Lakshmi nods, silent, wrapping her arms around her in return. Sliding against her hair, her back. Holding onto her tightly.

"I was the fool. Not you. I made an assumption that hurt us both because I was frustrated."

She in returns burrows her face against Magni's hair. It is palatable the comfort she feels in her closeness. Rolling over her like a river, washing down and clearing it away. Til she was no more than a smooth pebble, and not the bundle of barbs she had been before.

There was a wonder in that, how Magni could soothe her so wholly in a matter of minutes when it usually required what Jhalkari had done to work it out of her. "Can you ever forgive me?"