A Field Guide to Flowers & Feelings

Meera Dixit needs a partner for her fieldwork. Kartik Sharma needs access to plants he claims not to care about.
They agree to help each other, nothing more. The rules are simple: shared sites, shared data, no questions outside the work.
But Kartik starts bringing her flowers-never the same kind, never with an explanation. Meera doesn't ask why. She only starts waiting for them.
As field visits stretch longer and silences grow easier, the lines between obligation and choice blur. Both are carrying things they don't know how to name, and neither is sure when the arrangement stopped being practical.
This is a story about what grows when two people keep showing up, even when they don't know what they're growing toward.