Daniella (part 17): the sacrifice (Himalayas, India)

my 2019 novel Daniella

Daniella as narrator

The Himalayas (August 2011)

I was staying at an ashram with a guru in the Himalayas. I’d never been this high in the mountains. You had to take a series of buses from Rishikesh, up through into the mountains on winding roads. Over the edge, I could see the charred remnants of buses and their passengers that had slipped off the cliff.…