One rainy morning much later, a young woman came into his shop carrying a battered radio that looked like Punet’s cousin. Its speaker cone was torn. She said she’d tried and tried to get it to say anything but static. Rahat smiled and took the radio. He tuned the dial slowly, like a man turning a key.

People called Rahat a good man. He was good in the way a lamp is good: steady, useful, willing to be handed over. But the truth was simpler—he had learned to listen.

“Choices collect like leaves,” she said. “Some we burn to keep warm. Some we tuck away to study. But there are always ones that wait for a hand.”

Rahat wrapped the pocket watch in a cloth and walked as the rain thinned. The city at midnight is a different map: doors painted black, a market folded into sleep, stray cats that walked like tiny emperors. The red arch was where the old tram stopped its service—an ornamental gateway from when the line had been grander. He stood beneath it, watching the puddles reflect neon, and wound the watch.

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