It was night time, Arjun was gazing at the stars in deep thinking. After the questionnaire session, he has been missing his previous life too much.

He was recalling his days of glory where he was deemed as the greatest archer in the three worlds. His hands were getting itchy as though they craved to hold a bow again.

Arjun looked above him, and his eyes settled on a branch which gave him an idea. He looked around and found a sharp rock. A smile appeared on his face.

Arjun grabbed the sharp rock and climbed the tree, he got hold of that branch and breaks it off. After sitting comfortably on top of the tree, carving out a bow from that branch.

With the lips parted in a small smile, his tongue stuck out a little as his entire focus was on shaving the excesses of the branch.

It took him a good while but the a decent bow had been carved out from the branch. Arjun looked at it with great admiration, it wasn't as expensive and intricate like his other bows but it was a bow, which he had picked up after years.

He remembered his childhood days and Gurukul time when he would make his own bow so it suits his way of archery. But something was missing, the string ! Without it the bow wouldn't be functional.

He looked at the tree and saw several twines hanging from it.

"That can work." Arjun muttered.

He plucked a few, intertwined them together and then tied to the ends of the body of the bow. And his Dhanush was completed to his great pleasure.

Arjun looked around and his eyes landed on another tree in front of him, which had a small hole over its bark. He pulled the string of his bow, chanted a mantra, summoning an arrow and aiming it at the hole.

He let's go of the string and the arrow hits its target perfectly. Arjun chuckled that even after years his aim was still intact with all its glories.

He started gazing around the entire hill and began shooting wherever he could find a target. It gave him immeasurable pleasure doing archery once again.

Arjun was so overjoyed that he didn't realise that the sun had arisen. He got to know that it was morning when the jingling of anklets fell on his ears.

'Oh it's morning already ?' He thought seeing the figure of Syamantaki coming over the hill. A silly plan crossed his mind, as he climbed to a higher branch of the tree so she cannot see him.

And he was successful as she looked around and wasn't able to locate him. A frown appeared on her face, as she looked around.

'He should be right here after completing his morning prayers.... Where did he go ? Did he venture higher in the Himalayas to perform more penance after missing his family too much ? Arjun would do anything to achieve his goal as soon as possible to go back to Indraprasth....' She thought getting worried.

But to increase her confusion, her eyes fell on several arrows, some on trees, others between rocks. They were all over the hills.

'What happened here ? Where is he ?' She wondered while walking beneath a tree, over which Arjun was standing and controlling his giggles.

"Tapasvi !" Syamantaki called. And at that he jumped down the tree scaring the hell out of her as she screamed backing away.

"You got scared !" Arjun said in a song song manner as she calmed down seeing him.

"So the grumpy Tapasvi is not always grumpy ?" She said as a smile appeared on her face seeing him laugh after so long.

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A/N

Yeh Syamantaki thi toh chal gaya.... Mere haatho se instinctively thapad pad jata 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Waise this is chapter 55 and the last time Arjun smiled was in chapter 33.... 22 chapters baad hasa apna hero !