Epilogue


    Shisu disrobed and lay on a smooth granite slab. She flinched when her skin touched the cold stone, but soon relaxed.


    Her rudra-like servant reached down and loosened the cloth from her face, revealing eyeless sockets—still fresh and red. He placed a bowl with Bale''s gleaming lavender eyes on the stone slab next to her, along with a needle, a scalpel and other instruments.


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    "I have learned," the child said, "to see better without eyes than when I was whole. I am curious what the world will look like now."


    The servant smiled. "And you will find these eyes exceptional!"