AUTHOR SAHIBA, WHAT A MASTERPIECE 🤗
AND I AM SO SO SO LATE IN RESPONDING THAT ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT I WANTED TO SAY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAID 😉 BUT SINCE MY VIEWS HAVE BEEN WORDED MUCH MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN WHAT I WOULD HAVE MANAGED, I AM QUITE OK 😆
BOTH PARTS WERE FANTASTIC, NO DOUBT
MY FEW POINTS ARE AS FOLLOWS -
I LOVED YOUR DECRIPTION OF THE COLD THAT THE WASHER,MAN WAS FEELING. SUPERB CHOICE OF WORDS DESCRIBING HIS FEAR, AND HIS DISCOMFORT BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER. AND AS REGARDS THE THIRD ATTACKER, I WAS QUITE SURE THAT KHAN SAHIB OR MIRZA SAHIB WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH HIM SUITABLY, SPECIALLY WHEN KHAN SAHIB HAD SPOTTED THE TRIO THEOUGH THE GLASS JAR OF THE HUKKA
I KNOW I AM REPEATING MY VIEWS AND ALSO THOSE OF OTHERS, BUT KUDOS TO MIRZA SAHIB FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD MATE FOR KHAN SAHIB. I LOVE THE WAY IN WHICH ALL HIS MEN FEEL GENUINELY HAPPY FOR THEIR USTAAD. IT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE REGARD THAT THEY HAVE FOR HIM
THE REVELATION THAT KUNWAR MAHENDER WAS INVOLVED WITH KHALIL FROM BEFORE DURGA'S MURDER WAS NEWS TO ME 😭 BUT NOW THAT I THINK BACK I THINK SOME REFERENCES DO COME TO MIND
THE MAHENDER IN GUJARAT REFERENCE OF CHAPTER 1/2 WAS BRILLAINT 👏 YOU SERIOUSLY ARE A MASTER STORY TELLER ⭐️
HEERA'S DEALING WITH THE MUQQANNIS TOO WAS SUPERBLY DEPICTED, THIS REINFORCED YOUR VIEW DURING TE DISCUSSIONS IN THE LAST THREAD, THAT HEERA'S NIMBLE BRAIN IS CERTAINLY QUITE EXTRAORDINARY, AND MAKES UP FOR MOST OF THE PITFALLS THATS SHE FACES DUE TO HER POOR VISION
THE SCENE WITH HEERA'S MAIDS WAS DELIGHTFUL 😳 THE LETTER IN ITSELF WAS TENDER, BEAUTIFUL AND WONDROUS, OF COURSE. BUT THE REFERENCES OF HER REPEATEDLY READING IT, BLUSHING, ETC MADE ME ABLE TO IMAGINE THE ENTIRE SCENE SO VIVIDLY 😉 LOVED HER DILEMMA BETWEEN I-WANT-TO-SHARE AND BUT-I-DONT-WANT-TO-SHARE. DHANI'S BLUNT YET ACCURATE SUMMATION OF KHAN SAHIB'S ROMANTIC PROWESS WAS ADORABLE 😆 AND HEERA HIDING HER FACE IN HER PALMS WAS THE ICING ON THE CAKE 😆
ALSO NOTEWORTHY AND SUPERBLY DEPICTED WAS HOW OFTEN KHAN SAHIB NOW REFERRED TO THE HAVELI AS HIS HOME 😳 HIS 'I AM HUNGRY'COMMENT MADE ME BLUSH FURIOUSLY 😳 AND HEERA'S PLANNING FOR THEM TO SHARE A SPECIAL MEAL WAS FLAWLESS 👍🏼 IT REALLY BROKE MY HEART TO REALIZE THAT THIS WAS KHAN SAHIB'S FIRST TRYST WITH SOMETHING AS BASIC AS A LOVING HOME COOKED MEAL.
AND THE WAY SAHIB ATE THE LADDU HAD ME IN SPLITS 😆😆 THAT WHOLE SCENE WAS BEYOND SUPERB
HEERA'S CONSTANT REFERENCE TO HIS CHANGED VOICE WAS SUITABLY WIFELY AND ENDEARING 😆 NOT ONE TO MISS ANYTHING AMISS ABOUT HER SAHIB, OUR DEAR HEERA, AND I THINK YOU HANDLED THE REVELATION OF THE ATTACK AND ITS AFTERMATH VERY GRACEFULLY. BUT HER POINT THAT SHE CANNOT FIND CLOSURE IN THE CASUAL WAY THAT HE CAN, IS VERY WELL SAID
BUT THE MASTERSTROKE OF THIS CHAPTER, ACCORDING TO ME, IS THE ITTARS THAT HEERA MADE FOR HER SAHIB 👏⭐️ HOW ON EARTH COULD YOU THINK OF IT, REALLY!!!
I MIGHT HAVE SAID THIS EARLIER, THAT I THINK YOUR INTIMATE SCENES ARE A CLASS APART - VERY SUBTLE AND VERY BEAUTIFUL
WHEN I READ SUCH SCENES THAT YOU WRITE I AM OFTEN REMINDED OF THE STATUE OF THE VEILED REBECCA AT SALARJUNG MUSEUM - BEAUTY OF THE SCENE IS INTACT DESPITE THE VEIL (AND THE FIRST TIME I HAD THIS THOUGHT WHEN I READ THE NJAPA STALKER ATTACK AFTERMATH SCENE)
SO THANKS DEAR FOR TAKING US FOR YET ANOTHER PEEP INTO THEIR LIVES.
AND WITH THAT I AM MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE IN LOVE WITH KHA. SAHIB ❤️
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