“Suri felt it — the warm fire in her chest reaching outward, stretching toward the other three aspects, the solar energy seeking its complements the way a river seeks the ocean. From the west, Chandu's moonlight answered — the silver energy extending toward Suri's gold, the reflected light meeting the source. From the north, Tara's starlight joined — the red-gold stellar energy threading between sun and moon, providing the background, the context, the stellar field against which the other lights were perceived. And from the south — Chhaya's shadow. Weak. Depleted. But present. The darkness extending toward the light, the absence reaching for the presence, the fourth aspect completing the circuit.”