His Queen

Chapter 18

Nihal Jaan’s POV

I had a long day, I had trained the new recruits and sorted out the best to train them as special bodyguards of the king, these were the best and their level of training was different and much more vigorous than the other soldiers, they were used for secret missions and the security of the royal family was their top priority.

When I had first joined the army, I had been reluctant to join but Humair had persuaded me, he had told me that the army was the perfect for me, I had joined trusting only his words.

On my first day, I was surprised to see that Humair had also been part of the new recruits, the commander had trained us and later separated us, and somehow I felt better and not so lost with Humair as part of the new recruits.

I had wondered why the prince of Atrabad as joining the army at that time, I had expected that he would have trained in the army all his life, it was long after that I found my guess had been right, he had indeed trained in the army all his life and at the time had been one of the most skilled warriors in the kingdom, when I had confronted him on the matter, he had told me that he had felt like remembering the feeling of been a recruit again.

It was a funny story how Humair and I had met, I had been walking on the street and suddenly there was a fight, it was a fight between some street thugs and a man I remembered as Kazeer, he was a shop owner and a very kind man, so I couldn’t stand back and watch as they bothered him.

I jumped into the squabble without thinking that I was outnumbered, they were a total of 7 thugs and it was just me, it was until I stood facing them that I realized I had acted without thinking, I was thinking about how I was to fight them all when a young boy of about my age joined me, I looked at him, he was dressed in a way that told me he was of noble birth, he gave me a smile and charged towards the thugs ,with a smile, I also jumped into the fight.

It was a long and tiring fight but finally we were victorious, I and Humair had stood proudly as we watched the street thugs run off, when they were gone, Kazeer had thanked us profusely, the feeling was exciting and I felt proud of myself.

Humair had asked me to come to the palace, he had told me that people like us where needed in the army,