**Padmapalashakshi Draupadi - Pooja Sharma's AT**#15[DT Note - Page67] - Page 2

Originally posted by: AnuMP

POI - Drau's birth

I was surrounded by redness, though I wasn't in a room. The walls undulated, gave off warmth. I had no body, no name. Yet I knew who I was. Someone spoke to me encouragingly, in a familiar voice, telling me that it was my turn now. I must go forth to do my duty. But I held back. It was so comfortable in this place. So safe and undemanding. Also, I was worried by the enormousness of my task.

Can I really change history? I asked. What about the sins I'll incur, being the cause of so much devastation?

The voice was as gentle as a brook wending through pebbles.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you

Instrument, I repeated. Doer. It sounded simple enough, though I suspected that it would become more complicated once the game began. I asked, What if I forget?

He said, You probably will. Most of them do. That's the beguil-ing trick the world plays on you. You'll suffer for it"or dream that you're suffering. But no matter. At the time of your death I'll remind you. That'll be enough.

A force pushed me forward, loving yet implacable. I felt myself gliding through the redness, taking on form as I went. I had arms and legs now, jewels around my neck. I was wrapped in gold cloth.

It was getting hotter. I had to hurry. Smoke from the fire made me cough and stumble. Under my feet, the stone was slippery from the ghee the priests had poured into the flames for a hundred days, the 358|

air acrid with an odor I hadn't smelled before. The name for it came to me as I stepped out, dizzying me: vengeance. My brother gripped my hand so I wouldn't fall.

Everything's turning to snow-dust, even my brain. But with the last of my strength I formulate a thought: That was the yagna fire out of which I came into this world! Were you there with me even then, before I took on this birth?

I feel him smile. He's glad I made the connection in time

Originally posted by: AnuMP

POI - Drau's birth

I was surrounded by redness, though I wasn't in a room. The walls undulated, gave off warmth. I had no body, no name. Yet I knew who I was. Someone spoke to me encouragingly, in a familiar voice, telling me that it was my turn now. I must go forth to do my duty. But I held back. It was so comfortable in this place. So safe and undemanding. Also, I was worried by the enormousness of my task.

Can I really change history? I asked. What about the sins I'll incur, being the cause of so much devastation?

The voice was as gentle as a brook wending through pebbles.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you

Instrument, I repeated. Doer. It sounded simple enough, though I suspected that it would become more complicated once the game began. I asked, What if I forget?

He said, You probably will. Most of them do. That's the beguil-ing trick the world plays on you. You'll suffer for it"or dream that you're suffering. But no matter. At the time of your death I'll remind you. That'll be enough.

A force pushed me forward, loving yet implacable. I felt myself gliding through the redness, taking on form as I went. I had arms and legs now, jewels around my neck. I was wrapped in gold cloth.

It was getting hotter. I had to hurry. Smoke from the fire made me cough and stumble. Under my feet, the stone was slippery from the ghee the priests had poured into the flames for a hundred days, the 358|

air acrid with an odor I hadn't smelled before. The name for it came to me as I stepped out, dizzying me: vengeance. My brother gripped my hand so I wouldn't fall.

Everything's turning to snow-dust, even my brain. But with the last of my strength I formulate a thought: That was the yagna fire out of which I came into this world! Were you there with me even then, before I took on this birth?

I feel him smile. He's glad I made the connection in time

Originally posted by: amritat

Is the first chapter of Palace of Illusions?

Originally posted by: AnuMP

POI - Drau's birth

I must go forth to do my duty.

Try to remember that you are the instrument and I the doer. If you can hold on to this, no sin can touch you

Originally posted by: AnuMP

Actually the last chapter where she remembers