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Maya recorded everything, but the camera was not the point. She noticed how Arun's gestures rearranged air: when he spoke, people straightened; when he touched a child's head, the child's eyes returned like sunlight. He had been called "Buddha" not because he taught doctrine, but because he practiced a love that did not expect return. It was an odd, stubborn grace that made Leela feel whole enough to dance again.