Chapter 9: Closing the Hall

Kabir stayed to help her close up, which wasn't part of any arrangement between them — he simply hadn't left when the last stragglers had, had instead started folding chairs without being asked, stacking them in their usual sixes along the back wall while Meera coiled extension cords and counted the cash box from the sweets stall. "You don't have to do this," she said, watching him hoist another...