#ps-1

The small smile that plays on Arunmozhi’s lips as he takes the letter from Vandhiyathevan does not go unnoticed. There is a hint of surprise and curiosity in it. "She sent a letter?" he asks, his voice gentler and quieter than before, when he was discussing his father's health and the danger looming over the Chola kingdom. 

"Yes, Ilavarase. She requested for me to present this to Ponniyin Selvar in private." Arunmozhi glances up at his brother's friend once before opening up the olai suvadi to read its contents. 

He can't stop the way his heart fills up with an inexplicable feeling of lightness and comfort when he sees the gentle curves of her handwriting. The Tamil words seem to have rolled off her fingertips like honey from a flower, he thinks, and begins to read her words.

“Thodudaiya seviyan vidaiyeriyor thooven madhisoodi Kaadudaiya sudalaip podi poosi en ullam kavar kalvan”

(”He - the majestic Lord Shiva adorned with earrings and seated on a bull with a crescent moon atop his locks - Has thieved my heart by smearing holy ash across his body.”)

The Thevaram verses come flowing back into his memory like waves of the Ponni nadhi - verses he'd learnt as a child from his grandma Sembian Madevi in Pazhaiyarai and Thanjavur. Ah, how long it's been since he'd heard those exquisite Tamil verses! It reminds him of home, of his childhood, of his siblings, of the beautiful river Ponni, and of a woman whose moonlike face he could never forget even in his months away from Chola Nadu.

His eyes go over her gentle script again, unable to help the way his heart skips a beat when he realizes the message she has stored within this devotional prayer - a gentle reminder for him to return home soon, for he holds with him her heart and her thoughts.

Arunmozhi smiles and nods at Vandhiyathevan, who is observant enough to pick up on the prince's softened eyes that he’s had his thoughts occupied with not just the welfare of the kingdom and the conspiracies surrounding it, but also a certain princess of Kodumbalur.

"If you have a reply you would like me to send back to her, I am always here to be your messenger, Ilavarase,” Vandhiyathevan adds, a teasing lilt to his voice. Arunmozhi simply smiles, busying himself with tucking the olai into his waistband before his newfound friend can say anything more.

Later that night, when he removes his angavastram and remembers the olai he kept with him, he takes it out and reads it again, fingers going over the words. Sleep evades him as he gazes at the full moon and sees her reflection in it. 

“By the time he clawed his way to awareness, it was light. Day seemed to have broken; the sun had undoubtedly risen somewhere – but where exactly, Vandhiyathevan seemed unable to decipher. He blinked away the mists of oblivion to notice the prince gazing at him with deep, if exhausted affection. “Land must be close, my friend,” he murmured. “I glimpsed the top of a coconut tree just now. Patience – just a while more!” “You ought to leave me to my fate, your highness,” Vandhiyathevan pleaded, again. “Let me go – save yourself –” “Don’t – don’t say that. You ought to know by now that I’d never give you up – ah, was that a voice?” The prince raised a head that seemed unaccountably heavy, and peered across the water. “Someone singing …”

Vandiyadevan:*By the time he clawed his way to awareness, it was light. Day seemed to have broken.The sun had undoubtedly risen somewhere – but where exactly, Vandhiyathevan seemed unable to decipher. He blinked away the mists of oblivion to notice the prince gazing at him with deep, if exhausted affection.

"My prince" * Said Vandiyadevan Getting up from the sand and sat on it*

Arulmozhi:"We have arrived in some unknown Island, my friend,” *he murmured* when I woke up I show that we were balancing on this price of wood close to this Island,so I brought us both here by swimming"

Vandiyadevan: “ Thank you my prince, you didn't had to do that for me..I don't know if I deserve this much honour”

Arulmozhi:“Don’t – don’t say that. You ought to know by now that I’d never give you up" *said Arulmozhi wiping away the sand on Vandiyadevan's face

Vandiyadevan: (He blushes) "My prince"*Said touching the hand on his face* "Thank you"

Arulmozh: *The hand on his face travel to his shoulder and pat his shoulder* "Now get up, let's see if we can find out,  if anyone live inside this Island" (smiles)

Vandiyadevan: Yes of course my prince *try's to get up but fall down with a pain full sound* " Ahh my leg...it hurts" *touches his leg. Try to massage his leg (but it hurts more)

Arulmozh: *sat besides him, takes a hold on

Vandiyadevan leg gently and raises the dhoti up to his Kneecap* "Let me see" *he gave the injured leg a good look and running his hand up and down the leg* "It seems like you are in injuried really bad... you can't walk now"

Vandiyadevan: *Look at Arulmozh with frowning faces trying to hold back the moan coz of (Leg Pain)* "No my prince, I can walk it's not a big deal just give me some time"

 Arulmozh: "That wouldn't be necessary coz" *He picked him up in his arms* "I'm going to carry you, if we wait your leg injury could get more worse, coz it's not looking that good so let me carry you, let's if we can find any types of medical substance from the island jungle. Hmmm." *Look Vandiyadevan in the eyes* (Smiling )

Vandiyadevan: (Shy and shocled) "my prince you don't really need to carry me" *looking away shyly to other direction from Arulmozh's eyes*

Arulmozh:*Smiling he said* "why so shy all of a sudden, you don't have to be that shy" *(Wink) at him* *Starts walking forward the jungle*

Vandiyadevan: (Blushing red) Yes my Prince *trying to hide his blushy red face from Arulmozh*

Arulmozh: "You know what I don't know if you are are blushing from embarrassment or maybe something else, but I have to say you really look cute when you blush" *smiling at the more blushing Vandiyadevan* "and I'm not complaining about it, coz I'm really liking it"

Vandiyadevan: *hides his face in Arulmozh's chest* "please don't mention it my prince" ( shyly smile)

😄 IDK I just wanted to write something on the PS1 Arulmozh and Vandiyadevan