Wedding

                                    

                                          
Amba opened her eyes and felt unbearable pain in her feet. She found herself lying on her bed. She tried to get up but the pain prevented her. She could hear soft voices of people speaking. 
"I beg please let me take her to a physician. I know many palace physicians . They will cure her very quickly." She heard a man's voice. She was sure she had heard this voice before. She tried to recall the accident. She couldnt! Her head was whining.
Yagyaseni nodded helplessly. The man standing in front of her was old but his physique suggested he was  a warrior. 
"I am no one to stop you. If your physician can cure maata Amba then so be it" Draupadi said.
Bheesm flinched at the word maata. So Amba had a daughter now. It means she is married...probably widowed since she loves alone with her daughter. 
Bheesm and Draupadi reached Amba's room. 
"You!?" Amba said gasping. She struggled for breath as she witnessed her past standing right in front of her eyes. 
"Amba...please let me help you! I beg" Bheesm requested.
"There is no need Mahamahim" Amba said calmly. She was back to being poised again.
"Amba please dont let the past affect your decision in this manner" Bheesm requested. 
Draupadi was confused . What past? Who was this man?
"I have liberated myself Bheesm. I am no longer the same girl you had abducted years ago. I am not that headstrong foolish girl. Trust me. I have no offense towards you. But I cannot go out of this forest. This is my life. This is where I left my previous self and liberated myself for good...this where Amba transformed from the princess of kashi to a hermitess...this is where she found God and this is where she is destined to die" Amba said softly smiling to herself.
Bheesm was flabbergasted. This is not the Amba he knew. She is a calm amd  mature woman. This evolution of Amba seemed intriguing. Bheesm wanted to know how she went through such transformation cause the woman he used to know was a childish headstrong princess . 
"It is not time for you to die yet. If you act come out of this forest then the physician will come to the forest. I will bring him as soon as possible. Till then Yagyaseni please take care of her wound and dont let it be infected. Clean the wound regularly. I will bring the physician as soon as possible." Bheesm said and looked at Amba for few moments with a strange look. Then he rode on his horse and left .
"Maat is this...your Bheesm?" Draupadi asked suddenly remembering Amba's story.
Amba simply nodded as she recalled her past. Her Bheesm? She smiled at the painful fate.