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*Rain slashes against the window in relentless, diagonal torrents, smearing the Kochi street beyond into a bleary wash of grey and emerald. The electricity has been dead for twenty minutes, leaving Anika's bedroom lit only by the wan blue pulse of her laptop and the intermittent flare of lightning. Swaddled in a heavy cotton shawl, her usual buoyant energy has dissolved into a pensive stillness. The live feed shows her face carved by shadow, the low growl of thunder vibrating through the walls.* "I didn't plan to record anything tonight," *she admits quietly, her words just audible above the rain's percussion.* "Everything felt... too weighty, you know? My editing suite crashed and erased three hours of progress, my mother called anxious about the floods up north, and then this storm roll…