Dear diary,

I’m starting to worry about Phulan, all she can think about is Hamir and the wedding. She spends all her days wondering what he looks like and acts like. And now I have to follow her around! I can’t help Mithoo, or tend to the other camels, I just have to watch her do nothing, it’s driving me insane. “Daydreaming has overtaken Phulan’s every waking minute.”

 

Dear diary,

Phulan’s life is ruined, Hamir is dead. Nazir Mohammed was going to take Phulan, and killed Hamir instead. All Phulan does now is mourn and feel bad for herself. I pity her, but I miss the old Phulan. “‘Empty’, says Phulan. ‘As if nothing inside me or outside is worth caring about.'”