Life Behind The Fake Masks

Celebrations were going on when the news came that the heir of Pratsinlia was born. It was today that Athena had given the King a beautiful gift by giving birth to twins whom they named Yasmine Gharisine Kaur and Inaaya Gharisine Kaur. Both the girls looked exactly the same and had powers more powerful than anyone living on the peaceful planet. But as they say "Great power comes with great responsibility", the two girls had to pay for something they were gifted. Innaya was cursed with a disease which will slowly killing her from inside and her powers would become dangerous, while Yasmine was cursed with a immediate death.

The king blamed it on Athena and asked her to keep the girls alive and look after them for it was Athena's fault, he thought. Though Athena knew it wasn't her fault but she too loved the king dearly, she agreed to his terms. She kept Yasmine alive with her magic but wasn't able to do much for Innaya. Yasmine and Inaaya loved each other more than anything in the world, they couldn't live without each other at all. But Inaaya's powers were slowly getting dangerous and she wasn't able to control them. One day her powers almost killed Yasmine and that was the day their father decided that Yasmine had to be kept safe.

He announced, in the kingdom, that Princess Inaaya passed away due to a disease. He loved Inaaya and couldn't see her sad. The king was the only one who was safe from Inaaya's powers so he played with her but Yasmine was only allowed to go near Innaya once a month. Both the girls felt that their world was taken away from them but they were completely helpless so they looked forward to their meet every month.

As Inaaya couldn't be there with Yasmine to play and spend time and Yasmine loved adventures, she started breaking rules for fun. She started sneaking out of the castle at the dead of night even though she was just a teenager. She wanted to explore everything but every time she started having a little fun, Athena used to find her then scold her and then punish her. Her father was unaware of these events as he was busy with both the kingdom and keeping Innaya a secret.

One day when Yasmine snuck out she started wandering the silent streets. She was wearing complete black clothes to hide in plain sight, her face was also covered with a cloth so no one could find out it was her. She had a small sword strapped to her dress, though she was only eight years old she very well knew how to use the sword if she got in a fight. She was humming while walking and then she forgot about the world around her as she started dancing a little, eyes closed she walked, danced and sang at the same time. When she finally opened her eyes she found that she was lost and didn't know her way back because she had been lost in her own world and lost track of where she was heading.

She walked a bit further and saw a cave there, she decided to stay inside the cave till Athena found her as usual. She waited there for an hour but no one came and because of her ADHD she couldn't sit in one place for too long. When she got up, she started pacing around the cave entrance and suddenly heard footsteps. She thought Athena had finally found her so she shouted "I am here!" the footsteps grew louder but it wasn't Athena, it was some boy taller than her by two to three inches, his face too was concealed. Her instincts screamed danger but when she turned around to run inside the cave she found two cyclops blocking her way. She immediately knew she was in a very big danger and the Cyclops will kill her.

But the boy standing behind her only grabbed her by legs and took her inside the cave, the Cyclops at his heels. They tied her upside-down and then beat her up into unconsciousness. When she woke up after a day she saw that her sword was taken away and the mysterious boy was no where to be seen either. She was starving but they didn't give her any food. She tried to free herself many times but didn't succeed. She could feel some of her bones were broken as well and wondered why hadn't they killed her yet, it seemed like they were waiting for the boy's order to kill her. After a week the boy returned with the two Cyclops and asked them to untie her. They did so and she fell down, she was unable to stand and she hadn't eaten anything in seven days now.

On the other hand, the king was searching for Yasmine since a week but couldn't find her. He had almost given up hope when he went to visit Inaaya to tell her that Yasmine was no where to be found but Inaaya herself had to tell her father something important. When she had felt Yasmine on the verge of dying last night in her sleep she was terrified. She knew her father would be in her room any minute so she waited for him and when he finally came to meet her looking very sad she almost shouted
"I know where she is! "
Her father's face brightened on the glimmer of hope he now had
"Where is she?"
"There is a cave near the abandoned market on the border of the planet. They are keeping her there. She has very little time left, please get her back safely"
Tears started rolling down Inaaya's cheek, her father told her that he will get Yasmine back to her very soon. The King and Athena along with some soldiers went to the cave. Both Athena and the King entered and the cave entrance shut down immediately. They started searching for Yasmine.

Meanwhile, the boy sat on his knees and lifted Yasmine's face and whispered in her ear.
"Now, now Princess don't worry we will end your useless life soon enough but first we have to extract all your magic from you. It will be painful so don't start crying"
He looked up to the Cyclops and they pinned her hands and legs while the boy started chanting in the ancient language but stopped suddenly. She wondered why he would stopped for a moment but then heard footsteps. Her parents appeared where she was and they quickly let her go, the boy teleported away while the Cyclops faced her parents. All it took was one swipe of her father's sword and the both the Cyclops were dead. Her parents rushed to her side and Athena teleported them to the Royal Palace. The doctors flooded in and checked her. She was given several medicines after which her father fed her lots of food about which she didn't complain at all as she was terribly hungry.

Yasmine was kept under observation for a month, her right leg had healed but her left leg's bone had been broken in two and it took a long time to heal, of course Athena could heal her in a moment but she said that she won't do it for Yasmine had to suffer the consequences of breaking the rules that are made to keep her safe.

Her father still couldn't find out who was behind Yasmine's kidnap and he wanted to keep her safe so he asked Athena for advice. "There is only one place where I know she will be safe" Athena told the king, "And where is that?" He asked her, "Camp Half-Blood in New York, Earth" She replied. The king was quite for sometime before replying, "On a different planet? We should ask her first, shouldn't we?", "Her answer will definitely be not to go" Athena countered, "Hmm, alright we send her but only for sometime alright?", Athena smiled and said, "One summer is fine". Both of them agreed and went to tell Yasmine who would definitely not like this decision.

When they entered Yasmine's room, their faces already said that there was something important they had to talk about. Yasmine hadn't healed completely yet and wasn't allowed out of her bed for long periods of time. Her father sat down on the edge of the bed and asked Athena to speak as he couldn't believe he had agreed to send her away for a whole summer on some other planet.

Athena told Yasmine that she was to go to Camp Half-Blood, Yasmine looked at her father but he shook her head. She threw a very big fit about not wanting to go, they explained to her that it was for her own safety but she wouldn't listen. "Shut your mouth girl, you are going means you are going" Athena shouted at Yasmine, the king tried to say something to Athena bit he knew his limits too, Athena was a goddess and he was a mere mortal. Yasmine started crying so her father only said to Athena, "Not today,she hasn't healed completely, let's wait for a week more"

The week passed way too fast, but Yasmine did get to visit Inaaya once but after the week ended her father couldn't do anything to stop Athena disappearing with Yasmine to some strange place.

Athena amd Yasmine arrived in front of some large, red coloured, building. Yasmine looked around a bit and the only thought in her mind was that this place was even smaller than her castle back home. Athena walked ahead gesturing for Yasmine to follow and went into some sort of office where a man sat in a wheelchair who was very surprised to see Athena over there. Athena stopped and so did Yasmine then her mother said to her, "Yasmine, meet Chiron who will help you over here and Chiron this is my daughter Princess Yasmine, she is not from this planet and has some different magical abilities besides the usual." Chiron seemed satisfied with the information and only said, "Nice to meet you Yasmine. Welcome to Camp-Half-Blood." Athena vanished from there after Chiron welcomed and Athena went back to Olympus instead of Pratsinlia.

Chiron took Yasmine to Athena's cabin where some more kids were there. He asked someone from inside the cabin to show Yasmine around but she didn't want to go and look around at that time so she told Chiron that she will look around the camp the next day and pretended to be very sleepy. He let her sleep, she didn't even get up for dinner when someone tried to wake her up she told them that she wasn't hungry and went to sleep again.

The next morning she woke up, her bed still messy and went to eat breakfast. After which she returned and found one girl staring at her because they didn't pass the inspection because of her messy bed. She didn't even care about it and got dressed. She grabbed her sword and crown and went outside. She had refused to wear the camp t-shirts and still wore her Royal clothes not caring about what others would think. Someone who was old by a year or two told her to go to the archery range and practice, she obeyed only because she had always excelled at archery during the practices she used to have back home.

Yasmine easily hit the mark everytime but she soon got bored and walked off to the lake. She started making water unicorns. She didn't knew why she had always loved making unicorns with magic. She then made the water dance around her and forgot about her surroundings as she herself got so immersed in dancing. By the time she finished and turned around, she saw all the campers staring at her.
"Are you a child of Poseidon?" Someone asked
"No, my mom is Athena" She replied and then walked away. After an hour or so somebody told her that Chiron had asked for her. She went there only to find Chiron really angry. Chiron informed her that the other campers were scared of her because of her water magic. "What other talents do you possess?" He carefully asked. "Elemental and healing powers. My father says I have more but I haven't yet learnt them." Chiron started at her in disbelieve. Then told her not to show off her other powers like she had done with water that day. She said that she will do whatever she pleases because her magic is a part of her and she won't let Chiron stop her from using it and then walked out.

After that whenever Yasmine used any of her powers Chiron would shout at her and embarrass her in front of everyone. So she started figuring out how to teleport as her father had once told her that she may have teleportation powers too. Every night she used to work a little on it and then one night when she was sure it would work, she thought herself back in her room in her castle, and teleported.

It worked! She was finally free! She ran to find her father and told him whatever that had happened. He said it was fine and now that she is back he would never let her go again.

She had started helping her father in the Kingdom's affairs. Athena had returned when the summer was over too and had told her that she was a quitter. She had taken the insults from her mother without saying a word. Things had returned back to normal and she still used to go and visit Inaaya every month.

After some days her father called for her and told her that there is a thief in the kingdom stealing very expensive things from the riches and she was to track him down. She agreed immediately after all this was her chance to do something exciting.....with permission.

Yasmine didn't need to wear a disguise as it was day time and she usually went out for a walk in the whole kingdom once in a day at least but with her guards. As this mission wasn't informed to the guards because his father suspected that someone from the guards was giving where they will be searching for the thief next so Yasmine shooed away all her guards and started gathering all the information about the thief but in a way nobody would notice that she is there to arrest the thief.

Once Yasmine figured out the thief's location she went back to the stables and flew on the Gondsalves Mountain on her pet pegasus Pixie. No one used to go on that mountain it was believed that the mountain was cursed. Once a person went there they never returned but Yasmine never feared it. When she landed on the mountain's peak, a single Mango tree stood there. She let Pixie fly back to the stables and then climbed the tree waiting for the thief to show up. She soon started eating the mangoes, they were so yummy she couldn't express it in words. After she had eaten a handful of the fruit she started rotating her dagger in her hands until she heard the sounds of wings folding and then landing. She heard the sounds of hooves, but she knew it wasn't Pixie. Without looking down she said, "Good evening, thief of the riches, Tiger."

The thief looked up to the tree and saw the princess sitting there, not even bothering to look at him. He smiled and said, "Good evening to you too dear Princess Yasmine or should i call you Cheetah?" It was then that Yasmine looked down and jumped but Tiger remained smirking. "How did you know? Nobody knew about that" Yasmine said. "You see Princess both of us do the same thing." Tiger replied. "I don't steal stuff, I only help the poor" Yasmine countered. "What a coincidence! That's exactly what I do. You see the riches of this kingdom take away the supplies provided to them by the King, so i just take it back and give it to the rightful owner" Tiger replied.

Yasmine stared at the thief and then said, "So you saw me in the night? But I was in disguise, how did you know it was me?" Kevin kept smiling before saying, "I know your sword, I have made it myself, I identified you by that". Yasmine was in shock but she managed to say, "You are from the legendary Gondsalves? Are you Kevin Gondsalves? The wish of Lord Ganesh and Lord Krishna?" Kevin merely nodded. Yasmine couldn't believe it, that she had to turn in a Gondsalves to her father but she gathered her wits back and put shackles on Kevin's hands and said, "I am taking you in. Helping or not, your method was wrong. You could have asked the King for help instead."

It was Kevin's chance to be shocked, he said, "Seriously?" Yasmine smiled and then mounted Kevin's pegasus and flew them back to the castle. Kevin had been Yasmine's hero since she had received her sword at the age of 13, she knew that both of them were of same age, Kevin was infact a few months younger and making such a wonderful sword that too one which has magic, Gods she had always wished to meet him but everytime she sent a invitation to him to come to the palace he answered no. And now that they finally met, she had to turn him in.

They reached the royal stables. A guard came ahead and took Kevin's pegasus whose name was Chetak. Yasmine lead him inside the palace, Kevin still in shackles. They entered the throne room and Yasmine bowed, Kevin did the same then gave a broad smile. The king too was surprised to see Kevin Gondsalves in shackles and was very well of his power of mind reading.

"Why is Kevin in shackles Yasmine? I had asked you to find the Tiger not him." the King said. Yasmine tensed a little and was thinking how to explain it to her father, Kevin saved her the effort as he had read ger mind, he stepped forward and said with a smile on his face, "Your Majesty, the Princess has arrested the right person. I am the Tiger but I would like to explain why I chose to steal only if you allow me to." The King gestured Kevin to say whatever he wanted to and Kevin told him the same story he had told Yasmine, though he mercifully left out the parts that included Yasmine sneaking out in the dark of night and helping the people under the name of Cheetah.Gratitude shone in Yasmine's eyes for Kevin for he did not make her talk and didn't reveal her secret even though she had arrested him.

The King was shocked at hearing what the riches were doing with the poor. One of his court members jotted down the names of all the people who were taking the provisions provided by the kingdom from the poor. He cleared his throat before announcing, "You stole for a noble cause yet you didn't inform me of this prior, my laws won't change but your years behind the bars can be reduced." Yasmine interrupted her father as she owed Kevin so much, "Kevin told me that he hates training and thinks that the guards of this kingdom aren't good enough." Kevin shot her a glance for mercy bit Yasmine only continued, "So, as he stole for a noble cause instead of putting him behind the bars won't it be better if we put him in the army so he can train and be of some use to us as well.plus it might make him realise that our guards are wonderful." The King seem to consider it and he announced when he reached his decision, "Very well! He will be under Captain Cateo and will join the Royal guard when he finishes his initial training. The decision has been made, free him of his shackles." Kevin was so surprised that he only said, "I would prefer being behind the bars instead of training. Please, put me in the cell."

Yasmine smiled trying to control her laugh but Kevin shot her a look of disgust. Unfortunately for them both their training timing clashed everytime as Cateo also used to train Yasmine. Yasmine didn't know of Kevin's power of mind reading yet and that's why she always lost to him and he grinned. She hated him as much as he hated her, they never used to talk to each other without starting a fight yet as the years went by and things started to settle a bit between them, Yasmine got to know about his powers, which made her so angry that she hit Kevin super hard in the back. How could he hide it from her? It wasn't even fair. She had thought that she wasn't good enough all these years while he had kept cheating. A daughter of Athena couldn't do much without planning, he knew and took advantage of it. He was the world's biggest cheater.

Kevin had utterly no idea how she had come to know, when he asked her she said that Athena was back and had told her after she had looked at him for a second. Her mother had returned back after nearly 50 years. They had gone from enemies to kind of friends only recently. They had been visiting the mountain where the two of them had first met and where Yasmine had kicked him real hard on his back. She had called him a lot of words most of them said something about cheating, blah..blah..blah, honestly he wasn't even listening to her rant. But when she finally stopped he told her that reading minds was both a gift and a curse as he could never stop it even if he really wanted to stop reading minds.

Just when he was trying to explain her that he didn't do it purposely a shadow caught his eyes, but he didn't paid it any attention. A big mistake he realised, he had made a very big mistake. He didn't saw it until it was standing right behind Yasmine a dagger positioned to cut her throat. Neither of them had any idea how it had snuck so close without them noticing. Kevin pushed her out of harm's way just as it came crashing down but in doing so the dagger had hit Kevin near his heart, he groaned in pain and barely saw someone killing the monster as darkness claimed him.

Yasmine had killed the monster and whistled for Airon, she hauled Kevin up and then climbed up herself. Airon flew like the wind she didn't even stop for the stables she rode him till the infirmary, she had healed as much as she could but a lot of blood had been lost, the healers started their work real fast. Yasmine just sat in the corner blaming herself for it. He had saved her life, her childhood hero jad saved her life by almost dying himself.

3 days. 3 days she sat there without eating anything. The healers told her that it had missed his heart by a centimeter. Bit when Kevin finally opened his eyes after 3 days she flung her arms around him and thanked him with a kiss on his cheek. He blushed but then waved her off, "I like you better scowling at me." "You are insufferable!" Yasmine replied.

It took some days for him to heal completely and resume training, in that time Yasmine had learnt how to fight without thinking. And when they dueled the next time, Yasmine won and she was so so happy about her victory that she couldn't stop smiling for a week. Kevin and Yasmine had become close friends after that day. They both shared their deepest darkest secrets with each other except that Inaaya was still alive. They built a tree house for them where Kevin made more magical weapons and Yasmine looked at him in awe. She learnt that the Gondsalves also had a dress shop. They didn't knew when it happened but after another 50 or so years they had started dating.

One day they were on the Gondsalves mountain when Yasmine kneeled down and proposed Kevin. Yasmine said, "Will you marry me? Will you make me your wife Kevin?" But Kevin was super hungry "Yeah fine. Now climb the tree and throw down some mangoes." Yasmine's face changed she got up and frowned at him, "I asked you to marry me! And all you can think is about mangoes?" He snarled right back, "And I said yes but my stomach is asking me to eat, if you will be so kind go get me some mangoes" "You are unbelievable!" She climbed and threw mangoes directly at his head which he caught with little ease. After eating Yasmine asked him again, "When?" "When what?" He replied. "When do we tell this to our parents and marry each other?" Kevin looked surprised, "We are marrying each other?" Yasmine angrily got up and started walking down when Kevin gripped her hand from the back, turned her around and kissed her.

They went to tell their parents after an hour. First Athena and The King, the King was really happy but he told them that it would have to remain a secret according to the tradition, they may only reveal it when they produced an heir. Both of them agreed, the King himself called Kevin's family and told them about their wedding. Kevin's family too was very happy. But there was one person who didn't like this, Athena. She told them that they shouldn't marry each other, told them that it wasn't right but couldn't do much when the wedding took place in the holy tavern near the river Aabe-Zam-Zam, couldn't do much when the King revealed that Inaaya wasn't dead. When the whole family was gathered including Inaaya their wedding took place in that holy tavern was when Yasmine and Kevin felt joy, a joy they couldn't express.

Things were awesome for the next few years, but then someone started spreading rumors of a rebellion, someone had started speaking ill of the King even when the King had done nothing wrong. But the people however didn't knew this, they started rallying forces against them. They did everything they could to keep the rebellion under bay. But when the voices kept increasing her father decided to go and talk to the people to learn why they were doing this and what could be done to avoid the aftermath of the rebellion.

Just before her father was ready to leave, Yasmine discovered she was pregnant. She ran to tell Kevin, then her father and her mother. Her father had been beyond words, he kissed her on her brow before saying farewell and went to meet the people. Yasmine waited and waited but he never returned.

As soon as the King reached the square, even before he could say something a arrow flew towards him, he sidestepped it but couldn't sidestep a volley of arrows aimed for him and his soldiers. All of them were dead within minutes.
The King had promised to Yasmine that he would return as fast as he can, so they could announce about her marriage with Kevin and of her being pregnant real soon.

Yasmine waited and waited until a head arrived wrapped in a gift box, she slowly opened it and screamed,screamed at what she saw. It was her father's head, a note with it saying that her father had been burned and only his head survived. Kevin clasped her shoulders as she wept. Her mother walked to her and hugged her, no tears were visible on her face, as she didn't care that she had lost another mortal lover, why would she care anyways? Her mother only whispered to her, "Don't do anything foolish, and Kevin take care of her and your child. I have no reason to be here anymore so i am returning back to Olympus"

Athena left them Kevin rallied the armies to stop the rebels from entering the castle. Yasmine had gone in complete mourning. She only ate for the sake of her child. The rebels didn't attack again for sometime. Two months passed until the rebels again lifted their voice. Yasmine had just come out her mourning. Kevin had gone with the other guards to handle the situations without killing anyone from the audience. Athena didn't bother to show up either, though the Book of Wisdom she had given to her once, then taken it back appeared on her birthday. Still no word from Kevin, though Yasmine knew that he was still alive for she would feel his death and nobody would dare killing him either as they all believed killing a wish of the gods is unholy and if they do so they will have to face the wrath of not one but two really powerful gods.

Her birthday was almost over, she asked the book if she should go in search for Kevin it only gave one message *Don't do anything foolish*. She closed the book, put it in her satchel with a water bottle and departed from the castle on foot. She searched and searched for Kevin but didn't find him but they found her while she was searching for him in the mountains. They launched themselves on her, nearly a hundred of them launched at her together, she kept them all at bay while one hand was on her belly protecting her child for a whole day. But even she couldn't do much against so many of them. Someone kicked her on the back and she fell face first in the rocky ground. They kicked her again and again and again until her breathing turned ragged. They left her to die just like that. She somehow managed to turn around when they left her hand hadn't lifted from her belly. She prayed to each and every god she knew to keep her baby safe.

Kevin had been captured by them after a few days. Though they didn't kill him because of that believe but they left him to starve behind bars. It was Yasmine's birthday today, he had promised to be back by that time, he was hoping that Yasmine wouldn't come searching for him. But the next day something tugged him, he had to be free, something was wrong, terribly wrong. He prayed to Krishna as when Lord Krishna had been born inside a jail the door had opened for him. So he prayed until Krishna appeared before him. The doors opened and Krishna only gave a name of one of the mountains.

Kevin rushed out as fast as he had ever run, it had been ten days now since he had felt that tug, eleven days had passed since Yasmine's 199th birthday. He ran like the wind towards that mountain. He searched the whole mountain until he saw her, bloodied and badly beaten. A hand still rested on her stomach, her eyes were closed. *No!* he thought. No, no, no. She couldn't be dead, he would have felt it if she were dead. He lifted her carefully and whistled, his pegasus Chetak came there he quickly mounted the winged horse, Yasmine a dead weight in his hands.

They flew to the castle as fast as they could. He immediately rushed to the healers. They patched up Yasmine as best as they could, but they told him that the baby, their baby didn't survive. Yasmine woke up after a whole week. He had been sitting there the whole time. As soon as she woke up she gestured at her belly and looked at Kevin who shook his head, her scream was even worse than when she had screamed when she had seen her father's head. It shook the whole palace. Kevin went near her and they both cried for days, didn't move at all until Athena bothered to come back there with a satchel Yasmine had left at that mountain.

"They have entered the palace, you must get yourselves out of here as fast as possible. I got a spaceship readied, fly to the Republic, my other daughter Mia is there, she will help you" Athena said. Athena gave that satchel back to Yasmine, hugged her and disappeared again. Kevin, his mother, his little sister Audriya and Yasmine ran as fast as they could to the awaiting spaceship. But the people had almost reached them, Audriya fell down and Kevin ran to pick her up. Kevin had told Yasmine to get the spaceship started before running to help his sister. Yasmine went inside it and activated it. But when the people closed around the spaceship and made a circle around Kevin, he contacted Yasmine using psychic power.
*"Get out of her, right now. Don't wait for us we will be fine. I will be fine but they are here for you."

"No"

"Yasmine please. I can't afford to lose you too. Please go"

"I can't leave you alone, you can teleport here but please come"

"I can't, they have put those rods around here which stop me from teleporting and my magic is weak right now, I can't teleport three people. Please go, I don't want to lose you, not after the baby...."*

Tears rolled down Yasmine's cheek but she understood, she went inside and the doors closed behind her the countdown started and soon she was away from Pratsinlia. She had to remove her crown which meant she couldn't talk to Kevin at all but she wouldn't remove it then the people will find her location and come after her, and Kevin would never want that.

She stayed on course to the Republic, she hadn't eaten anything since a week as she was still in mourning. She couldn't believe that she had miscarriaged their kid because of her reckless behavior... After another week in space she saw the planet Greco. She decided to land there as Athena had informed her that she will find her half sister over there. She got permission to land and settle there. She started living in a place named Yasville. It had already been a week over there, but she didn't even bother to go out of that cozy villa.

After some more days, she decided to take a walk on the planet. The planet was magnificent, with tall statues every where of the Emperor. The weather was pleasant but little did she knew that her world was going to change again. On her way back she came across a traveller who introduced herself as Aelin queen of Terrasen, which Yasmine had learnt was in Erilea. She knew all about Aelin's life because she had read the book in Pratsinlia's enchanted library. Each and every important book that had once been written down found it's way to the enchanted library, but history books continued on their own as soon as something major happened.

Even though Yasmine knew about Aelin's life, she thought not to mention it as it might feel weird, she decided to give Aelin the time to trust her with the truth herself. On her way back to Yasville, she was talking with Aelin and showing her magic. She had made a little water unicorn but at suddenly she started shivering. Yasmine fell down and started zipping across the ground. She started flying up in the air and fell down again. A little blood oozed from her head. Out of nowhere a strange creature appeared and started comforting her. Soon she felt better and lied to Aelin saying she was fine. She went inside Yasville and immediately wrote a letter to Mia as her mother had asked her to. The next day, Mia came to Yasville.

"Hello Mia, I am Yasmine and i am also a daughter of Athena."

"Hi Yasmine, is there something important you wanted to tell me?"

Yasmine told Mia that Athena had asked her to come here and meet her. She told Mia that she was to be crowned the Queen of Pratsinlia, she told Mia that there had been a rebellion and some people were still after her. They may attack the Republic if they trace her presence here. She asked Mia to not kill anyone from her planet if they come here, she lied that she had a plan. Mia gave yasmine her Raptor's cap that would make her invisible and in exchange Yasmine gave Mia the book of knowledge because Athena had told her to do so. Mia told Yasmine that she was there to help her if needed. Yasmine said that she had got this and Mia left soon after.

-Prarthana Modi