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Tales of the Gods
They had everything, and that was the problem. Nobody had ever told them no in a way that meant anything.
They had everything, and that was the problem.
Nalakubara and Manigriva were sons of Kubera, lord of wealth.
They had grown up inside a life so completely without consequence that consequence had started to look like a thing that happens to other people.
Nobody had ever told them no in a way that meant anything. Neither of them had ever once had to sit with the discomfort of having done something wrong.
The two brothers were drunk on the best wine their father's treasury could supply, bathing in a mountain stream with a group of women, laughing at nothing in particular.
The sage Narada came along the riverbank.
His presence was normally enough to get the attention of gods and demons alike.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.