lordofsunshadowandsailor:

Probably feeling guilty in his irresponsible repose, in dreams – where the sun always shone because he stood in Frederic’s company – Alvar strangely kept watching and guarding over his cousin in reality. 

Though actually sleeping both here and there, in dreams he perceived the shadow of a raised sword running across his chest and over his neck and shoulder, or it were the sun beaming on the blade to penetrate between his closed eyelids – and perhaps because of the dream yoga he had learned and practiced in the monastery in Sikkim, Alvar immediately understood the assault to be true and real – and not only happening in his dreams.

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