Aahanna then comes forth and makes a promise " I did not plan on taking over and was only fulfilling my guru dakshina and it seems like this was destiny. So today as I take up the post of Samragi, I promise you all that I will serve you all dedicatedly, always follow dharma and ensure that no subject in the kingdom is ever faced with injustice. May the tridev and tridevi's and all the devta's above us be a witness to my promise and give me strength to fulfill it."

And after her oath she added " my life is a mystery to me as well, while I believe in full transparency I also promise to share every part of my life henceforth with you all. All the subjects of this kingdom will be my family and I will wholeheartedly serve you all. I however can only mention that I am a married woman. I will not mention my husband since now is not the time. And also cannot share anything of my past with you all. I hope with time you all can accept me as I am right now and will give me a chance to serve you all as your queen. "

With this most of the people seemed satisfied, a few wanted to protest against a female ruling them but they had seen her might and did not want to underestimate her. while she called Girivar and jaivant and said that she will not move in the kingdom until all the homes in this kingdom are settled and also asked him to take rajmata to the palace as she should be well rested and taken care of.

Pallavi who heard her said she would rest and take care of herself but wants to move into the palace with her daughter and no one should have an objection to this. With this all started with the work of renovating all houses that were destroyed. Aahanna as Queen Avantika appointed a few ministers from those who were gathered by the three men and shared her idea of having common communities for each group of people as in elders, working men, women and children she also made rules to abolish caste system.

She then went forward and asked a few strong men along with Girivar Jagrav and Jaivant who were satisfied with her and accepted her as their queen, showed them plans of rebuilding the kingdom starting with the outermost section where few of the commoners lived. And showed them all these plans with a detailed explanation of how she wants them to make all houses almost level and that some of the empty space will be a school for children, and one place for a medical facility and asked the men to get started as she addressed the soldiers who had been knocked out

The soldiers were brought to senses by her arrows which completely neutralized the evil power over them and gave all of them strength to get up. She started by stating she had defeated akhrot and rajmata wished for her to be queen as she had earned the post. The soldiers who hear of all this as they got conscious were shocked surprised and hesitant to be ruled by a female, the less positioned soldier who had trusted jaiwant before all pledged alliance with the queen as they knew that if Girivar,Jagrav, Jaiwant and their queen all were accepting her then there would be something special about her.

While a few stronger ones decided they don't want a woman to rule them they came forward and challenged her saying a woman is too weak to rule and they do not accept her. Few men from the crowd joined the soldiers. This seems to interrupt the working men. While Jaivant comes forward to help her, Aahanna tells all of them that she will deal with this they should continue with their work.

With this Aahanna asked them to challenge her with any problem and if she is unable to solve even one, she will herself step down and appoint whoever they choose. Rajmata Pallavi interrupts asking her how she can do this while she replies " a royal's foremost duty is not only to rule or protect the kingdom, but to also be trusted by all the subjects so that the whole kingdom can progress and prosper.

With this all soldiers, educated commoners who had joined the soldiers ask her multiple questions from all fields of business, agriculture, dharma, shastra, weaponry among many others. She had successfully satisfied most of them with her answers and as most of the supported left the main soldier (Ahima) and went to help all the other men working on developing the kingdom Ahima got angrier and when he was the only one left his anger had no bound and he spoke harsh and cruel words towards Aahanna.

He had no respect in his tone, as he continued to hurl word defaming, and accusing Aahanna of black magic, and called her a witch. This angered all the other who had seen her save them from the devil Akhrot and this time they all stopped and were coming forward to beat Ahima up. They stopped Aahanna's action and unwillingly got back to their work. Aahanaa patiently waited for Ahima to calm down and asked what proof he had, he gave no reply and only stared in anger.

Aahanna now spoke that he may have misunderstood, and she is giving him one more chance to apologize and give her a chance to rule them, and with this she was moving towards the men who had been working. As she left, she once again said if you still cannot accept me, you are free to leave, Ahima felt insulted that a woman is now controlling what he should do and blinded in rage he grabbed his sword and marched towards her. Rajmata and a few others saw him moving and they got scared and they looked towards Aahanna.

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