There was a shorter route, due north, but there had been some recent troubles with Ryland along the rail there, and it was felt that the audacity of this approach, right through the slave port of Baltimore, would not be expected. The plan was to cross through Virginia by the North West Virginia Railroad and then, once in Maryland, link up with the Baltimore & Ohio and proceed east and north up into the free lands of Pennsylvania, to Philadelphia. Then, on Tuesday, I set out for the town of Clarksburg, where the first leg of my train journey would commence. I walked most of that day and spent the night in the small farmhouse of an old widower sympathetic to the cause. And, though I knew that I would be, somehow, called back there, it was for now behind me-along with the crimes of my father, the slave-catchers known as Ryland’s Hounds, and the spectre of my dancing mother, whom I could barely remember, a void in me that I knew was somehow tied to her sale. I departed Virginia with few effects to my name and no real farewells, on a hot summer Monday morning, four months after I had run from Lockless, the plantation of my birth, the plantation of my father.
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The empire’s primary river Saraswati is gradually drying. In 1900 BC, the once-proud Suryavanshi rulers of the Meluha Empire are in danger. The book story is set in the land of Meluha and begins with the arrival of the Gods of God Shiva. The Meluhans believe that Shiva is their fabled saviour Neelkanth. In this Lord Shiva is presented as a human being. In 1900 B.C., what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation the inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived this once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction they also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis too make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills the only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: when evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge. 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