@hyrded “No jaanu, it just means you have to try harder. It means….I want to say yes, but I also want you to work for it.” Her words rang with clear challenge: playful, reflected by the telltale twinkle in her eye and the curve of her lip. It had become her favourite way to pass time, seeing how much she could get rurik to stretch and fold to her ‘nakhre’. Presently, she didn’t even spare him a glance, fingers busy stringing petals onto a delicate thread to make a garland.