Sita's Sister

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

Let me hate you as passionately as I loved you.

Privileged did not mean special; just fortunate. And fortunes could change in a flash

By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good.

You could always call her secretive, masking her feelings beautifully lest anyone intrude into her inmost realm of hidden thoughts. It was a defense Urmila had evolved since childhood.

snippets from here and there—she’s old, she tends to digress

Urmi, as you always do, you promised me a new hope.

Marriage did not hold much interest for Urmila but it was a social discipline she would have to conform to. She would rather seek knowledge instead of a suitor.