KHARASOM, India -- We were served sweet tea and shortbread while waiting for the king, sitting on low rattan stools in a single-story red-brick cottage. Two boys crouched behind our hostess, staring unblinking with bold, hazel eyes, sucking on their biscuits. At my feet yawned a Naga hunting hound, a midnight black Tangkhul Hui.
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