He woke up three weeks later in a military hospital. The first thing he was aware of was the phantom pain in his right leg. The second thing was its absence below the knee. The third, and most devastating, was the look on Ananya's face as she sat by his bed.
"How can you sit so still?" she had asked him, her charcoal paused mid-stroke. "You look like a tiger pretending to be a statue." Soldier-s Girl- Love Story of a Para Commando
He had smiled, a rare, unguarded thing. "Practice," he'd said. "Waiting is a soldier's first skill." He woke up three weeks later in a military hospital
She didn't ask where he had been. She didn't ask if he was better. and most devastating