Chapter 23B



It is indifferent to me, where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

-Parmenidies

Devika was thankful that she was left in relative peace for the whole day and though there was very little assurance in what Roopak hard said, somewhere in her subconscious mind she knew what he said was the rational thing to do. 'Wait until he comes back?'

'And then what? What if he repeats the same thing the Queen had said?'

She will then have two choices, either to brave that utter humiliation for the rest of her life here or to go back to her father to face yet another kind of degradation, forever.

And if she is doomed either way, she will rather have her eyes plucked out by her father than watch the man who had betrayed her for the rest of her life spending a joyous time.

'But for now, she will have to wait.'

'Oh! How does this wait tormented her sanity!'

The orange evening glow of sun lay spreaded throughout the land of Maniteek and her eye lids were heavy with the lack of rest a