She had said to act, and they would act together. But Prithvi didn't know what that meant. She felt like she had the power to destroy all the nomads clamoring around the city walls, if only she knew how.
"You have no answer?" Anuradha said. She flicked a hand skyward again and another crack of thunder shook the earth.
Just act.
"If not for her," Prithvi said, "could I do this?" She did not know the gestures her grandmother used. She simply raised her arm high into the air. The sky instantly darkened and rain began to fall, hissing against the hot pavement stones.
Prithvi shivered in the suddenly cold wind. She feared she had chosen unwisely. She had seen an image in her mind, of rains falling on the mountains for days on end, overflowing the streams, overflowing the river. How could sh
