Gauri and Everyone didn't know how the tomb crate of that baby reached there. But Gauri sensed the divine in her eyes and her smile unknowingly gave hope to everyone. Aru couldn't able to recognize how she did that. 

"You are having the power of giving re-birth to the people..." - Om spelt in surprise. Avi looked at her shocking no words came from his mouth in shock. When om said that, Her next thought went to her father, whose corpse was next to her. But she didn't leave the baby. Avi came to her and Upto his surprise, That baby raised her two little arms to him with a smile. Tears crossed in his eyes, His heart yearned him to touch the baby. Before that, He didn't believe in Love at first sight, But when the baby gazed him with a smile, He couldn't stop himself from taking the baby in his arms. The baby's lips widened wider than before when she was in Avi's hands. 

"Hi..." - he breathed along with the tears to the baby. But om didn't want to take any chances. He thought this baby may even harm his children. So he tried avi from being attached to her. But Gauri stopped him and pointed her finger towards the sky. Clouds in the night sky faded away, Moon and the Sabtharishi star form (BIG BEAR IN ASTRONOMY) were the only visible things in the cloud. 

"Aru, Avi, come to us..." - Om and Gauri whispered and widened their arms for them looking at the dark sky. Avi came with the baby but Aru stayed at the same place looking at her father's corpse which was as same as when she saw him last time. Gauri dragged Aru to her side and made her look at the sky which has the only moon and saptharishi star form in the sky. 

"Saptharishi..." - Om and Gauri whispered. Aru and Avi looked at them surprisingly. The moon started to shower that place with ultimate brightness and Its focus was only on them. When all the saptharishi stars twinkled at once. The vaanka's symbol in the baby's forearm sparkled. Then the symbol in Everyone's forearm sparkled. 

"She's the newcomer... Unlike us" - Gauri sensed after sensing her. 

"Newcomer means..." - Avi asked Gauri.

"We are vaanka's because our parents and their parents are vaanka's... But none of the baby's parents was vaanka's... She's blessed... She's special and most importantly she's divine..."  - Gauri exclaimed. 

"So?" - Aru asked them. 

"Sabtharishies gave the responsibility of her to us... We have to preserve and save her from the outside world and also from him" - Gauri told them and also sensed that they were approaching them. Gauri hurried them. Om took the whole tomb box of shivaay and placed in his car. Avi helped in filling the soil back. But Om came back and finished the process within minutes and they headed back to Bangalore. But Aru's eyes fixed on the tomb crate and Avi placed the baby close to his heart. The smile in the baby's face didn't fade away. 

"Do i really have powers to bring back any dead person?" - Aru asked Gauri. 

"Yes, BUT" - Gauri stopped. 

"But only our kind, not on humans..." - Om completed the sentence. 

"I can try it with accha..." - Aru asked them with a lot of expectations. They didn't say anything but glanced each other with teary eyes. 

"No... Aru... You can't do that..." - Gauri replied in a cold tone. 

"Why?" - Both avi and Aru asked them in chorus. 

"Because your father's soul is intertwined with your mother's soul... And your mom is dead and your maternal grandparents burnt your mother's body as per their ritual... So Bringing only your father back to life is not possible..." - Gauri said, Aru fell back on her seat in disappointment but when the eyes met with the baby who was protectively in Avi's hand, she felt energetic. Aru asked for the baby, Avi gave it to her and they held the baby together. Again Her smile eradicates all her worries. When she raised her hand and touched her cheek, the weight in her heart relaxed.

"Don't know why... But we feel so so connected to you, Jaan..." - Aru spelt while kissing her forehead. 

"Jahaan..." - Avi named her with teary eyes. Om became emotional but Gauri stayed in silent looking at her mom's pendant in her hand found in the babies tomb crate. Even though she sensed about the baby's whole history when she touched, she remained silent. She waited for the correct time. 

"Are you hiding something from me?" - Om asked her, She purposefully nodded no but her mind, Her Heart everything going under the same path.  

"You know when Avi came to our house for the first time with Anika, Aru was excited like this..."- Gauri put a riddle to om but he didn't get anything. 

"How avi is connected to this baby?" - Om asked her. 

"Time has an answer for everything..." -Gauri whispered but their conversation didn't reach aru and avi's ears as they were concentrated with avi. 

"You know agathiyar lived for 3000 years, Where his body was destroyed when he was hundred, But still people could see and sense him for three thousand years, And then as per his wish, god turned him into a star... Have you heard that?" - Gauri asked him while looking at the sky. 

"Yeah i know, I remember once, Mom said about Agathiyar munivar (saint) in bed-time stories... But how he's connected to us... Swear on me, Who's this baby?" - Om asked her. 

"Everything has an answer, For now, I can tell you one thing... Jahhaann is precious... We are sentenced by God to protect her from the negative energy..." - Gauri said and om stopped bothering her. 

Aru exclaimed in happiness when she fell asleep in her shoulders, Both om and Gauri turned towards them and smiled widely. 

"She's in the safer hands..." - Gauri thought. And held om's hand who was driving and kept it in her lap. 

"If there come a day, when i am not near you, When you don't have me in your thoughts and memories, WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME?"  - She asked. 

"But you know what? Shivaay chetta and Anika will love each other, They don't need any thoughts and memories to love each other, And their souls live together and also die together, And even nature couldn't stop them... They made for each other... And he's repeating the mistakes again... Least knowing about fate..."  - Gauri said. Om took his palm from her lap in an instant. 

"Whose repeating the mistake? Why you suddenly took anika and shivaay's name together? What's going in your mind?" - Om asked her out of patience. Rather than telling, She smiled sarcastically and turned towards the window and looked at her village from far away with a smile, Where on the other hand, An Old woman with a sparkling symbol in her forearm waved bye to her. 

Om prepared the place to preserve shivaay's body in the underground floor of their house in an Icebox. They dropped Aru and Gauri in the entrance along with the sleeping baby with them and reached the underground floor from the back door of their house which was the only way to the underground floor. 

With a smiley face, Aru and Gauri entered the house with the baby, But they got stagnated at the same place when they found ritwik sitting in the couch in his wedding attire and he came towards aru when he saw him. But he eventually had to stop when he saw the baby in her protective hands. 

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Dear son, 

I sensed it when you mentioned about anika in the very first letter, And don't take much stress. Somehow, I am getting a gut-feeling that everything is happening for a reason. Your heart automatically creates a special place for her. And I also know you're resisting your heart much. But can't make it. 

Take a deep breath and leave everything to fate, my dear. But don't forget, None of us belongs to their kind. If anything happens, She will be the only one to get affected. This time i want to say this proverb to you.

If you see a beautiful flower, don't plug it but water it.

Real love lies in their happiness, Not in their sufferings. 

With love, 

Your mom. 

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Year: 2023 January 23. 

"Okay guys, One hypothetical question... Imagine you're single and you just now had a break-up with your boyfriend, whom you loved to an extent, After some years, He comes back and says sorry... What will you do?"  - One twenty years old girl stuffing the rice in her mouth asked everyone in common. They were about ten members in that group of both genders. In the open space, And the sun didn't fail to turn its brightness level to 100%. But they sat under the tree's shadow and asked. 

"Lamest question..."- Everyone exclaimed and murmured guys. 

"Your ex messaged you?" - Another girl asked her. 

"Nothing like that... I am writing a story, Over there my male protagonist did some mistakes which i don't want to explain you guys and bore you... And yeah, One line of the story was that... Tell me whether my heroine should accept him or not..." - she asked.

"Hmm... That's a real issue..." - The girl who replied to her already said.

"I think you should forgive and have a happily ever after tag to your story..." - One man in the group said. 

"Yeah Happily Ever after..." - Everyone exclaimed. 

"That means there's no truth in your story, Then you have to change the genre of the story from Romantic to Fantasy..." - A bold new voice hit everyone's ears and stopped them from discussing. 

"Fantasy? Why?" - The girl asked her. 

"Because Happily ever after only exists in fairy tales, But In real-life, Everything is upside down..." - The girl thundered again which made everyone to think. 

"So, What will you do, ma'am? When your ex come back one day and asks sorry?" - The girl who possed the question asked her. 

"Simple, I will ask him to die..." - She said. Everyone stuck with her answer in a casual tone. 

"Anika...!?!" - Her friend next to her took that lady's name while caressing her palms. Anika winked her eyes and changed the mood of the environment in a spark but her friend knew she meant every word in her sentence. Burying every feeling inside her, she masked a smiley and jovial face to everyone. 

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Now I think, You guys come to know about the child and some scoop about their kind. But the suspense is still there i know.