One evening, as mist coiled along the rooftops, she invited the writer inside. Her home was simple—walls the color of worn parchment, a wooden shelf lined with clay pots and old vinyl records. On a corner table sat a faded photograph: Humaira and the composer, their fingers entwined, laughter frozen in sepia. They spent the night working by candlelight. She hummed the melody, and he sketched the notes. It was not a love song. It was not a farewell. It was something else entirely—a reconciliation between silence and voice, between what had been lost and what still remained.
