16 Confession

Arya Camp----

Beside the Lake----

Varundev have completed his practice and was resting in the rock nearby. Sivaan came and said,

"This isn't your sword Varundev, is it"?

" It's hers. Maybe someone have exchanged it by mistake".

" You still think ' by mistake ' ".

"It's just a coincidence, Sivaan".

" This is luck, my friend. Your luck is signaling you again and again and every time you refuse to accept it. This is not any coincidence ".

" Then what is it, if it is not coincidence? What kind of game is the luck of mine is playing with me? She is my enemy ".

" She is your soulmate. This is only the game of the luck. Your luck has made you meet your soulmate but that's as a enemy. That enemy, whose image, whose voice, makes you wake up from your sleep again and again. Making you restless. Whose attack didn't felt anything for you but whose glance pierced into your heart. Whom you weren't able to kill, even if you wish to ".

" And tomorrow "?

" If you have already raised this question in your mind, then don't waste the time you have now. Consider the words of your friend. Go and meet that Dravid girl, for at least once".

"With Devsena"?

" Yes, Varundev. Go and meet her. Don't make this restlessness of the night make you weak in the combat of tomorrow. At least tell her about your feelings ".

" Will she also be going through this restlessness "?

" Don't you think, she is the only person who can answer this question of yours"?

"No. It's wrong".

" It maybe wrong for a Arya representative, but can't be wrong for a lover. Accept this weird truth and meet her. It may not happen that the sun came out and this lover have again to change into a Arya representative. And nobody knows that may your luck will provide you another chance or not".

"But isn't the truth will remain the same".

"No. If you will not meet her then, in tomorrow's combat neither you can kill her nor you can die. The warrior and the lover inside you, both will remain incomplete".

" And if I will meet her"?

"And if you will meet her, then neither you will be hesitant to kill her nor will be hesitant to be killed by her. Your love will be indebted to your birth. You can ravish the fruit of good deeds of this life in any of your rebirth".

Dravid Practice Ground----

Devsena was practicing with a statue. She finished beheading it and turned around only to found Varundev. She asked

"How are you here now"?

"Just like someone who comes in the dream. In the thoughts".

She took the sword and keep it near his head.

" Is this the Dravid tradition to harm an innocent ".

"Isn't it taught to you to keep the enemy at the distance of the sword"?

" Yes, but I haven't been learnt on how to go to the enemy's area by wish".

"So why are you here"?

" You really don't know"?

She said to herself, "What are you doing, Devsena? Keep your imagination to a limit. Get the control on yourself".

" Devsena, if I am in your thoughts then, why are you hesitant to accept me? Across the range of thought is it reality. Turn to accept the reality only ".

" Be cautious... If not then.....

You can't keep on imagining him. You can't ".

Dravid Palace----

Devsena has completed applying ointment to her wound and was about to lay on the bed, she heard some footsteps coming from the balcony. Under the shining glow of moon and the flickering light of candles, she again saw that handsome face of Varundev. For some second she went into the deepness of his eyes.

" Mahisiamman, give me strength. Just why am I getting this delusion "?

" I am not your delusion, Devsena. If want, clear you misconceptions by touching me".

"Stop right there. Don't come forward. How did you able to come here"?

"Your wanting brought me here".

" If I want, I can make you caught ".

" In what cause? That I am here to take my sword".

"I didn't stole your sword"!

" Absolutely not. Why do you have to stole my sword when you already have my heart with you ".

" Go back Arya, if not then...."

"Devsena, we get the illusions of those persons only who have captured our heart and mind. I am also in this state. Think, I have came here without thinking about the loss of my life, my reputation and the victory or defeat of my peoples. Why? Because I want to know the truth. At least want to share my truth to you. My friend thinks that I have fallen in love. With you. And this only is the truth".

"But I hate you. My father died, only because of you".

" In the battle"?

"If he had to die in the battle, we Dravids are not that inferior that we could have felt such hatred towards our enemy. You have insulted him in the battlefield".

" How"?

"By having mercy on him. By giving him water instead of death".

" He was a great warrior. He was alive during the end of the battle".

"For we Dravids, our reputation is utmost. We don't accept on living in someone's mercy".

" I agree that I have given him water. But for we Aryans, there is a difference between mercy and humanity. That day your father had fought with great valor. I was about to stab him but the signal of sunset sounded. We Aryans, don't fight after sunset. After the end of the battle, even our enemy is just a common person for us, and we have our humanity for him. Your father was unconscious and was asking for water. I heard him and gave him water.

"Devsena, we didn't met coincidentally. We are fated to meet each other. When you have touched me for the first time, you have been in my thoughts since that day. My mind knows that you are my enemy but heart have started to accept that you are only my soulmate. Today I am in front of you, speaking about my thoughts and you are listening it. Why? Because this is what going to happen. This is what written in our destiny".

" This is just a coincidence. You are an Arya. My opponent. I have to make the combat of tomorrow decisive".

"Me too, Devsena. This is chance that the most luckiest person on this Earth can get. Two warriors falling in love in the battlefield. Echoing of their love by the clashing of their sword. The wounds they have given to each other becoming the mark of their love. Heart is not bind to a single birth, if you are my soulmate, then remember that, we Aryans think that souls are immortal and so is the love of the soulmates".

" Birth and death are all in the hands of Mahisiamman ".

" And love? Tomorrow's combat is important for both the Dravids and the Aryans. But more important for us. And most important for me because if you also love me, then whoever will die tomorrow will not be incomplete. A complete warrior, a complete lover will die. In tomorrow's combat, if you will return me my sword I will accept that my love is one sided and my fate will only take the decision for me but if you will fight with my sword, then whoever wins or loses, our love will surely win".

"Um.... How will you go back"?

" If you too care for me, your love will shield me till my aim place. If you don't love me then, it's better to die by your hands, then dying by the hands of your soldiers. Pick up the sword and stab me in the chest. Many says that, those who die by the hands of their love, can be successful in achieving the goal of their love. No matter how many times you re birth, you will be in relation with me in every life".