Yatee : Rise of an Empress

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Ten days past by ...
Every day, Chandrashekhar along with others left the Ashram and went to search for Yatee near the cave which Kartik found days ago. That cave had scriptures which depicted information about Ajinkyapur and Nadiabaad, but in code. They had belief that those were made up Yatee. They felt that if they succeeded in deciphering the code, they will reach upto Yatee.

Their view, but one day, changed as Srikanta gave some information from the Ashram....

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"What happened Kanta ? You seem like some thought is disturbing you..." Ramchandra said as he entered their cottage late in the night.

"I don't know why, but the Acharya's daughter, Uma Devi, seems to be differently familiar..." Srikanta said as she sat besides Ramchandra.

"Means ? Speak in a lucid way..."

"We haven't met her much in past ten days... She's always in the temple, performing Puja of Goddess Bhavani, since the festival of Navratri has started. But I feel, she is someone, dear and near to us, a long lost relative..." Srikanta said as she remembered the few moments she was near Uma Devi.

"Don't worry. You feel like so because we are searching for Yatee since ten days. Keep calm. You take some rest. We have a huge festival tommorow morning of Dussehra, right ?" Ramchandra said as Srikanta nodded.

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Uma Devi was a mysterious women in Shanti Nagar. No one knew her past, her relatives. All they knew was that she lost her loved ones in a war. She never spoke about her past.
Since Navratri had begun, she spent her entire day in the temple, praying to the Goddess Bhavani. She had a strict fast and only thing she did was perform Puja.
She never bothered about herself. She gave her entire dedication to improvement of the village. She even had started women empowerment in the village. She had started to educate women and help them to find a way out of their problems.
She was a trusted person in the village, but someway, somehow, none of the ladies came with Chandrashekhar had met her thoroughly and hadn't trusted her yet.

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"Aabasaheb, how was today's search at the cave ?" Lalita asked as she offered water to her father and brothers who were tired due to roaming around in the forests all day long.

"Nothing productive, my child. Maybe, tommorow we will find something." Chandrashekhar said as he patted her head.

"Aabasaheb, Aabasaheb !!" Two boys came running inside the cottage holding a piece of paper.

"What happened Atharva ?" Chandrashekhar asked as he settled the boys.

"We were able to decipher one of the codes. Atharva had copied it down on a paper and he was able to crack the code language." Kartik said as Atharva spread the sheet on the floor.

Lalita held the oil lamp besides the paper. Chandrashekhar and Atharva sat in front if the huge paper and Kartik pointed out to the specific drawing mage by Atharva with the help of his spear.

"Look Aabasaheb, here the one who had given this code, has drawn a family of four. But if we closely observe it, one of the members is drawn distant from other three. It seems that they have a dispute in them. But another interesting fact is that they seem to stand under the flag of Nadiabaad but are outside the temple, belonging to Hindu religion. Mostly, people from Nadiabaad are born Islamic or are forcefully converted to be Islamic by religion. It's surprising that they are outside a Hindu temple." Atharva said as Chandrashekhar closely observed that image.

"Look below the temple. It shows some lines there..." Lalita said as she took the spear from Kartik's hand and pointed out towards the lines drawn there.