"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!"