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finally managed to drift off.
     
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    CHAPTER 2
     
    Rain awoke the next morning to find his Geeya sitting on a rock, staring at him.
    “Good morning.” she sang in her balmy voice. “Why don’t you eat breakfast? Then we’ll continue on our way.”
    Rain stretched and yawned and then proceeded to exactly as she had suggested. Before long, they were on their way again. Rain, who was feeling chatty this morning, decided to engage his Geeya in another session of questions and answers.
    “Yesterday, you said that a Geeya is there to provide answers to her sequestor, right?”
    She nodded. “And advice, whenever needed and possible.”
    “Possible? Why is that? Are there some questions you cannot answer, or do not know the answer to? Besides information about another sequestor’s Quest, of course.”
    “True … a Geeya cannot access information about a sequestor whose Quest is still active…” she trailed off, floating ahead of him.
    “What all do you know?”
    “Everything that has taken place in the past… right up to the present.”
    “That’s a lot of information for one Geeya to hold. Or is it that you have unlimited memory?”
    “I do not hold the knowledge. It is in the pool of knowledge. I simply dip inside for the answers.”
    “Oh, yeah... I forgot about the ‘pool of knowledge.’” said Rain with a roll of his eyes, and then shot a quick look towards his Geeya to ensure that she hadn’t seen him do that. “So tell me more about this ‘pool of knowledge.’”
    His Geeya shot him a sidewise glance but obliged nonetheless. And they continued on their way, stopping for lunch once the heat became unbearable.
     
    Rain sat under the shade of a huge jackfruit tree and helped himself to some more items that he had stored away. He had with him about a week’s supply of food. After that, he would have to begin surviving on whatever the forest had to offer. But he was not overly worried about that. He knew how to hunt and it didn’t look like there was any dearth of things to eat in the forest.
     
     
    Freed from the bonds placed on him at Mt. Chimpu, Rain would frequently practice the art of mastering control over his powers. He was rickety in the beginning, when it would straightaway start to pour heavily each time he wanted to make it rain. He started to put in lots of hours into practice until he could control the intensity of the rain. Soon, it rained gently when he wanted it to and at other times, poured so heavily that it was like standing under a waterfall. Afterwards, it neatly halted when he willed. Rain then moved on to practicing making it rain on specific spots but found it very difficult to stay focused long enough to get that right. He kept on at it though, certain it wouldn’t take him long to master this as well.
    With each passing day, Rain found that he was getting more and more infatuated with his Geeya. He kept her around constantly, either engaged in conversation or just flitting about freely around trees. Wherever she was, he found he could not help staring at her and admiring the beauty that was on abundant display. One night, fifteen days into his arrival at Quniverse, the forest was shrouded in darkness due to the heavy cloud cover even though it was a full moon night. Rain was lying on his side, pretending to enjoy the peace and tranquility of the forest, but secretly admiring the form of his Geeya who was nearby, playing with a few fireflies. The night wore on and before long, the clouds cleared from the sky and the moonlight shone down through the gaps between trees. As it did, something strange seemed to come over his Geeya. She floated out from behind two trees, heading for the small patch of grass awash in pale white light. Her face was turned up to the moon and the minute she entered the light-filled patch, she began to glitter like a diamond under a spotlight. She closed her eyes as if in a trance and started to sway. Slowly at first, and then faster with