Lakshmi gives no such pause - that determined way she knew what she wanted, she wanted to be as close to Magni as she could, to list into her, look up searchingly to her face. She pauses, as she watches her teeth catch on her lip. Her own hand, caught between them, lifts, gently brushing against her bottom lip to loosen it, to tug her nearer. "You kissed me first, in the forest? Do you remember? And now - this, I believe your land itself knows how much we mean to each other."

It's fanciful, daydream-like, all stories. But she has many of them, in her own way. "It has bound us, now."