arshi,
sort of thrilling to watch you decipher a chapter by me. i feel kinda honoured. thanks, my dear friend. you pick on all pertinent points and you get exactly what i was trying to convey. really that sibling bond is lovely. real. if i put myself in either ones shoes i can see how terribly important they have become to each other.
people survive hardship in different ways. not necessary that in that situation all siblings will react in the way these two did toward each other. but given their circumstances and characters, they did. i find it interesting to delve into the why of it.
on crooner once, we'd had a long chat about why anjali could never turn against khushi after finding out about shyam's thing for her. i'd felt anjali would be mad at khushi. but now i feel, not really, because khushi is too intricately entwined with asr's happiness and there's nothing anjali would do to harm that... she will somehow find a way not to hate khsuhi.
ah, just rambling. character is so important isn't it?
shyam... i am getting to him by and by. but arshi, the story of shyam in "without you" is dedicated to you. he will get what he deserves here and i hope to see you leaping with joy at that. real life can do what it pleases, but here, we are the creators what... we get our way bwahahaha. 😆
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