Dwandv:: The Battle for the Gate by Dinkar Goswami

Author:Dinkar Goswami [Goswami, Dinkar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2021-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

EYE

Master Shalya approached Gerua and Danta at dawn as they waited to leave the ashram for the quest for the gate. “Danta, you look like you are ready to travel.” He smiled gently.

“I know where we’re going. We’re going to find the gate,” Danta replied with excitement. “Are we going to go through the eye?” he quizzed Master Shalya.

“The eye?” Gerua asked, looking at Master Shalya. “What does Danta mean by going through the eye?”

“Clever boy,” said Master Shalya. “Let us get you off the snow and ice.”

“Master Shalya, what is the eye? Can you tell me something else that will help us find the gate?” Gerua asked anxiously.

“We will find the gate, Mom.” Danta tugged at Gerua’s hand confidently.

“Master Shalya, what will I do if I cannot find the gate?” asked Gerua again, ignoring Danta.

“Keep looking! Young Danta has more confidence than you, Gerua.” Master Shalya assured her.

“Let us formally introduce you to the eye. You went through it before when you went for the purge. You were blindfolded then, but now you will see it. It may instill confidence,” said Master Iku. All the other masters at the ashram had assembled to see Danta and Gerua off.

Went through the eye…when? Of course! When I went for the purge!? Gerua realized.

They all moved toward the innermost part of the ashram. The stand alone eyes had always been there, staring at them all the time, but Gerua had never been able to figure out their purpose or what they represented. The eyes had always seemed to be beyond the ashram wall, inaccessible to anyone. They passed through the apparent inner ashram wall that led them to an area beyond the inner ashram. Gerua saw that there was a fourth eye on the floor below.

Danta and Gerua were directed by Master Shalya to stand on the pupil of the fourth eye on the floor. Danta was grinning from ear to ear, visibly excited. He held Gerua’s hand tightly as everyone began to chant. Master Shalya moved toward the small eye on the right, and Master Iku moved toward the left eye, as all the other masters raised their right hands as if they were taking an oath.

Master Shalya and Master Iku each held the upper eyelid of the two small eyes and lowered the eyelids shut. The pupil of the central eye dilated fully, and the iris almost totally disappeared. When the central eye had dilated completely, the ball-like lens enlarged toward Danta and Gerua. The eye became three- dimensional, and the lens of the central eye fully engulfed Danta and Gerua. Master Shalya and Master Iku then opened the smaller eyes. The lens was pulled back into the central eye, along with Gerua and Danta. The eye became two-dimensional once again, and Danta and Gerua could be seen momentarily as a still picture within the lens of the central eye.

The central eye and the one on which Gerua and Danta had been standing began to close simultaneously as the eyelids appeared on the top and the bottom of the central eye and the one on the floor.

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