They run deeper than you see

"Resonances of the broken,

The cry of the beaten,

behind the forced smile of the lass

who had let life be, lays the unsheathed swords"

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Not a moment one on one talks presented itself lest she seized the chance. Salima always looked forward to conversations with Anisa, it wasn't that she didn't like to converse with Bushra, she was a smooth talker and light-hearted. When Bushra's talks began to centre the true essence of being woman as being humbled before a man to master his heart and own his love, it would bore Salima and she would lean to Anisa, for the thought-provoking. edging the mind between reason and the unanswerable.

Anisa had asked for escort, she was to see her uncle who worked in one of the most coveted offices in the university, the Senate building and Salima didn't decline.