“The barracks went dark. The dark being — not Mumbai-dark (Mumbai was never dark, Mumbai was the city that insisted on light, the insistence being the streetlights and the phone screens and the particular Mumbai glow that came from ten million people refusing to sleep). This dark was space-dark. The dark of a vessel floating in void. The void-dark that was total, the totality being: when the barracks lights switched off, there was nothing. No ambient light, no streetlight leak, no phone glow (the WristNav's screen dimmed to black). Nothing but the breathing.”