| 'Time' Series |
| Time#1 : Book One of The 'Secrets Duology' |
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The workings of her brain were a mystery to her own pneuma.
That's what Hinduja Rao always thought.
But, quite similar to her thoughts about her own self, was someone else aro...
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Word Count : 6900
Target : 300
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06 | The Healthy Adult, The Starved Child & An Old Neighbour
Alert on her two feet and vigilant through her two eyes all the time—every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every passing month and year—that's how she had lived all along.
It's not that she wanted to do all this voluntarily, but when your head smelled of an impending war, hands reeked of used and unused weapons, and feet stank of blood, pus, and mud, that's all you would be forced to do at the end of the day.
After all, the best way to kill something was to let it starve. So, she let her carelessness starve. She starved it to the point of no return. So starved that the malnourished, careless child shackled inside perished at the hands of the supposedly healthy, alert, and cunning adult roaming outside.
The alert adult feasted on everything it could muster, while the careless little child begged for even the last bit of teardrop.
And that caused Hinduja Rao—the Dogra matriarch—to wonder if the man she was married to, the high and mighty patriarch of the Dogra clan, ever got the chance to play the game of starvation too.
If yes, how did he play it? Did he even fare well in it?
Did he starve only the child like she did? Or did he starve both the child and the adult, unlike she did?
