Episode 1: The Last Temple Dancer
The full moon lit up the old well, turning it’s topmost corroded stones into dazzling spectres.
Renuka peered over the edge into the pitch black depths below. The earthy smell of wet clay, the stench of decaying moss and the sulfurous odour of underground rocks hit her. Abandoned for centuries, the structure stood at the end of a barren path, branching off the main road from town towards the east.
The town elders couldn’t remember when they last saw water in it. So why does it always smell so damp?
She held out her palm over the edge. Warm air tingled her skin.
Is it time I finished this ritual?
Her eyes scanned the starless night sky. Her ears hungered for any lucid sound in the bleak, moonlit landscape. An eerie silence greeted her.
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