Again, the seven-year-old boy could only smile while looking down shyly at the praise of the little princess.
"You know," said Andira, "all of this wouldn't have happened if you had wanted to come with me. I mean, like Lakshmi who is always by my side that Andhika and Dharma won't dare to hurt you."
Aryan glanced at Lakshmi again, and the palace maid smiled with a nod.
After thinking a thing or two, Aryan then said to the princess, "I, I will follow your words—ermm, My Princess," he said half nervously.
Andira and Lakshmi both smiled at the boy's nervousness.
"B—But," Aryan said again, "with, with one condition."
"Aryan!" said Lakshmi feeling that someone cannot put any conditions on someone of a higher position.
What's more, Andira is the Princess of the Uttara Kingdom, asking a condition by a Sudra sounds very disrespectful, instead of a Candala.
"You shouldn't say that, Aryan!"
But Lakshmi's words had to stop as Princess Andira raised her hand.
