A lone shadow was creeping around the exits of agra palace...the palace was heavIly guarded specially after the escape of mirza hakim...there was a danger to the shehenshah's life and atgah saheb was very vigilent with his security measures...no man could come in and go out of the palace undetected...in such situations what do i do now...how do i break the security and go out to complete my work...i somwhow got to know about shehenshah's plan to go to the agra bazaar today in disguise with his soldiers so i decided to accompany them...after all who would suspect me in a man's disguise...never thought i would have to don this garb ...yuck...but this is a necessary evil...for great work ,even greater risks have to be undertaken...so disguised as a portly old man i made my way out with the shehenshah and his men and entered agra baazar undetected...MISSION ACCOMPOLISHED...----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MIRZA HAKIM was dressed as a marvarhi sweet shop owner looking to sell food items...he had taken over a retail shop of a friend and was waiting to meet her...his eyes were eagerly searching for her...why isnt she here till now...i have to make a plan to get close to her soon...mirza's eyes fell on atgah sahib escorting two palkis with a flank of soldiers ,he was pretty confident he would not be found out,after all his disguise left no one in any doubt that the sweet shop owner is actually the on the lose criminal of the mughal sultanate ,the shehenshah's brother...salima and jodha asked for the palkis to be put down...they dint want to waste even a minute of their valuable time...salima first got out of the palki with rahim and finally jodha stepped out...mirza was truly happy...he had been waiting for such an opportunity and finally had got one...jodha out of reach of jalal...here amist so many people..if something went wrong here no one would be able to point fingers at him...i have to make use of this allah given opportunity mirza decided...
salima along with jodha made way to look over all the stalls that had been put up...there were stalls of beautiful intricate artificial jewelry ,food stalls,game stalls for kids even stalls for regular things required in everyday life...jodha and salima were making there way to the jewellery stall when atgah sahib came up to them...
AS-SALIMA BEGUM,JODHA BEGUM HUM BHI APKE SAATH CHALENGE...SHEHENSHAH KA HUKUM HAI...
SB-AREY NAHI ATGAH SAHIB,HUMEIN KUCH NAHI HOGA...HUM CAHTE HAIN KI AAP JAHAN HAIN VAHIN RAHIYE..HUM BAS MELA KA LUFT UTHA KAR JALDI AA JAYENGE...
AS-MUAFF KIJEYEGA BEGUM SAHIBA,SHEHENSHAH NE...
SB-HUM JANTE HAIN KI SHEHENSHAH NE AAPSE KYA KAHA THA ATGAH SAHIB ISLIYE KEH RAHE HAIN KI HUMEIN ACCHE SE MELE KA LUFT UTHANE DIJEYE...AAP LOG HAIN NA YAHAN HAMARI SURAKSHA KE LIYE...YAHIN RAHIYE...YEH HAMARA HUKAM HAI...
AS(after some hesitation)-THEEK HAI BEGUM SAHIBA,JAISA AAP CAHEIN...MAGAR AAP JAHAN JAYENGI HUM APKE PEECHE THODI DUR CHALENGE...LEKIN HUM APKO APNI ANKHON SE OJHAL NAHI HONE DE SAKTE...
SB-THEEK HAI ATGAH SAHIB,JAISA AAP CAHEIN...
salima and jodha along with rahim first went to the jewellery store...jodha had always been fond of artificial jewelry and in amer had a huge collection of small trinkets collected over the years...when ever her brothers used to go out she used to request them to bring a trinklet back for her mostly in the form of an artificial jewelry...she used to keep some for herself and the rest she gifted to moti or her other dasi friends...seeing jodha so facinated with the fake ornaments salime couldnt help but ask her...
SB-JODHA BEGUM,AAPKE PAAS TOH ITNE NEYAB HEERE MOTI AUR DUSRE GEHNEIN HAIN...APKO YEH GEHNE KYUN ACCHE LAGTE HAIN...
JODHA-JI WOH JAB HUM CHOTE THEE TOH APNI SAHELIYON KO MELE JATE DEKHTE THEE AUR VAHAN SE ITNE SUNDAR ABHUSHAN LE KAR AATE THEE WOH SAB..TAB SE HUMEIN INKA SHAUK HAI...MANTE HAIN HAMARE PAAS ASLI GEHNEIN HAIN MAGAR YEH BHI TOHGEHNEIN HI HAIN NA..KUCH HUM APNI PASAND KE LIYE RAKHTEIN HAIN AUR KUCH APNI SAHELIYON LE LIYE LE JATE HAIN..MOTI,REVA KO YEH BAHUT PASAND HAIN...
SB-ACCHA MATLAB AAP APNI DAASIYON KE L IYE YEH SAB KHAREDTI HAIN...
JODHA-DASIYAAN NAHI SALIMA BEGUM,WOH HAMARE SAATH BACHPAN SE HAIN...ISLIYE HAMRE LIYE WOH HAMAR SAKHI HAIN...
after buying everything that she needed jodha then proceeded to check out the rest of the mela...mirza had been patiently waiting for jodha to come to his stall...he would then execute his master plan...light fire to a bunch of dried twigs and the smoke thus produced would be sufficient cover to whisk jodha away from here...atgah sahib and his men would not be able to do anything...no one would be able to see anything let alone dechiper what was happening...it was time...
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ruqaiyya could not believe that she had been successful in fooling jalal and his men...they think they are too smart...yeah right...not only did i get out undetected but after killing jodha i will finally get back in the palace yet undetected...jalal apni khaas begum ko tadapta hua marte dekhega...ab pata chalega jalal ko ruqaiyya ko thukrana ka anjaam...jodha begum ka aaj akhri din hai...
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