On realising the truth, I rushed towards the kitchen. It was busy, and it took a while for me to realise that it was busy because of tonight's event.

The king had planned everything on his own and concluded on me marking Tala today, but that will never happen. The food would probably be for the midnight feast afterwards, but too bad for him, the whole food would be fed to the street dogs because there won't be any celebration of my marking Tala tonight.

They all noticed my presence and ...