The next morning came quickly, with Karn waking up earlier than usual admiring his beautiful blessing, think about everything she had faced, wondering what will come in their life and with that he didn't even notice her open her eye, they soon exchange their greeting, aahana feeling shy to after the stare she felt from him. They get up and karn is heading for his prayers when aahana asks to accompany him and says I too pray every morning and would like to continue with you now.

Seems like they both are the only ones awake and they head to the riverside, seeing only Mahadev's shivling aahana takes sand from the side sculpting her lord Narayan and karn mean while does his Surya pooja, soon he joins her and they both pray to Shivji and Shree Narayan, she sings a melodious song and that wakes all neighboring families who end up attending her prayers.

As she finishes and heads to do her surya pooja most villagers head back while karn waits for her to complete and as soon as that happens Suryadev appears on earth and both karn and Aahana can see him without him lowering his brightness this is shocking for him since according to him only his mortal sun (Karn) on earth should be able to see him without his brighteness being low and he doubts Aahana's identity but cannot pinpoint who she is. He however blesses the two and gifts them both a uniquely carved jewelry for Aahana it's a pair of anklets and for karn it is a chain ring. They happily accept the blessing and he then heads back. Karn helps aahana wear the ankles and she in turn makes him wear the ring.

As the couple completed their routine and decided to head back, they see all five pandavas, duryodhan, vikarn, yuytsu and ashwathama present there, they all take the blessing of the elder couple and say they had decided to give their relation a chance because they know how much all of them mean to karn. And also tell him to come to the palace with his parents and both Gandhari and Kunti are waiting to carry out the remaining rituals all after 3 hours.

Aahana and karn agree and with this all cousins head back while ashwathama stays back as he had not work for the day. He head to karns house on insistence of aahana who say that they need to complete rituals here and she want her brother with her, indicating ashwathama to follow them. On the way and at home as aahana helps radhama with all the house rituals ashwathama and aahana bond and karn I happy to see that they have a good start.

The rituals at the palace are carried out with no interruption and soon like become normal for all, the pandavas and duryodhan, Vikarna and yuyutsu all three bond well and become stronger together.

Bheem and duryodhan both practice and bond over food together and duryodhan had found more common traits with each pandavas, almost seeing how similar they are to karn. Bhishma and vidur to see duryodhan in new light. Duhassan however was not interested in bonding and accompanied his mamashree back to Gandhar and shakti was still causing trouble there, this time however Karn to was with her supporting the decision as they both knew if shakuni was left alone at Hastinapur he will influence duryodhan negatively.

Karn and Aahana both were able to take over and efficiently rule kosala and Anga, with Aahana also being able to rule Avanti well. Krishna and balram both showered their love on aahana everytime, and she would always wonder what the special relation only to remind herself it was because she is the daughter of the ayodhya royal family and hence related to the ram and Laxshman avatar of the two, however was never able to find any other answer. She was closely knitted with all the wives of the pandavas, Duryodhan, Vikarna and yuyutsu. And also close to their sister Dushala. 

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