The soft breeze of morning brushes over the garden. The atmosphere, still heavy from the chaos of the previous night, slowly starts to shift. Birds chirp somewhere in the distance, but the main focus of everyone’s eyes is a young woman sitting on the grass like she belongs there.... Adhira.

Devaki walks out quietly from the back door, holding a steel bowl of dog food, warm and fresh. She slowly walks over to Adhira, her eyes filled with a soft, unexplainable affection