Months later, under the same swollen monsoon sky, a child wandered to the riverbank and glimpsed a ripple. She laughed—the sound pure—and the river answered with nothing more than the ordinary slosh of life. The anacondas of Sundarvan remained, hidden and ancient, part of a fragile balance the villagers learned to respect. And when the wind moved through the banyan roots, the old river kept its secrets, while those who had witnessed it kept their promise: to watch, to learn, and to leave the jungle to tell its stories in its own slow time.