Upon the Hillock

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Upon the Hillock</em><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> describes life in the wild hills and woodlands of Kerala in India. A place where snakes elephants and tigers are a common threat to the people that live there.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This story follows the life of a princess Rajalakshmi who is banished from the royal household in disgrace after her conniving cousin the Kings niece ensures she is caught in a compromising position with a young man.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She is sent to live in a compound run by a lecherous man who has designs on winning her affections. However after becoming ill with a bout of smallpox she is left in the woodlands to die. She survives however after being found by a native called Kodanddi himself heir to the throne of his tribe.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They marry and have a son a male heir to the King's throne... and then soldiers start turning up and the couple worries for their son's life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will the niece succeed in her plan? Kodanddi and Rajalakshmi go into hiding with their son and Kodanddi's mother to stop this from happening. Will the young heir survive?</span></p>