He hooks Naina to a bio-feedback machine. Instead of lying down on a couch, she is forced to sit opposite a two-way mirror. On the other side? A re-enactment actor playing her dead husband.

Dark therapy had done what it promised that night: it had illuminated a fault-line. Whether light would ever be enough to mend it was another question—one Arjun now had to face awake, with a daylight that offered no excuses.