Well, September came and went, and my intended update did not happen. I got slammed by Real Life obligations left and right, including a couple festivals in my school/village, a professional conference at which I'm paneling, a bunch of emergency house repairs, a bucketload of grad school applications, having to re-teach myself all of the math that I ever learned in preparation for the GRE in three weeks... So. Um. Yeah.

The next chapter has not even been sent to be beta'd, yet.

I apologize for keeping my few readers waiting, and I promise to try my best to double-update sometime in October.

Chapter Four: Rose

I'm still working working ahead of one of my betas here, so forgive me for the slow pace.

Anyway, new chapter! If you squint you'll see the first (unnamed) references to an extremely important character whom we'll meet again during the exile part of the story. ;)

In lieu of posting new chapters (sorry!), I've uploaded the revised versions of chapters 1 through 5. The revisions are a result of my own continuity checks, consultation with steelehearts, and me wanting to change things to get them more in line with later (still unpublished) chapters.

PS - Easy trivia question time. There is exactly one basic food ingredient mentioned in the fic so far that was NOT present when and where the original Mahabharata took place. Hint: It was likely invented in the Mahabharata era, but on the opposite side of the globe.

Part Six

In which Arjuna faces his destiny. Sort of.

Part Four

In which tragedy strikes.

Part Three

In which Karna makes his debut.