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The Great Epics
Krishna asked him to ride alone with him, on the way out of Hastinapura. Karna accepted the way a man accepts attention he is not used to receiving.
Krishna asked him to ride alone with him, in his own chariot, on the way out of Hastinapura.
Karna accepted the way a man accepts attention he is not used to receiving for his own sake.
Carefully. Not certain whether he was about to be threatened, bought, or simply examined by an opponent trying to work out why he fought so hard for a cause that was not obviously his.
The roads were still crowded from the previous day's failed embassy.
Neither man spoke for the first stretch. Karna watched the city go past with the particular stillness of somebody who has learned not to expect good news from unexpected attention.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.