A dead courier. Twenty-four missing phones. One witness who lied.

Mira repairs phones by day and makes deliveries by night in Kolkata. When a courier's sister brings her his damaged handset, she wants his name cleared. But the recordings inside lead straight to a false statement Mira once signed.

Each recorded story asks a question. Each honest answer costs Mira something: wages, work, or the trust of people she needs. To expose what happened to the missing consignment, she must first put her own mistake on the record.

An original standalone mystery novella inspired by the question-and-consequence storytelling frame of the Vikram-Betal tradition. Eight chapters with a complete ending.

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