"Lives a Character while creating it" read the description of The Nineteenth Character which was defined by the word 'Character' in a light- green coloured cell of the spreadsheet. Changaswami took a last look at it in Pranshul's laptop, allowed the mental image to get absorbed and began to think.

"How do I bring this all together and sum it all up?" he thought to himself as he strolled on the muddy floor along the edges of the room, caressing the soda cans with his fingers, while he walked. He tried to remember what date it was that day but he had no way of knowing. Based on the Character he was feeling like that day, he guessed it must be The Twenty Eighth Day of the month. The month was definitely July since he was feeling like a Leo that day. The rain outside agreed too. It was Mohini's birthday Two days later.

Mohini was the love of Changaswami's life. She died a year ago and he had decided to spend his whole life in her memories. After all, he intended to marry her. If she were alive, they would've been together. So, he'd just tell everyone and himself that he had a wife named Mohini but he was not living with her due to some unfortunate circumstances which occurred during his married life. He had marked her birthday as the day of their union. So, it was technically their first anniversary Two days later.

He had made a lot of plans about how he would introduce her in the Story. He had thought of igniting a love Story between Pran and Ragini in the spaceship and introducing Mohini as The Twenty Second Character, represented by the name Mo with the description 'Holds on to her first love'. After making them reach Earth, he had planned on narrating a power struggle between Pran and Ahmed, since they both represented the letter 'A' in their respective realities and to end the Story by joining Pran and Ragini together as Two ends of a finite line, coming together to form a circle and becoming infinite, thus, representing the Universe and beyond. And finally, he would have concluded it with Pranshu, Pranshul and PranShoe becoming One, turning back into The Ninety Seventh Gentleman who would go on to spend the rest of his immortal life with The Ninety Sixth Lady, who would have been revealed to have same characteristics as Mohini. But when the time to tell all that came, he was so affected by Mohini's memories which he possessed, that he introduced her in the plainest way possible.

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Partially, it was because he had begun to see that all this time that he was narrating the Story of all the characters, he was actually just trying to better understand his own self. Everything he had narrated was actually about things he deeply felt for. They were all his true thoughts and feelings which he had segregated and assigned to different characters.

He was in Two minds now about how to end this Story. One way was to actually Show the events that connected everything together, as he had initially planned. The second way was to stay true to himself and to just demonstrate his Character description, 'Lives a Character while creating it'.

He chose the latter.