Rudra's POV:
I walked in, once again, into Vijaygarh's Palace with Karan who seemed to be extremely excited about returning. Dev walked up to me, beaming happily, he had grown his beard a bit and did look older. He pulled me in an embrace looking overwhelmed with joy.
"You were really missed Rudra.", he said as he let go of me and then glaced at Karan with the typical dialogues of how much he had grown.
I looked around in the house. It was still the same, beautiful sofas, sunlight pouring in. Nothing had changed at all.
" Come, let's go in.", Dev said as I and Karan followed him in.
" You know Karan, ", he begun, " We have a birthday party this evening. I wished you could accompany me.", I looked at Dev who merely glanced only towards Karan so that he didn't have to meet my eyes.
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