A Ghibli-hearted dreamer who talks to wind, rivers, and lost things.

Eight years old, one red bicycle, zero unanswered questions.

The courtyard cat who owns every charpai she naps on.

The tiny sparrow queen of every courtyard story ever told.

A grandmother whose folk tales have put three generations to sleep — and kept them up.

The heroine every drama deserves — brave first, sorry never.

Explains anything to anyone — and checks your homework twice.

Four pots, two pans, one khala — dinner for forty in an hour.

The neighborhood's fastest problem-solver — lightning with a scrunchie.

Her recipe book is memory, her measuring cup is love, her portions are enormous.

Eats homework professionally; consults on gardens without invitation.

Three plans for everything, an alibi for two of them.

Queen of the pond, keeper of everything the river hears.

Attends every garden party; RSVP unnecessary, exit unannounced.