The manner in which his body clung to the stone while his arms and legs were fanned out embracing it resembled something a stone reptile would do. He told her she could either stroll around once or do it multiple times, and felt free to complete three rounds himself. Watching him, Ponna lost every one of her feelings of trepidation. Like the elderly person had said, this was nothing for somebody who had meandered around timberlands. He helped her crane up her sari and attach it safely. Two vultures orbited around in the perpetual scope of the sky. They appeared to be still, their wings extended wide without a perceivable ripple. They favored her. She kept her palms intact over her head and implored, ‘God, my dad, kindly ensure I don’t acquire the standing for being infertile.’ And very much like he had done, she crossed the divider and explored the cliff with the tirelessness of a stone reptile. At the point when she arrived at the finish of her trial, he gave her a hand and aided her get over the divider to his side.
He held her near his heart and jubilantly kissed her on the cheek, lips and head. Whenever they sat before Pandeeswarar, she burst into wails. ‘Looking for a day to day existence, we have pawned our lives. Try not to swindle us, god,’she shouted without holding back. With her head on his chest, she felt lightheaded. She lay there with her eyes shut. He laid her on the ground and sprinkled some water all over. She recaptured awareness. ‘Maama, will I do two additional rounds?’she said. He was firm in his refusal. The impact was a similar whether you did it once or multiple times. She began making pongal before the Pandeeswarar sanctuary. The clerics of this sanctuary were from the Pandara rank. They came just when there were swarms, as on new-moon days. On different days, they came provided that somebody proceeded to bring them. Kali descended quick and was back when she had wrapped up making the pongal. She was stunned at his speed. Whenever the psyche is energized, the body starts to take off. When the Pandara minister came and completed the petitions and they moved down, dimness had started to fold itself over everything. They would always remember the night that followed. That was the late evening everything met up happily. That was the night they rested soundly, certain that the seed they’d planted would develop. She additionally considered it her repentance for injuring his heart with her words prior that day. His body and psyche communicated his conviction that nothing could adequately offer his thanks for this lady who had put her life in danger doing something all ladies dreaded to do. The night was filled to the edge with giving and getting. In the homestead, on the coir-rope bed, she lay like a laurel on his chest. The two of them felt they didn’t require anything; nothing could make him more joyful than to kick the bucket at such a second. She was certain that she wouldn’t drain that month, that there would at last be a finish to all the discussion. nine And the sort of talk they had persevered! Many individuals had presumed that Ponna and Kali wouldn’t have the option to have kids by any stretch of the imagination. It was, truth be told, their craving that it ought not occur. Indeed, even her sister by marriage said so once. ‘What are you going to do by setting aside cash? Eat well, wear great garments and be cheerful.’ ‘Why? Is it true that we are starving at this point? Are we standing stripped before your home?’ Ponna answered. Her sister by marriage’s face shrank. ‘I didn’t mean it that way.’ ‘What sort of talk is this? Shiteater talk.’ Ponna couldn’t hold it back from tumbling out. Furthermore, her sister by marriage clutched that last remark. She circumvented telling everybody, ‘She called me a poo eater.’ No one tried to ask what had incited such a maltreatment. ‘Ponna goes on and on,’ they said. In any case, Muthu could say nothing like that. He cherished his brother by marriage more than his sister. He reproved his better half. And all of this actually demolished the connection between the sisters by marriage. They at absolutely no point in the future addressed each other appropriately. Whenever she realized Ponna was coming, her sister-inlaw left for her mom’s home with her kid. Kali had two uncles. They resided very well in Sanarpalayam with a field and a house. However, they had an eye on his property. At the point when his uncles’ spouses met him at any capacity, they groveled over him like they were prepared to give up their lives to him on a platter. The uncles visited them somewhere around one time each month. They brought foods grown from the ground or something different for their sister, Kali’s mom. They gave some of it to her and the rest to Ponna. Ponna generally ridiculed this training: ‘In any event, when she is fit to be a grandma, she gets her due from her mom’s home.’ Kali would grin yet remain silent. One of the uncles had three little girls and a child. The other one had two children. Every so often, they would send their youngsters over and it was difficult to take care of them. In any case, all of this was not out of adoration for Kali and Ponna.