There stood Kashi, watching her husband going away from her "why don't you look at me with those same eyes, even when I did what she did? Even when she wore blue, the color you feel useless and not green, your favorite colour? Why.....why...?"

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The teacher took a week off to to let her anger go away. During this time, all the girls were really happy that they don't have to attend those weird lessons.

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Tara was reading a book in her room, she felt as if someone is watching her from the door. She looked back towards the door to see if someone was there, but no, the corridor was empty, maybe she is getting too sensitive because of the incidents going on in the palace. She continued her reading again, but soon after, she felt the same sensation. This time, she got up and closed her doors, though closing the door meant no one can see her, but her mind kept going back to the sensation of someone watching her. Was someone there for real? Or is she just hallucinating? All these thoughts made it difficult for her to read her book any further. She closed the book and decided to take a stroll in the garden.



The garden was very beautiful, she loved taking small walks here, it always reminded her of the times when she used to play with Nayan in Nazabgar. While walking, she could still feel few shadows behind her, following her , every step she took, they copied.

The people in the hide peeked out from their hideout when they heard Tara's payals ringing, meaning she started walking again, but this time they lost her "huh? Where did she go?" The group came out and looked around them, Tara disappeared? "I'm here".

Tara jumped down from the tree under which the group was standing "why were you guys following me?" She asked to the group of teenage girls aka the ranis following her around. They all got surprised because of her sudden entry, one of them gasped "aap rani ho ya bandar?!" Tara giggled as she booped the rani's nose with a flower she had in her hand "bandaro ki rani hu, ab batao kya hua?" They were about to say something but looked surprised and ran away "Nothing!". This behavior confused Tara even more, what was that they wanted to tell her that they were following her for such a long time. "Weird" as she turned around, she was met with a strong chest with which she bumped and fell down. Before she could hit the ground, two strong arms secured her back, it was Harshat "now what scene are you planning on making huh? Try to live in peace with everyone in the palace understand?" Tara and Harshat got up and took their balance "Oh my god, you're a theif or what Akru Kumar?! Why don't you make noise when you walk, especially when you go near someone's back!!" This ticked off Harshat "You're impossible! 1st you call me akru, now a theif?!!"

Tara stood her ground, she was taught by the king of Nazabgar afterall "Yes, anything wrong? Look at the girls, they ran away because of you, humph" her mood was already down coz it was the 1st time the girls came to her to talk, but because of this weirdo, they ran away. She went back towards her room assuming no further discussion is needed.

Harshat also went towards a different direction, only to bump into Kashi "Oh god! That girl's face is so unlucky, I'm bumping with so many people around dammit!!" He got more angry and stomped off. Kashi just stood there with a bitter sweet smile on her face, trying to divert her mind from the kinds of thoughts she was getting.

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"What should we do?" One of the girls asked others "idk....I don't want to continue those bad classes, I always get so scared" others agreed with her "but what can we do? Only rani Tara was able to voice her thoughts, but I don't have that much courage" everyone was trying to come up with an idea to end those ridiculous classes "Should we ask Tara?"

"Ask me what?" All of them got scared as they heard a feminine voice behind them, it was Tara. "Tell me?" They all were hesitant but eventually Amba broke the silence "Tara, we don't want to do those classes anymore, can you help us?" She nodded at them "ofc I will, I don't want those classes either" but there was the problem, how will they stop the teacher?

The teacher was one of the most influencial after pratham rani, she could even suggest advices to the grand queen(Pratham rani), the grand queen was only 15 when the teacher was already handling the management and finances, later when the grand queen was eligible for maintenance of the palace, all the work was handed over by the teacher, as a result the teacher got a lot of influence and held a lot more powers than the other queens.

"We need to think of a plan together" they all sat down in a circle, thinking of ways to get rid of the teacher. Many ideas were proposed, but still none of them were good enough to execute, they took it on like a mission, mission to win against the cruel.

All were thinking hard, when suddenly Tara broke the silence "rani Vaishali, you're the princess of Talahpur right?" Rani Vaishali answered positively "Yes, why?" Tara questioned again "do you have the knowledge of your ancestral teachings?" She again responded positively "Yes..."



"Ok, listen...." the plan was soon discussed with the whole group of ranis, all agreed to go with the plan accordingly. Satisfied, Tara got up and told all the girls to return to their rooms quietly and start the preparations to execute the plan they just agreed on.

Tara smiled "ab kuch aise hoga, jisse Pratham rani khud unhe bahar fenk nikalengi".