Chapter 66: Karna brought Sudama's body to Padma!!!

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Story Unfolds:

At the Royal Court of kampilya of north Panchal:

A man was now seen sitting on the floor absentmindedly. Clutching the lifeless body of a young boy of six. He was not saying anything yet his eyes were blurred in tears. His brain was not working now. It had stopped!!! The time had stopped too. Along with him!!! So also the chaos in the royal court!!! A Young at Death at last could be able to calm the furious masses!! But with what cost?!!! His young life!!!

He had once uttered a sentence in pain. Still then he did not utter any other single word. It was said that a person cried in little pain, while in great shock or agony he could become like a stone!!! It happened with him too!! He sat like a stone!!! His face was stony yet his mind was racing fast. He was thinking of the first encounter of him with Sudama. He saved the boy that day!! How happy he looked!! How relieved he was to see his father!!! How he always worshiped him like a God!! How he initiated also to be an archer like his father Karna!!! How he loved to roam around him and peep to him from the trees!!! Out of boyish curiosity!!! How he loved to go with him in the shore of Ganges!!! To pay tribute to his grandfather the Sun God or Surya Dev along with him!!! How he demanded to bring a new mother for him so that Padma could not scold him!!! And now see at his face!!! He was out of the reach of Karna or even Padma!! None could ever scold him anymore!!! How he demanded to come with him here!!! To see a new city!!! Why he accepted the demand?!! How he was seen cheering for Karna a minute ago!! His cheerings were still ringing in his eardrum repeatedly

"Baba!! Baba!!! (Father!! Father!!)"

And now look at him!! He would not cheer in his life!!! For anyone!!! Cat had got his tongue!! He had become silent forever!!! He would not hug him anymore!!! He would not smile at him anymore!!! He would never ever expect that his father would protect him anymore!!! With his own life he had ended the myth!!! Karna again had failed!!! He did not failed in the Swayambar!!! He failed to save his own son!!! From the evil clutches of cruel death!!!

He closed his eyelids slowly. Tears now threatened to fall down. He did not know how to stop them. Let them fall!!! He lost Sudama!!! He lost his passion for living!!!! Again!!!

 Let them fall!!! He lost Sudama!!! He lost his passion for living!!!! Again!!!

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Crying Karna

The men around him got scared for him. What would he do now?!! All knew that the anger of Karna would tell down on them. At any time now.

Yuddi looked at his direction with sad eyes. He tried to reach to Karna but Lord Krishna stopped him. At the same time Duryodhan glared at him coldly. He bit his lips hard and obliged to both of them. He knew that at this time of this pain he could only make Karna more enraged!!!

Arjuna was standing lowering his face. He was not responsible for this massacre. But he could not forget it that he was the Person who helped the boy to reach the first row!! If he did not do that, the young Boy would not die like this!! He was too guilty for his death!! He recalled how the boy smiled brightly at him every time!!! He even addressed him as "Kaka" or uncle!!! Tears were rolling down his cheeks too. But he tilted his head to the left. To hide it!! Alas!! This boy did not know that he himself would have to destroy most Karna sons!! In the war of Mahabharata!!! That proud Arjuna was far from this young naive Arjuna!!!

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