"Yes, yes, since you are insisting so much, I am going straight to the outer room right now to quickly eat my night food go! Do not keep any more worries inside your mind, you go to your own room now. I will come back after eating and lie down completely quietly on my bed to sleep go! All of you go to your respective rooms and sleep in great peace now let me see!"
Snigdha then rolled her two eyes a little and, with thorough cleverness, asked Prafulla, "By the way, re Prafulla, our younger sister Prabhasha—has she eaten her night food by now and gone straight to her own room to sleep, re, huh? Is she not to be seen anymore in the outer quarters?"
Hearing such a calm inquiry regarding Prabhasha from his sister's mouth, Prafulla felt a massive relief within his mind. He thought that the madness of the afternoon in Snigdha's head had probably subsided completely. Prafulla smiled mildly, shook his head, and said, "Yes, yes, Snigdha! Sister Prabhasha is a thoroughly well-behaved girl, re; she ate her night food a long time ago and went straight to her royal room to sleep in peace. You too, without staying up late for no reason like this, quickly eat and come to your room to lie down let me see!"
Letting out a massive sigh of crooked joy within her mind, Snigdha put on a sweet smile and said, "Oh! I see, I see, that turned out thoroughly well go! All right, Prafulla, you go to your room now, I am going to eat right away."
Prafulla, feeling completely assured by this calm and normal appearance of Snigdha, walked away toward his own room. On the other side, the moment Prafulla stepped out of the room, that sweet smile on Snigdha's face transformed into a massive, terrifying, and conspiratorial smile in a single moment! Tying her veil tightly around her waist, she began to say to herself within her mind, "Thank goodness! Finally, all the disturbances of this Junagarh royal palace have gone to their respective rooms one by one and are immersed in deep sleep go! Now, in the dead of this night, this entire royal palace is absolutely still and deserted! This is indeed the most perfect time for me to go straight to that dark prison down that secret tunnel path! Tonight, I will surely exact these three wishes of mine from that Tantrik, let me see now who possesses how much power to stop me!"
When the inner sanctum of the Junagarh royal palace fell into an absolute, deserted silence of sleep, right at that moment, Snigdha opened the door of her room thoroughly carefully, tiptoeing her feet. Checking the surroundings under the dim light of the corridor torches, she set off straight toward the dark prison down that secret tunnel path.
Coming to the jail, Snigdha, without wasting another single moment, went straight and stood in front of the iron bars of the Tantrik's cell. Bringing a fake, sweet smile of flattery to her face, she called out in a thoroughly affectionate voice, saying, "Oh sister-in-law! See, I have come back to you again in the middle of this night go! I have pondered thoroughly well throughout the afternoon and have come with the best three wishes of my life, hoping for them exactly after my heart go, sister-in-law. You are thoroughly good, I know you will fulfill these desires of mine in a single instant with your supernatural magic! I am thoroughly trusting of you go, sister-in-law. I have understood thoroughly well that if I demand that massive power of reading minds, you will not give it to me, so I have come to demand thoroughly good things from you this time. I do not know anything else, re, you must fulfill these three wishes of mine!"
The Tantrik was lying in a corner of her cell; the moment she caught Snigdha's voice, she got up with a sudden jerk and came near the bars. Pulling her colorful veil a little over her head, she spoke up in a thoroughly grave, feminine voice—"All right, all right! Since you have come to awaken me in the middle of the night, then speak up, speak up—what such massive crooked desires have arisen within your mind, speak them out quickly let me see, re, O you arrogant princess girl!"
On the other side, the wicked stepmother Sushila, confined inside the iron cage, had not slept at all this late at night. Seeing Snigdha secretly slip inside the jail once again in the dead of night, she kept one of her eyes closed and began to think deeply within her crooked mind, "Oh! What has this Snigdha girl come here to do again in the dead of this night, oh father? I see that lately, this girl has been stepping toward the prison a bit too frequently! What is the matter with her, let me hear? Why is she rushing here continuously so late at night, leaving her own bed, intoxicated by the addiction of that miraculous power? Has she harbored a massive addiction to becoming thoroughly powerful within her mind, re? Uh! Witnessing such behavior of this girl, such an intense rage is arising within my own mind—I feel like straightening her head with a single slap, killing her alive, and throwing her onto the dirty path of this jail! Anyway, what is the use of me thinking so much, re, let her do whatever she wants. I am going to sleep quietly now, closing my eyes in my own way!"
But even though Sushila thought of going to sleep by her words, her clever mind did not calm down in the slightest. Smiling crookedly within her mind once again, she said, "No, no, I will never go to sleep now, re! What wishes this Snigdha girl is demanding from the Tantrik, I must prick up my ears and listen to everything one by one. If I can understand those words of her wishes properly with my own ears just once—only then can this Sushila play her next move thoroughly flawlessly in the future accordingly, isn't that right? This Junagarh kingdom will ultimately be mine, I am the one who will be the real queen here!" Thinking this, Sushila began to laugh thoroughly loudly in a massive, fiendish jubilation deep within her mind.
No matter how loudly Sushila laughed a wild laugh within her mind—suddenly, that sorceress Tantrik, possessed of miraculous power, spun her head toward Sushila's cage with a sudden jerk! Making her two eyes completely round, she screamed out in a tone of absolute scolding, saying, "What! O you devilish old woman Sushila Boudi! Being confined inside your iron cage in the middle of the night, has the ghost of becoming a massive king or queen possessed your head again, re, huh? What ugly move you are planning within your mind and what conspiracy you are hatching to claim this Junagarh kingdom in your own name—I can hear every single word of that crooked mind of yours clearly to the letter through this miraculous magic of mine, re, Sushila Boudi!"
Seeing her absolute innermost, highly hidden conspiracy exposed huthu like that from the Tantrik's mouth—Sushila became thoroughly frightened in a single moment! Her heart skipped a beat in an instant. Waving her two trembling hands somehow, she smiled a thoroughly dry smile and stammered, saying, "Oima! No, no, re, my golden Tantrik child, you are understanding it very wrongly, re! I was not uttering or thinking of any such dirty thing regarding that kingdom inside my mind at all, go! Let it be, you do not throw such massive, mature words before me either, bapu! Please let me go completely for now, I will never think or say anything within my mind or from my mouth in this life again, forgive me for this last time, re, child!"
The Tantrik then swayed her waist, made a massive face at her, and said, "Huh! All right, go, I am letting you go for this instance! Am I some living tiger or bear inside this jail—that I will chew you up alive and eat you in one minute, huh? You do not have to enact the drama of being so thoroughly scared anymore, bapu!"
After scolding Sushila, the Tantrik brought her face near the iron bars once again and, looking toward Snigdha with extremely annoyed eyes, said, "What is it, Snigdha girl? Why are you standing straight here like a flat-out stone father now, let me hear, huh? Speak out the words of those three wishes of your mind quickly from your own mouth, let me hear what you are saying!"
Snigdha then folded her two hands firmly across her chest and, showing immense pride, said, "Look, sister-in-law, I am a flat-out straight-talking person, go! I do not like to speak of any matter of my life in such a roundabout or dirty way even in the slightest, bapu! Whatever I say, I will say it straightaway!"
The moment the Tantrik heard this phrase 'straight-talking person' from Snigdha's mouth, she curled her lip and made a massive sarcastic remark, saying, "Huh! Everyone in this world knows thoroughly well, re, Snigdha—how much of a straight-talking person you are! Every single layer inside that crooked mind of yours is continuously filled with the layers of a flat-out dirty onion, re! Just like hundreds of skins come out when one peels an onion, your crooked mind is a flat-out den of conspiracies filled layer upon layer! Let it be, bapu, what profit is it to me with whatever ugly conspiracy is going on in your mind, huh? Now, what exact wishes do you want for your life from me—open your mouth quickly and speak them out in a single moment let me see! After finishing listening to this useless talk of yours, I will go straight to sleep in great peace together with that golden, supremely beautiful husband guard of mine, re!"