Originally posted by: lghosh
Lashy, I didn't know Heera had a stepmom, I read it the first time in C44! Her dad remarried even when her mom was alive?
This is from Chapter 3
I think the small mention might have been overlooked/forgotten in what was otherwise a terrifying chapter/end for Durga. This is the part where Durga is alone in the Haveli reminiscing everything - her life, Parnagarh, her sister etc
Once at her room, the heiress sailed across the marble floors till she reached the jali window frames at the other end.
Perching her elbows against its sill, she drank the dusky sights in. Sights of endless greenery - starting from the mansion's rear gardens, to the hillock beyond, and the fertile valleys down below, where many idyllic villages flourished.
Apart from a horrible plague outbreak twelve years ago - a tragedy that'd claimed the lives of half the village, including those of their mother and stepmother - the valleys had always been a haven of peace. That is, until now.
'Mining the valleys would destroy everything we've worked hard for... the fields, the plantations, the water, the homes, the hospital, the peace... EVERYTHING! I'll never let that happen so long as I live!'
Edited by lashy - 7 years ago
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