95: Menaka and Vishwamitra

Menaka knew what she was being sent to do.She had been in Indra's court long enough to understand what was being asked of her when he sent her to the forest where Vishwamitra sat.She went.She moved through the trees the way she knew how.He opened his eyes.And looked at her in a way she hadn't expected.Not with hunger.Not with the kind of attention she had learned to recognise and use.He looked at her the way someone looks at something they didn't know they'd been missing.She had come to stay long enough to break his concentration.She stayed for ten years.New story every day.Follow so you never miss one.