in heaven’s name was she playing this dangerous game? “Harshal,” she whispered. “Do you realize that my will is nothing before the will of the gods?” 

He nodded, warily.

“Do you accept that if the gods wish you to remain sightless, it shall be so?” 

The enthusiasm drained from his young face, but he nodded.

Ishvari stoked the flame at the base of her spine, drew the molten thread of energy up to her second spinal vertebra, then to her navel, her heart and throat in quick succession. A humming began in her throat, rose into the vastness of her third eye, ascending into her crown, where it turned into a blazing stream that she poured back through the circle of chakras until the fire encircled her body in a vortex of light. Her fi...

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