Amaya treating her diary as a play thing and eventually tearing off the page, gave Swara the main idea for the curse. The anger she had felt in that moment was undeniable. She used the same anger for dwarf and her curse.

"Whoa! You ended up giving logic to all the things. Moon, librarians, the weird rules of the library...last but not the least, the freaking ink and feather," Selena said in awe.

"Will you manage to do everything I mentioned? Or should I tone down the cure?" Swara asked, suddenly scared that she put a lot of pressure on Selena.

"She has managed to complete everything that is mentioned here," her mother said, before teasing, "Now she just needs to figure out how to properly write with the ink and feather."

"Writing correctly with them is not the part of cure. I just need to understand how painstakingly hard it is to write with them. Which I do." Selena stuck her tongue out.

"You...you have finished all parts of the cure?" Swara asked in shock, not believing her eyes.

Selena scratched the back of her head sheepishly. "I have been studying behind your back."

That was the learning part.

"She helped me with my novels," Mann said, "The part where she helps the author."

"And through Mann, I also learned how hard writing down the thoughts is."

Mann's eyebrows raised. He hadn't known that Selena was eavesdropping on his conversation.

"The fact that Selena admires you and looks up to you also covers the part of cure," Naman added.

"You...you admire me?" Swara looked at Selena, "Didn't you hate me?"

"I was hurt and angry," Selena said sheepishly, "I cannot hate you even if I try."

"And you only get angry at someone you love," Naman said, using an old movie dialogue.

"Really?" Mann perked up.

"You are an exception," Naman popped his hopes immediately.

There was no love in his anger. Naman simply didn't like him.

"Don't worry, he will come around." Selena patted Mann's back in comfort.

"So, we are at the end of the story, huh?" Vriha said, in excitement.

Just a month ago, it seemed like her sister would give up on writing. But today, she was about to finish her novel.

"Conceptually yes, but I need to write down many things to actually finish the story. I have to make up conversations about how they will find the curse and cure it together, add some funny and cute scenes. I also need to patch things up between Naman and Mann."

"No need for the last one," Naman interrupted.

"Shut up," Swara said, making him pout.

Swara then turned towards Selena and Mann. "Can you tell me the details about your talks and learning which you did? So I can write them down in the story," Swara requested.

"Are you going to write down our real experiences?" Selena's eyes widened.

"You just want everything handed to you on a silver platter, huh?" Naman tutted at Swara, "Use your own brain."

Swara narrowed her eyes at him, "Don't come in between. I just didn't want to end up writing something that they are uncomfortable with. If I write it then they will have to do it with or without their will."

"Oops," Naman scratched his head. He didn't think about that.

"And let's not forget that they worked together and solved the major part of the curse on their own. Their genuine efforts would be more effective than the ones I come up with," Swara added.

"True," Vriha piped up. "Even in your curse, you mentioned about genuinely trying to learn and help authors. So doing anything after finding the curse will be rendered useless."

"Bingo." Swara gave her a thumbs up, before sighing, "It would really be an end after I tie up all the loose ends." She looked at everyone gratefully, "Thank you so much everyone, this story would have never ended without everyone's help."

"You cannot end the story," Amaya yelled, rushing towards Swara in panic, having heard the last words.

"You cannot end it," she said breathlessly.

"What's your problem?" Naman asked, looking at her annoyed. He still didn't like her. Though he was now feeling smug for having a better character arc than her.

"You are alive!" Amaya exclaimed, only having noticed him. "Thank Goodness."

She was relieved to know that she didn't kill him, but she had to hurry before the author ended up killing them all.

"What will happen to us if you end the story? What if we die?" Amaya spoke out her fear.

"Shit!" "Fuck." "Damn."

In came everyone's varied and panicked reactions. They hadn't thought about that.

"That means you cannot ever end the story?" Vriha asked Swara.

"If I won't then the diary will. You know it works on its whim," Swara muttered. "And we won't even know if there will be a happy ending for all."

"So it's the end for all of us," Naman commented, looking at everyone he had come to love.

"No, I won't let you die." Swara said, before thinking, 'I just got you back.'

"How about an open ending?" Mann suggested, making Swara look up at him with hope.

"The story ends but character's lives keep going on," he said.

"It's not an end but a New Beginning," Swara quoted.

"How original," Vriha snorted at the Cliche line.

"Who cares if it's cliche? As long as it helps us live," Naman said.

At the same time, Selena huffed.

"Since when is cliche bad?" She loved reading cliche books.

"Cliche is cliche because it's loved by many," Swara said, siding with Selena and glaring at Vriha.

Before Vriha could argue, Swara added, "If you have any other idea then speak up, or just shut up and go along with it."

Swara turned towards Amaya at last. "Don't worry, I will make sure to make things better for you as well."

Amaya nodded gratefully, before apologizing, "Sorry for my actions and rudeness. I am usually not that bad. Don't know what happened to me that time."

"Situations make the person," Swara quoted Mann's words, forgiving her instantly.

After all, she was her dear character too.