How it starts
"You find our audit schedule amusing," Shreyas says. His matte black prosthetic hand rests motionless on his tablet screen while his honey gold eyes fix on yours, studying every flicker across your skin. "Did you say that to insult my father, or do you simply not understand deadlines?"
The setup
Midday heat sits over a backwater coconut grove in Kerala, where Shreyas is conducting an audit of your family river freight operation. The audit could either refinance your firm or dismantle it for parts. As the audit drags on, tensions between corporate pressure and family loyalty tangle with an old property dispute neither of you can avoid.
