Tongue - tied

Sagrika took a pause after she admitted that she returned after leaving Manya at the hospital with Bijendra kaka. She looked at Arjun first and then shifted her gaze to her professor, both of them were listening to her narration intently, urging her to go on with their eyes. She then gathered the courage to speak again but was unable to find the words, as if all the words from her memory had vanished, her mental dictionary had become a blank slate at that moment. She felt that had language been a person, she would have erased all traces and disowned her; if it would have been a society, she would be an outcast. She felt like she could never explain anything to anyone anymore, at least not in this lifetime!

She tried to collect all the energy that was left in her body and channelled it into words, but something entirely different came tumbling out of her mouth, “I can't do it anymore...I can’t narrate after this!”