Originally posted by: CogitoErgoSum
Res 😆 The Peregrine Falcon swoops again!! Saku---should I modify my Patronus from Kangaroo to Peregrine? 😉
Un-Res (The Peregrine Rises from the Swoop) 😛 😉
Saku, my dear sis...🤗 🤗 🤗
If the last chapter was wonderful in its fascinating set of dialogues, these two were outstanding in terms of their plot twists and revelations. You're slowly revealing more and more secrets before the rollicking last chapter and finale, when I'm sure you'll have a knock out punch for us!! 😛 😃
Nest was so poignant, so moving. You highlighted the tenderness, the sheer intertwined nature of SwaSan's bond. I love to think of them as two people who complete each other, who really cannot think of an existence without each other, and that feeling came through so beautifully.
I loved how you put it, that they are familiar with all this intrigue, skirmishing and plotting that goes on around them, after all, they did have their childhood and teens being groomed to take over as the IK & SQ of the winterland! 😊 But they had flapped their wings to fly away, did not find the constant scheming to their taste at all anymore. I LOVED this line, Saku: Moments like these (their togetherness), Stolen between the fires of hatred and the ice of envy around them, were filled with warm and crisp aroma of spring.
You nailed it there, my dear. You know my love of metaphors, and this line had two: The chill of winter giving way to the balmy spring; and the fire & ice duality of the envy and hate all around them. Burning with their chilling fire! But our golden couple have the warmth as well as the cool thinking and skill to break through both na? 😊
I loved how Sanskaar feels so guilty, haunted even, by the ghosts of the past, how he had chosen to leave Swara, in his mistaken assumptions that she was separate from him, being joined with her meant being tied to the crown and throne he despised.
He adores her so much, the very fact that he'd hurt her in the past is like a dagger being plunged in inch by inch into his psyche. He fears that he cannot rely on himself, not to commit the same mistake again, of wounding her again, abandoning her again. And he also fears, that somewhere, he does not deserve her unconditional love, her faith, her forgiveness.
And her response: pitch perfect. She has so much faith and trust in him, in their bond, it was poignantly lovely to read. Just magical, Saku, truly. The way she assured him that he deserved every drop of love he got, that he should not disregard his own worth. 👏 👏
Loved that entire conversation, the way she reassures him about Uttara as well, the fact that their plan will in fact retrieve her from pain, not cause it.
Knights of the same color
I was fascinated by the Kavita--Lakshya conversation, Saku. A masterstroke of writing by you. I still wonder, whose hate, whose conniving is more vile and more dangerous.
Lakshya, who sees nothing wrong in disregarding his own culpability in what happened, feels he deserves a second chance, and is willing to put on a most despicable act to split two people whom he knows love each other and are united in marriage. (Of course, he deludes himself that Sanskaar doesn't truly care for Swara, but I feel this is just a self soothing delusion, he knows very well what Sanskaar feels!)
And though he himself is upto all this conniving, plotting and lying, he feels so "betrayed" that the two people he is scheming against, have in turn caught his act and are playing him. Pot calling the kettle black? Aaarrrggghh...I so dislike this guy. Saku, each time I try valiantly not to think so low about him, but then here he is, coming hopping in warts, slime and all! 🤢 😡
And Kavita: fascinating. She's not there anymore to recover or fight for her lost love. And her dialogue to Lucky was even more chilling. She's after just revenge, and the satisfaction of sucking other's happiness away from them, the pleasure of seeing them hurt. And she mirthlessly tells him, that he reminds her of a man, who wants to cure the itch in his arm, by chopping it off! Truly a masterstroke of an insight, for Lakshya doesn't realize that he can only hurt himself further, the way he is going.
Of the two, I think I find Kavita's plan, her compulsion, the more chilling, Saku. I can loathe Lakshya, feel disdain for his entitlement complex and lack of introspection, but Kavita's calm and cold acceptance that she's too hollow to be loved, but still wants to rob others of their bliss, was chillingly evil. Perhaps that sounds dramatic---but that is how she came across here. A Snow Queen, utterly and completely cold and chilly in her vile plans. 😲
Saku...I will comment on the other parts of the update shortly in another post, I need to rush off for some work now.
Lots of Love,
---Viji
