Second-hand car, cash, few clothes, fake IDs… The basics for a quick escape. She would’ve turned herself in but for the stowaway in her belly.

Here’s a neat trick: her actions have had consequences on my actions. For no good man lets a pregnant woman flee a crime by herself.

Shruti is enrolled in a technology course that she hates and would much rather pursue a Masters in Modern Literature and Culture. She likes creatively expressing herself through words and screaming into a pillow from time to time.