren't too occupied."

"Undeniably. If you don't change your mind." I said, of course he didn't understand. Yet didn't ask. We parted our ways. I turned around and said

"Radheya!" He turned back immediately as I never called him that.

"Thank you for not mentioning about that marriage or be sympathetic." I said. He was one of few people who knew about me and Nakul. He came to me.

"Adrika! I don't know what I feel about you. I don't know what kind of emotion I have towards you. I can't think of you as sister. I cannot be anywhere near like Basudev krishn or Sriman Balram. Only they have the potential to be your brother. I respect you way too much to think of you as a potential partner. Yet I feel really protective towards you. Yes what happened was unfortunate but you are way above anyone's sympathy. I don't want to disrespect you by showing you sympathy." He said with such honesty that for a moment I thought I was listening about someone else. I didn't had any knowledge of his thoughts about me. And hearing it loud and clear had me stranded on thoughts of how to respond.

"I'll be looking forward to that practice session." He said and left me standing there.

     I composed myself as I had much more complex work in front of me. I walked towards mahamahim vishma's room. While I saw a lady figure is walking in my direction. Wearing red and gold she was walking fire. I knew who she was. Droupadi saw me, her face flashes a disbelief demeanor. We stood in front of each other.

"Queen Adrika! I didn't expected you." She said.

"I promised pandavas queen Droupadi, I'll be here when they are in an kind of sticky situation. Let me talk to mahamahim vishma first. He is too furious right now to listen to your reasoning. My experience with him will help me force him to a point where he will need to rethink his views on the whole afire." I said ready to enter the chamber.

"Why?" She asked.

"Why? "

"Why are you helping me, after what happened between you and me?"

"You and me... You and me are connected in a different bond than normal understanding. You are Agnija and I'm nature. You are Jagyaseni and I'm the holocaust of that jagya. You and me are independent yet so affixed. Tum karm ho Droupadi aur main niyati." I said.
(You are the deed and I'm destiny.)

She smiled and asked
"Will I ever be able to understand you brother and sister?"

"Probably not. We brother and sister have a notoriety to nurture." I said laughing. She laughed too.

"I'll wait here for your return Adrika."
She said and I nodded.

     Getting her on board was one of the toughest job I could ever do. But now that she was in good terms I could finally focus on things that needed attention effective immediately. I rushed into Mahamahim Vishma's chamber where we spent the number of evenings in discussion. I saw him standing in the same spot as our discussions happened in the past.

"This can cause a large familiarity in events as you are already there." I said to which he and mahamantri vidur looked at me.

"Adrika! Putri!" He said in disbelief.

     I touched both of their feets. After a very generous blessing mahamahim vishma hugged me.

"Your showing up here is like shower of rain in a hot mid day sun... Man shant ho gaya putri."
(My heart is at peace)

"Your distress is about pandavas. They and me are not divided mahamahim!" I said.

"You know my delima. What they did is unthinkable. It is against righteousness." He said.

"What is my righteousness Mahamahim?" I asked him.

"Clear your words Putri." He said.

"They called me The Learned One. I also go as Idivita. But do my righteousness allows me to stop learning and think my knowledge whole?" I asked.

"No. A person learn untill their death. A real learned never stops." He answered.  I smiled.

"Then why are you showing cessation towards my Jyesth Yudhishthir instead of providing him a chance to learn?" He didn't have any answer to my question.

"The events in Kampilya is not my place to explain, there is someone else eagerly waiting for that. But I can talk about your other delima. Yudhishthir or Duryodhan. Choose the learned one. The one have the ability to learn, change and adapt." I said. Mahamantri vidur nodded on my statement.

"Putri. You come with such knowledge that I always doubt all my consciousness. Yet you always left me so satisfied in spiritual level. Can I ever repay you?" He asked with a relieved smile.

"Most certainly you can. I have written everything in this letter. If you both agree."

          They read the letter and we spend our next several hours discussing over it. When I returned I saw Droupadi patiently waiting for me there. She rushed to me.

"Your victorious smile says your meeting went exceptionally well." She said.

"I made my point. Now your turn. He is much calmer now and will understand you better." She nodded and was about to leave.

"Oh.. Droupadi. Pandavas don't know about my arrival here. Lets keep it that way." I said. She smiled knowingly.

"What cunning course of action you have planned now? "

"Not me. We." I said.

"We?" She asked
"Yes. You and me. We will give the Hastinapur court a day to remember for ever. "

         We both smiled at each other. May be not for long but seems like Droupadi knew me better than most people. She went inside leaving me under the sky about to dawn to go through my plan in my memory palace.

Hi everyone
So glad I could keep my promise. Here is the update. Looking at the recent events I wrote this chaper with hyped anxiety levels. So please forgive me for more than normal grammatical errors. And please show your support in votes and comments.
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Words.
Jagyaseni: someone who is born from jagya.
Angnija: someone who is born from fire.
Both are other names of Droupadi.