Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum
Res for comment about SK & Casper 😛
Un-Res
Hey Saku...sorry for un-resing a bit late, but this weekend has been one of those that are busier even than weekdays! 😕
As always, a brilliantly paced chapter. I've noticed this in most of the chapters across all your works, there is a lovely tempo you maintain throughout.
You have written SK in this work so well. He knows just how to handle Swara; how to reassure her, while at the same time not make her feel he is patronizing her or pitying her. I liked the touch about him giving her his kerchief to wipe her tears; him cajoling her to stop crying by teasing her with his nick name for her "Casper" 😆; and asking if she isn't too old to be crying during power blackouts!! 😆 This is so what Swara needs right now; not a guy she doesn't know too well smothering her with ostentatious concern (even if its heartfelt), but a more casual, breezy approach. And boy, it certainly worked. BTW, Casper noticed SK's soft hair. 😛 What next? His smoky gray (If he follows Perry Mason!) or caramel brown eyes? 😉
Again, I felt disappointed with Shomi. She feels her daughter may not even have found a friend's house to stay in, but still chose to take the easy option and go back with that poor excuse of a father, husband and human being in general--Shekar "waste of space" Gadodia. 😡 She even cuts the call diplomatically since the said waste of space is---well---occupying space nearby! This is the 2nd work of yours where you've made me not so fond of Shomi 😉 After IK/SQ. I felt just so desperately sorry for Swara, reading how lonely and forlorn she felt.
Brilliant stroke about the Mehndi BTW. So canny of SK, what observation and presence of mind, to have spotted it. So now it appears Ragini was not just jumping to conclusions after she saw Swara trying to pull out the knife---she was lying through her teeth, since Swara hadn't handled the knife at all!
Does that mean Ragini is the murderess? Or at the very least, she saw who the killer was, but tried to conveniently frame Swara? Man, theories, theories! I know only 2 things for certain, neither SK nor Casper is the murderer! 😆
Can't wait for the next chapter, Saku. 😊