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Rutvik knows Nahella really loves white flowers

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Rutvik knows Nahella really loves white flowers.

The prison garden outside the Mandir was silent. Prisoner 704 knelt in the dirt, his muscles stiff and aching after the relentless 24-hour standing punishment from the day before. His legs had gone numb hours ago, but he forced himself to move, to dig, to plant. Pain had become a familiar companion, the one he no longer fought against.

His hands, one flesh and one cold metal, were caked in damp soil as he carefully nestled delicate white flowers into the ground. For his Ella.

11 years ago, when he was just a boy with nothing to his name but a flute and a hunger he had long since learned to ignore. She was a stranger who had left behind more than just kindness. She had left behind a name, one he had clung to in the years that followed.

He exhaled slowly and his prosthetic right hand, streaked with dirt. This was the hand she had once held. Small fingers curling around his wrist, warm and unafraid. She had been the first to touch him without cruelty.

 She had been the first to touch him without cruelty

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