Kadupul

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"It's A..Alisha." I stutter. I feel like I'm in his trance. I Just can't seem to look somewhere else. As if he's some kind of a magnet and I'm an metal.

Is it even Normal???

I don't know. But whatever this is, it's beautiful.

"Alisha". He repeats and my name never sounded so Heavenly.

And by heavenly I mean actual heavenly.

Princes and Princesses in our kingdom are actually the beings of heaven.

I hear footsteps.

The hall was empty so if there was someone walking, then I heard his footsteps. I definitely did heard something.

And I guess even prince Ambrose did that's why he released my hands from his grip.

"I'll see you around Alisha" and he sounded confident.

It's not like I didn't wanted to see him, it's just.....the way u reacted in front of him. How could I even think for a second that I would be anything to someone like prince but I still felt things for him and I did not ignore the look on his face too. When he heard my name , the way he acted, the way his face muscles changed , I noticed.

And I don't know what I feel.

You know when you sometimes get this feeling when you think you know nothing but you actually do know something. It's that.

I enter my tent.

Sophie and Jess asked together" where were you ?" They were worried. Why wouldn't they be. I practically vanished.

" Yeah I'm okay". I assure them.

I sit on the chair next to the table and they sit beside me.

" What happened Alisha?" Jess asked me.

" Are you okay?" Sophie asked.

" Yes Sophie I'm okay and what happened Jess was ....... That I ... No...the prince Ambrose met me " I started.

And told them everything. From when I was scared of someone k********g me yo feeling safe in his arms. I told them everything and they were obviously surprised.

"So why do you think he came to meet you ?" Sophie asked .

"That's the whole point Sophie. I don't know.

I mean I'm a nobody. I'm just a normal girl whose father is a farmer. And I don't think people from palace knows my dad, he never goes out. So I have no idea why did he wanted to know my name ". I panicked.

You guys must be thinking that he just asked me my name , what's the big deal. It is actually. I say our kingdom is the most happening place on the earth but there are rules to it too. Princes and Princesses are not allowed to talk to public for some reason, only kings and queens can do that. So yeah if he broke the law and talked to me, then there's something. But then if they are here with us in this training camp then they obviously would talk to us otherwise how would they teach us anything.

This makes sense now. Maybe they can talk to us here .

the next lecture was to tell about the history and for.... I don't know what reason I had a feeling that this lesson isn't gonna go the way I want it to.

you guys must be thinking that I overthink a lot and that's true too. but I've never been this restless in my whole life.

since the second I got to know that this time it's my chance from my family to come to this training camp, I haven't slept comfortably.

I feel like I'm going towards a path in my life where everything I believe is gonna change,

my trust, my morals are gonna get compromised.

or maybe it's just anxiety.

we were all present in the lab where there were posters of our previous kings and queens , our brave soldiers and the weapons they must of used.

i was looking at each and every picture then u saw a painting on the left side of hall. painting of a fairy , placing the fairy potion in a flower. I've never seen that flower before. it's white - yellow flower , almost like moon.

" good morning everyone" said Waldo again.

" so you had your share of rest , now it's time to work."

" Wyatt here . my brother. is the one whose gonna teach you history" he added while looking towards Wyatt who's again looking at my direction ....why would he though. he isn't.

after announcing our teacher, Waldo left the hall to Wyatt.

"ahm ahm" he clears his throat.

" before learning how to fight, you should know who you're fighting for. Every one of you here is here for some reason. some wanna join the force, some wants to join the palace and some of you are here for yourselves. and if someone's here who doesn't know why he's here , I guess shouldn't be here. " he gives a look to some people around here, maybe he knows they're the one who doesn't know why they are here.

me ? I'm here to learn fighting to protect my family and to give them a happy and safe life , so that I could work as an warrior to protect the queen. this is the highest and proudest level of career a girl can have in our kingdom.

" let's start with how this kingdom was formed. everybody here knows we're the ones who protects the fairy potion.

but does anybody knows what a fairy potion is ?.

it's a cure for humanity. " he practically announced it.

everyone was in shock. cure for humans. what does that even mean ?.

" cure for humanity means cure of death. if somebody drinks it , he never dies. it's a cure for mortality. you would never die if you drink it."

he adds.

everyone started talking how this could be possible and if it's possible then they should drink it. and murmuring started talking get loud.

then Wyatt interrupted the noise to continue.

" I know you people are thinking that everyone should drink it. but it's side effect is that whoever drinks it cannot reproduce. so you're gonna stay with eachother only. you cannot start a family, you cannot have your kids , you cannot be parents and then one day you'll realise that living like this is a fate worse then death.

but every once in a while there has to be a person who needs to drink so that the potion could be regenerated. and nobody knows who that person is." he informed.

" that's the reason why the fairy queen as you can see in the poster is putting the potion in that flower. that flower is called the queen of night or kadupul.

it takes an complete year to bloom and fades in a matter of hours. it cannot be picked without causing damage to it. it's a legendary flower . in different mythologies, it has different meanings and uses. In our it's that it protects the fairy potion and that we the people of our kingdom needs to protect it only for some hours it has bloomed and it is believed that during that time that one person who is chosen to rejuvenate it touches the flower and then it starts to vanish. "

and when he said that one person, he looked at me.

am I that person?

I can't be.

I literally need to sleep properly. I'm having hallucinations.

but I don't understand one thing in this story.

why just by touching the flower it rejuvenate? what's the logic??.

" it absorbs one year of his life to be reborn again" he answers as if he read my mind.

what?????....

everybody started whispering to eachother. This can't be happening.

"then why would he even touch it ?? why give up your life ?" someone from the crowd asked the same question that everyone had in their minds.

" because he believes that it's his reason to be born here . .... this is just what I've heard, I have never myself seen kadupul or that person. my job is the protect it no matter what and I don't question it , neither should you". Wyatt concluded.

" so here ends today's lesson. well I sometimes do wonder if I'm good at story telling but now looking at you people I guess I am ". he jokes and everybody laughs.

even if it wasn't funny , we had to.

not to be rude or something.

we were dismissed but just like everyone I had questions and doubts tooo...Nd the most important doubt was Wyatt is a prince , he said he doesn't know anything but stories, I still don't find it satisfying. he protects the Kingdom's one door, how can it be possible of him not knowing who he is protecting because according to stories protecting kadupul is same as protecting the kingdom.