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Ballads of Nirvana
Chapter 19
Part 2

Mythri was in the bakery looking at all the cakes, she was so puzzled at having so many choices that she honestly thought she should have made a cake at the bungalow kitchen instead.
She asked the baker what the best choice of cake would be for a teenager who was obsessed with books and music and he looked at her like she was mad.

“Young lady, I think you should know that, you look like a dork yourself.” The plumpy baker replied, smirking at her pointedly. But Mythri considered cutting his wrist open with a knife and healing it again just to see how he would like to ‘reconsider what he just said’. But she simply smiled and said “Pack the Red velvet with this written on it.”
She handed him a note that said ‘Happy birthday Indriya/Princess.’ Yes, with a slash on it.

Mythri bought a blue sapphire chaplet necklace after bargaining with the shopkeeper for a hell lot of time. She even threatened him that she would press charges of treason against him, after which he gave the necklace for half the price. She was on her way home, when she realised she had to get her gift.
So she sat down on one of the benches and thought about all her memories with the Princess. She pulled out each one of her memories one by one and assessed them, every detail for how she spoke to what she wore.
Thanks to Mythri’s mechanical brain, this side of her always puzzled her, the kind that had to assess too many human emotions. The part of her that strangely made her cold rigid heart feel warm and calm, sometimes it even seemed to...flutter when she was around… ____________________
Indriya took a relaxing bath and walked out of her bathroom draped in her towel and drying her wet hair. Warm water trickled out of her wet hair onto the floor. She opened her closet to find the half saree that had beautiful lotus blossoms embroidered in its indigo silk, a gift from Mythri. She had given it to her when Indriya had arrived in Nirvana.
She put the dress on and she assessed herself in the mirror.
It fit her like a charm and she looked like a...complete stranger. She sat down in front of the mirror to find a...