The Unwaba Revelations by Samit Basu

Author:Samit Basu [Basu, Samit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Maya and Kirin walked into a small cave that Spikes had recently found and evacuated. The cave was still full of domestic smells left behind by a family of bears, its former inhabitants, who were now wandering through Vrihataranya with throbbing behinds and newly acquired lifelong aversions to pashans.

It was midnight, and Vrihataranya was awake to the sound of chirping insects and distant screams as predators rose and went to work. Outside the cave, Spikes and Asvin sat by a crackling fire and told each other unpleasant stories. Inside, Maya and Kirin sat face to face on a thick blanket of leaves, watching each other in the light of a hovering fireball, fragments of bright blue safat eggshell in their hands.

‘Should we?’ asked Kirin.

‘You first,’ said Maya.

Kirin tossed the shell fragment into his mouth, chewed on it solemnly, grimaced and swallowed. Maya watched breathlessly as his eyes closed and he slowly toppled sideways, his face loosening into a wide, stupid grin. She gulped down her own piece of shell, and the world slowly faded away around her as she sank into blissful slumber.

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