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You are not alone.

Surangama, I shall not keep anything from you. When he set the palace on ﬁre, I could not be angry with him. A great inward joy set my heart a-flutter all the while. What a stupendous crime! What glorious prowess! It was this courage that made me strong and fired my own spirits. It was this terrible joy that enabled me to leave everything behind me in a moment's time. But is it all my imagination only? Why is there no sign of his coming anywhere?

He of whom you are thinking did not set fire to the palace—it is the King of Kanchi who did it.