Sketching her Shadows

A Life in Fragments

Saanvi Rathore had always felt like she was living in two different worlds.

The first was the one she saw every day—the modern world of textbooks, lectures, and a future carefully planned by her family.

The second was the one that haunted her—the one she saw in dreams, in fleeting memories that never truly belonged to her.

Ever since she was a child, strange images filled her mind—places she had never visited, people she had never met, and a love so deep it felt like it was stitched into her very soul. But whenever she tried to understand it, it would slip away like sand through her fingers.

She never told anyone.

Because who would believe her?

A Heart That Wandered

Growing up in Udaigarh, she had always felt out of place. Even as a child, she had spent hours sketching faces she had never seen in real life, recreating moments that didn't exist in any history book.

Her father, a strict and distant man, disapproved of her obsession with art.

"A Rathore woman should focus on her family's name, not foolish fantasies," he would say whenever he caught her lost in her sketches.

But she couldn't stop.

Something deep inside her kept pulling her toward the past—toward something unfinished.

A Name in the Shadows

Unlike Satya, who found one clue after another, Saanvi had almost nothing.

Only scattered dreams. Faint whispers in the wind. Faces she felt she should recognize but never could.

And one name—one shadow—she couldn't escape.

"Veer."

She had never met anyone with that name, yet it felt like a whisper in the back of her mind, an echo of a life she had never lived.

Sometimes, she would wake up in the middle of the night, her heart racing, the name burning in her mind like a forgotten promise.

She never understood why.

But whenever she had the chance, she searched.

She read about past lives, reincarnation, and lost love stories from forgotten centuries. She visited ancient forts and palaces, hoping to feel something—anything—that might give her answers.

But no matter how much she searched, she found nothing.

And so, after graduation, she left everything behind and returned home—only to find that home didn't feel like home anymore.

The Escape to Jaipur

Her family had decided to move to Jaipur, believing that a new city, a new environment, would help her focus on reality.

Saanvi let them believe that.

But deep inside, she knew the truth.

She wasn't running away from her past.

She was chasing it.

Somewhere out there, the missing pieces of her soul were waiting for her.

And soon, she would find them.