Chapter 10: NadikaWhat she'd been expecting, Nadika Weligama really couldn't say. What she found wasn't anything close. It hadn't been this.
She held the soldiers at bay while the older man wept over the young woman's body, his sobs so disconsolate that she didn't want to tear him away, certain that had she tried to separate him from her remains before his weeping had run its course, she'd have to peel his fingers from around her body.
If anything, the one advantage she had was time.
She could see the military contingents gathered outside the warehouse on the tarmac, as regiment after regiment arrived from the city they called Mumbai.
She knew many things about this place without asking, their nature apparent to her as if they spoke their stories. She knew that the Sultan had launched
