He said to her in deadly quiet, “Two months more I will give you, out of my great love. He clenched his fists and drew himself erect. Deep in his eyes, terrible wrath and untold tenderness hunted each other shadows, dark and bright, flitted across his face.
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His skin turned a ghastly pallor, his lips twitched. The veins stood out on his temples from the anguish she caused him. I should have you tortured for speaking to me as if I were just anyone, but my love prevents me.” No one else could speak one word of all that you dare to say to me and hope to live. In a voice as menacing as a serpent's hiss, he said, “My love for you, which you scorn so arrogantly, preserves your life. Listen to me, Ravana, you do not know what you have done.” He is kind beyond your understanding he will forgive you. “Rakshasa, there is no escape for you anywhere. And then it will truly be too late for you. As the sun covers the earth with his rays, Rama will cover your city with his eagle-feathered astras and each one shall be a flaming army among your people. But when Rama strings his Kodanda and Lanka shudders, you will know the terror of your death has come for you. Indra's vajra may fail to harm you, or even Yama's paasa. “If Rama is angry, nothing in the universe can save you. “Are you trying to frighten the Lord of the rakshasas, at whose name the universe trembles?” He looked at his women around him, and, throwing back his dark head, began to laugh. Take me back to Rama, before doom comes to Lanka.” Nothing in all the worlds, no cause in the yawning ages of time, will persuade me to give in to you. I am part of Rama as the light of the sun is part of the star. Take me back to Rama and he will forgive you. “But it is not too late for you, Rakshasa. But she did not know whether it was fear, or a sorrow too distant to fathom. Something flickered deep in Ravana's plumbless heart, and she saw it in his eyes. But I say to you, Ravana, even if the ocean of stars lay between us, my Rama would come to find me.” You speak of this sea being an obstacle between him and me. You don't know Rama he is not what you imagine him to be. She looked up briefly into his eyes and, her voice firmer, said, “You have violated dharma and punishment will come to you more quickly than you think. Ravana laughed, “They all know I am a law unto myself.
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