If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

-Gita Shlok

While the night outside is filled with silence like dead there is a very strong storm going inside that close doors of the chamber of fire born empress of the illusionary Indraprastha. Nothing is in the right state of itself like earlier everything is broken in pieces of shreds. From bed to artifacts or the luxurious paintings hanged on the wall. Her room was one of the most dazzling rooms of the whole palace till yesterday but now it's nothing else than an example of destruction. In the middle of the destroyed room, the glorious Panchali is seated trying to find her broken parts in the mess.

She can feel every moment going outside her room but she is so broken from inside that she can't collect herself to let someone come near her. This room is a visible representation of her concise. She knew when her husband arrived. She can also feel the torment of her twin after all they both came from the same fire. She also felt the divine peace that is brought by the illusionary Dwarka princess. There is a very kind of comfort and peace imamates from the aura of this both brother and sister duo which she never found in anyone else ever. She never got a chance to meet the godly queen of Dwarka but she is sure that if Krishna calls her the source of his every emotion and Arjun mentions her as the most beautiful woman on earth then she must be divine.

Right now she felt envious of each woman present on the earth as they all possess something which she almost lost that is her honor. She can still feel Dusaasan's hand on her hair, those evil eyes on her body when he was trying to disrobe her. Those malicious words and laughter of the whole court are ringing in her ears. She is burning in the fire of revenge. She wants the heads of every man present in that court lying at her feet. There is a reason she closed that gate like the gate of her heart. She doesn't want her fire to hurt her kids or that innocent girl who loves her. Neither she wants to make her brother angry nor did she want to face her husbands who failed to protect her. She remained sitting still in the same position for hours but the fire inside her kept rising with each passing minute. Then all of a sudden she felt relief like the first rain on a hot summer day. She doesn't need any explanation about the source of her relief. There is only one person on the entire earth right now whose mere presence can change the whole course of events. Her chain of thought broke when the voice of the divine Dwarkadheesh fell in her ear asking to open the door. She dragged her feet to open that large sandalwood door. There is no use in keeping it close because he may need the open door to come inside the room but her heart already opened her door to let him in. She opened it a little only to let him in. She is still not ready to face anyone else not till when she got a few answers.

"Why Govind? Why me" The first word came out her mouth when Krishna looked at the condition of her and her room.

"That whose purpose is great has to go through the toughest of struggles. You will be an example of change how you thought your struggles will be easy."

"But what about my honor. I am impure now how will I got my purity ever?"

"Sakhi we throw dust and dirt in Ganga but does it affect her purity? No, someone else impurity doesn't affect the purity of Mata Ganga. Demons every time try to get Adi shakti does it affect her purity in any way? No, she is the epitome of purity and so are you. No one can snatch your purity. You are pure and will remain as one. And about your honor prepare yourself Sakhi and motivate your husbands; your honor would be avenged. The whole world will see that when a woman is wronged that is the beginning of a Mahabharata. Your insult will cause the biggest Dharmayudh of Aryavrat." The fire born finally found relief after hearing Krishna's words. But his next word caught her off guard.

"But before all of this, I want to you forgive everyone who wronged you or those who were present in that hall at that time." She looked at him shocked at his words.

"What are you saying Madhav? I will never forgive any of them. How come you expect them?"

"To start the cycle of Karma and divine justice first a human has to forgive those who wronged them. Until when you won't forgive them their cycle of this Karma won't end and the cycle of its result won't start. If you want justice served by the divine you have to let go of this only then their acts would be considered complete and then the cycle of justice will start."

"Fine Madhav I am forgiving all of them and their actions and giving the command is in Narayan's hand. He will do them justice now." Krishna gave his mysterious smile at her words.

They were about to forward their conversation further when the faint knocking on the door fell in their eyes. Suddenly realization struck Draupadi hard she is inside for hours and her kids must be worried. She knew that Subhadra will handle them as she is doing it for years but what about her little warrior. He never sleeps without her no matter what Subhadra does to please him but he found peace only in her lap.

"Madhav we will talk later looks like my little warrior is here. He won't sleep without me. Subhadra would scold him for his stubbornness. I will see him let's go." She rushed towards the door and find her brother standing there holding her little warrior close to her heart and Subhadra was approaching them. Abhimanyu forwarded his hand towards her to hold him when his eyes fell on her. She was about to take him when a maid approach them and informed them that Yudhishthira kept his hands in the fire and not listening to any of his brother's pleading. Both the Dwarka brother and sister looked at each other without speaking a word. But this silence is not quite a whole conversation that happened between both. Their trance broke when Dhrishdyumna complemented in wonder that they don't need words to talk to each other. Subhadra signed a maid to take her son from there and rushed towards the hall with all of them.

In the hall, Yudhishthira put his both hand in fire guiltily while his brothers are pleading him to not do this. They were busy in this unaware of this surrounding when the shocked voice of their common voice fell in their ears. They turned to find both fire born along with the divine brother-sister standing there. While both fire born are shocked Krishna has a neutral expression and Subhadra is blank with the unfolding of the events. Somehow along with her brother, she started to realize where everything is leading and what is following them soon. All the four Pandavas standing there with hanging heads. Arjun is stealing glances towards his wife in between trying to decipher her state of mind looking at her blank face. When Krishna chastised them for staking their wife and not try to protect her Draupadi motivated them to avenge her honor. By hearing about her sister's insult Dhristadyumna's anger reached its peak. He was about to question all the Pandavas when Krishna signed him to remain quiet. He kept quiet with difficulty while he felt broken and sad that when his sister needed him the most he wasn't there for her, guilt was eating him from inside. While Subhadra felt she lost all her strength suddenly she held the nearby table for support after listening to all this. After a point, she stops deciphering what anyone is speaking or doing. She was standing with the support of the wall physically but mentally she was gone from there long ago.

Meanwhile, Draupadi pledged that she will keep her hair open as a symbol of her insult. She will tie her hair only when she will wash it with the blood from Dusaasan's chest and wear her chudamani after she sees the dead bodies of everyone who wronged her. After all, this commences everyone retired towards their wing of the palace. The illusionary palace of Indraprastha has seven wings connected by this hall like a lotus flower. Five wings are for the mighty five Pandavas while the sixth wing is for their common wife. Each Pandavas in their year would spent time with her in her wing instead of their own. She remains in her wing and never go live in their wing to avoid any kind of conflict. The seventh wing was for the guests. Today, after this dreadful everyone decided to, spent their last night alone in their wing to find some solitude. Krishna and Dhri left towards the guest wing. Everyone drowned in their miseries failed to notice the poor girl who sat lifeless on the ground leaned to the wall holding the feet of the table for the support, lost somewhere and the three pair of innocent eyes filled with horror realizing the intensity of the situation. She reained sitting like this when she felt two pair of small hands encircled her petite form from two sides holding her close to their heart while the third sit in her lap encircle her waist in his tiny arms drawing comfort from her. She caresses the cheeks of her two innocent kids and the hair of the third one. The three elder sons of Draupadi whom she may not gave birth to but rose like her own. For them to she is their first mother their choti ma. After some time passed she realized they are sleepy so she took them with her to tuck them in bed hugging and pecking their forehead one by one. She assured them through her eyes and her touch that their world is safe yet and she will keep it intact.

Their parents might be leaving for exile but their mother is still with them. They will never lose her. After making sure that the kids have slept she left for.....................

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