Chapter 1

[NOCOPY]

A glimpse

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She was in her world of darkness. 

And then she saw his eyes as they'd been when he'd first seen her. Shock. Horror. Hidden behind the frozen look on his face as a broken door lay at his feet. 

She saw his eyes again, her in his arms and in her lehenga. His eyes were still frozen on her, but there was a shocked wonder hidden behind it all. 

She saw herself frozen in a body that looked dead, walking around a fire with him in front of her, and when it came her time to lead, she would've fallen if it wasn't for him catching her. Holding her. 

A chain of black beads went around her neck. And when she saw red reaching for her she pushed it away. She needed a break from the bright colours of her life. She wanted the blackness for a while yet. 

But it still fell on her. Forcing colour on her. 

No. No. No. No. No. She sighed, letting it settle on her. 

She woke up with a gasp, her dream vanishing instead of morphing into her happy place this time. Unusual. But then her eyes focused and she realised that it was because her happy place had come to her instead. "Shiva?", she whispered.

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