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" as a novel writer you should read this " 🕯️ Prologue: "The Ink Bleeds Back" (Anvi & Zahir | Dual Dialogue) The attic was always cold, even in July. Even when the sun bled red across the windowpanes like an open wound. Anvi sat hunched over her old typewriter, fingers tapping like she wasn't in control. The clack of keys echoed through the empty house, almost like footsteps behind her. Dust floated in the golden light like ghosts waiting to be named. She was writing him again. Zahir. He wasn't just a character. He was her safe place. Her beautiful lie. Where others had broken her, he had held her. Where her world collapsed, he had stayed. Where her silence screamed, he had listened. She wrote his eyes dark like ink in water. His voice-deep, soft, almost addictive. And his smile-half pain, half poetry. And now... He whispered. > "Tum mujhe kyun likhti ho, Anvi?" "Why do you write me, Anvi?" Her hands stopped. The keys fell silent. She looked up at the attic window-and blinked. Her reflection was no longer alone. She turned around fast-no one there. Just cold air pressing against her skin, like invisible hands. > "Kyunki tu hi toh hai..." she whispered. "Jo kabhi mujhe chhod ke nahi jaata." "Because you're the only one who never leaves me." And then... The typewriter began to move. She wasn't touching it. Word by word, it typed. > "Toh mujhe apne hakekat banao." "Then let me be real." Anvi's throat tightened. Her heartbeat slowed... or maybe stopped. The words on the paper didn't feel fictional anymore. They felt alive. And somewhere deep inside her... she wasn't scared. Not yet.
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