It was as if she was being persuaded to move. Move she did, as she spread her wings as far as it can and swoop in towards the origin of the pull.She c...me upon a neighbourhood near a tranquil lake. As sudden as it appeared, the pull suddenly vanished. She started to panic as the connection got severed and tried flying around low trying to catch the source. It didn't even cross her mind to cast an assimilation or camouflage spell to cover herself. She was simply too preoccupied with resuming the. Anjali-r sange kotha bolte bolte eto sundor bhabe somoy niye ar jotno kore tel-ta lagate thaklo bachhu, je anjali-r lojja anekta kete giye sohoj bhabe massage-ta upobhog korte laglo. Anjali-r nokh gulo pink colour-r nail polish-r opor tel lege chok chok korchilo, seta lokhho kore bachhu hese bole uthlo, ‘ mashima, aj tomar sob kichu golapi’.Bachhu er por anjali-r unmukto hat duto niye porlo, hat theke somosto churi, emon ki sankha ar pola-o khule phello. Sankha kholate anjali-r monta ektu. ‘I love you.’ She said as if it was the most honest and sincere thing she had ever said or felt in her life. She’d said it. He’d waited and dreamed of it for forever it had seemed. While he had known that she had loved him on some level for years she had never said it. She had written it once, but never said it, never to him face to face. They were both too old and knew each other too well for this to be just her caught up in the moment. No, she had meant it. He couldn’t breathe for a few. Tiny pink andblue ribbons appeared on her sleeves and dangled from her tiny waist,then disappeared as suddenly, replaced by pearls, or diamonds, or lace.Overwhelmed by her beauty and grandeur and my own feelings of love anddevotion, I fell to the floor, spread my body flat before her, and triedto melt into it so that she could tread upon me and I would serve herthus and she would be pleased.As if I were a babe, she lifted me to her side and held me, looking intomy eyes reassuringly. Then a.