Chapter 12 · free to read
One year to the night. The same stone, the same count, and this time she had walked to it on purpose.
Eight feet of fired clay wearing her own face went into the Hooghly in three pieces, and the gold went out of her eyes with it.
He went into a police van weeping with happiness. Ratri went into the crowd and did not come out of it. And in the water at the bottom step, Maya's reflection smiled a full second before she did.
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