The Goddess of Karichota

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re was a dull ache in her head. Her back throbbed and her throat felt dry. She wanted some

dream that was

or something in the house. Whatever that thing

organ?" she

dy was weak. Her breath came in gasps. She scanned her apartment for any signs of dri

The curtains, an endless flow of gray-in-yolk yellow blinders, were neatly drawn and secured by the wall. Her tribal artifacts sat intact on the wall across the lounge. She loved her collection of tribal masks and paintings. They kept her close to her roots. Her

was floating towards her. It was human but had very blue eyes. Its hair was like flowing tar. It went all the way to its legs. It must have been a woman. A floating woman. she was wearing what looked like robes of silk. Her head was wrapped in what looked like a crown

mouthed again.

left so hurriedly? What had the floating woman done to him? Everything see

ts. When she came to college, her mother had asked her to pack

this village. They are going to try everything to stop you..." Mel

will be able to trace me there. Besides, there are so

the moon's yolk on his head when he went to st

here was no moon. And the moon has no yolk

eliefs caused the death of her only brother. The doctors had said his heart was weak and enlarged. Her mothe

She wanted to heal people with real medicine, not some smoking he

l thinks you did not die of heart disease. No one else will have to die because of ignorance, dear Nalya. My little brot

and pretended later that she had forgotten them when her mo

ientifically explainable was none of her business. For a moment, when the floating woman entered her house, she wished she ha

in her house? Was i

flame. That was not 'the burning desire' people who were in love talked about. She was twenty years old and had a boyfriend that she had never kissed back home in the village but she had never experienced that flaming desire before. How was Morgan p

ome attention to herself. Besides, who talked about floating things in the city? Those were village tales. She did not know exactly what to do. She pushed herself out of bed and tried standing. Her body was regaining composure but still he

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ernet only had facts. Not fallacies and beliefs. In anything, she knew things that had no possible

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