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The luxurious golden palace of "Kingdom Raya" was shining brightly in the sunlight. It was the biggest and best palace in the entire hinterland.

Its doors and thick pillars were decorated with beautiful carvings and were covered with golden water. Its floor was covered with shining transparent white marble and no one except the royal family was allowed to walk in this palace with shoes.

The talk of the golden palace was common throughout the interior.

At that time, a thin creature was lying on a ship-size bed in the middle of a very large room of the golden palace. This entity was none other than the "Queen Raya" of this empire.

The maids were standing around the bed with folded hands. Their faces were drowned in sadness and grief.

Queen Raya was about to die now in the state of illness, the royal doctors were failing to cure the queen even after their desperate efforts.

Announcements were being made repeatedly throughout the empire. Any physician who can treat Queen Raya well will be given the status of royal physician.

There was a line of doctors in the palace every day and every prescription, every treatment was tried but everyone knew this fact that the queen was suffering from the grief of her son.

"Prince Zalari, who was the only prince of this kingdom. A young, brave and very handsome prince. He was full of life, laughing and cheerful. Color temper was a special part of his nature.

There used to be a pile of the most beautiful concubines in his harem. The youngest and most beautiful girls of the whole empire used to adorn his harem.

Often in Inner land, when some empire came to power, they attacked the weaker tribes of the other empire and enslaved them and made them part of their empire.

Prince Zalari had invaded a large tribe of the nearby kingdom of Zara and added it to his kingdom. After some time, his eyes were fixed on the Kingdom of Renam.

Kingdom Renam. Stories were made about the beauty of the princesses whose fragility was likened to a rose.

Queen Renam's three twin daughters. About whom it was common that they are very beautiful and brave. She used to manage her kingdom with her mother because of her powers.

Ten years after the birth of these daughters, a full moon night. All of a sudden there was a spring of colors in the whole kingdom of Renam. Plants, flowers, trees and animals started talking.

Sunny had heard that another princess was born in Renam kingdom that night. These springs and colors came because of this, but Queen Renam and King neither denied nor acknowledged this. She had never been seen in the Sultanate of Renam.

No one knew what she was like or what her strength was. They don't know if she was alive or dead.

That princess became so anonymous that people declared their own thinking wrong that maybe no other princess was ever born.

Every kingdom in Innerland needed a queen who could rule the whole kingdom with her special power.

And this kingdom was known by the name of each queen. Every time the old queen died, the kingdom was transferred to the name of a new heir.

In wars and invasions of other kingdoms, the first siege of princes and strong armies was around their crown princes (new queens). But there was no such prince in Renam kingdom.

And the king of Renam kingdom had died some years ago due to an illness.

Prince Zalari felt that he could take advantage of this opportunity and take the entire kingdom under his control. The new queen of Renam Empire was definitely one of these three twin sisters; he wanted to take over the entire kingdom by making the crown princess his slaves.

One day he suddenly attacked Renam kingdom with the three fastest troops of his army.

Renam's Princess ‘Jazaar’ who had the power to foresee the passing of time and any trouble to come.

She had already known about this attack and told her sisters.

When Prince Zalari arrived with the army, the army of Renam was also ready. It was a dark evening, when the attack of Zalari was answered by these three princesses along with their army with full preparation.

At the beginning of the night, Zalari's army retreated and encamped in a hidden place in the mountains.

Prince Zalari had the power to read thoughts. He was sitting on his silken bed, calming himself in his tent.

After closing his eyes, he started trying to read the minds of the princesses by making a circle with the fingers of both hands. So that he can decide the next course of action by knowing their planning to attack the next day.

He was repeatedly failing in his efforts and was frustrated when smoke started to fill his tent.

He was shocked and attracted. His clothes and bed were set on fire.

He wanted to move to save himself, but he was trapped in an invisible grip.

In the tent those three princesses were standing together wearing their beautiful silk dresses.

Three identical and very beautiful, tall and delicate princesses.

Prince Zalari began to believe every story about whom he told.

"You cannot read our thoughts. Queen Renam has already surrounded us with her power so that you cannot play with our minds.”

Princess Fiona told him with a smile and cleared his confusion. She was standing with her hands straight towards him due to which she was on light but continuous fire.

"If anyone thinks that Renam kingdom can be enslaved just because there is no powerful prince or the king is not safe. So he will change his mind after your death today.”

Princess Riana gave assurance in a bitter tone and shook her fist, which shocked Prince Zalari as well and tightened the grip of an invisible rope around him. He was anxiously trying to move with all his might.

The heat of the fire was now burning his body.

"We can talk comfortably. I am ashamed of my step. I am ready to beg for forgiveness on my knees. "

He was trying to weave a web with words. He still thought that those fragile girls would easily become crazy.

"I apologize for my attack. Your beauty and delicacy along with bravery have made me your captive. I found more about you than I had heard. I am ready to give one of my clans to Renam Empire as a remedy for my mistake.” He was trying to settle the matter with his tongue. The sweat on his face was now falling in the form of drops.

The three of them stood silently without answering his words.

They were not ordinary girls; they did not melt with compliments or soft tones. They were the most dangerous if they were recognized by the enemy.

Zalari was now remembering all the things that Queen Raya had told him while stopping him from attacking.

He was told that Queen Renam is very brave and heard that she has made princesses like her. He did not listen and did not pay attention. He was a doer. He had thought that by occupying the Renam kingdom, he would show Queen Raya that he is not an ordinary prince. He will set an example of his power throughout the inner land.

He had come with the thought of creating fear in everyone's hearts.

He kept shouting and apologizing. He was regretting what he had done but time had passed.

No one came to save him even when he called. Outside, the Renam Empire's army had attacked and subdued all its soldiers in their sleep.

Prince Zalari burned to death there. The newly rising sun had spread the news of the victory of Renam Empire.

Rays of joy broke out on the frightened faces of the people of Renam.

Some hidden soldiers of Kingdom Raya who were on guard duty that night but failed to stop this attack. The prince's tent and the burns in it were stilled when they saw his body in the morning. Their soldiers and powerful commanders had been taken as slaves.

Those few surviving soldiers took the body of their prince back to their kingdom.

Prince Zalari's sisters mourned this news and created chaos in the palace. The entire kingdom of Raya spent a whole day in mourning, neither eating nor drinking anything. People in yellow clothes were standing in front of the palace with their heads bowed.

Queen Raya's condition started to deteriorate due to grief and anger. She did not believe in the death of Prince Zalari at all.

Who came to the tent that night, what happened and how the prince was burnt, all this remained a secret that no one knew. Queen Raya was sure that the charred body belonged to someone else.

They believed that the prince had either been enslaved or was hiding somewhere.

How long did she send her secret army from place to place in search of the prince, but every time they returned empty-handed with a disappointed face. This grief and despair made the queen sick. That disease was increasing with time.

The queen's healer was Prince Zalari, but the prince was dead.

Doctors knew the secret of the queen's declining health, but accepting this fact meant declaring the queen incurable. No one had the courage of such insolence.

The special servants of the queen used to stand around her bed with their heads bowed as they mourned the illness of their queen. The queen died.

King Zakari also entered the room this time along with a doctor. After his son, the grief of his wife's illness made him much older than his age.

"Queen. If you believe that Prince Zalari is hiding somewhere in Renam Empire or is in their prison. If you are sure he is alive then wait. I have sent a message to Sultanate Renam. They must return our son or be prepared to lose the crown princes of their empire.”

King sat on the bed next to the queen and started to give her hope again. Hope that keeps her alive.

Queen Raya's closed eyes opened, she looked at the king with hope.

"Their princesses are powerful. Time would have given them more experiences and strength. It is possible that we can attack them but... It will not be easy to imprison the Crown Princes.”

Queen Raya was speaking haltingly in a weak voice. Disappointment was covered on the face, the luster of the eyes that had faded for years would never return.

"What do you think, Queen, that we have been sitting hand in hand for so long?"

We have come to know the weakness of kingdom Renam. We have discovered this princess whom no one could know even in the kingdom of Renam. The young princess whose birth brought life and colors to the kingdom of Renam, that princess is alive and she is the heir to the kingdom of Renam. She is the weakest princess in all of Inner land, the future queen of Renam Empire, a very weak princess.”

King was speaking enthusiastically, Queen Raya's eyes widened. After a while, there was a slight glow in them.

There was a hope. A new hope was born. The clouds of disappointment started to disappear. It seems that Prince Zalari will soon be with them. The enemy will kneel before them.

The servants looked at each other with happy faces.

Even if the prince does not come back, he will be avenged.

After some time, the queen wished to get up from the bed, spreading her hands in front of the king.

King held her hand with love and enthusiasm, lifted her up and hugged her to his chest.