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Thoiba, for his part, said nothing. He just held her fingers under the marriage cloth and squeezed. Three times. I love you. I love you. I love you.

She laughed. And that laugh, Thoiba later told her, was the moment he began counting the days until he saw her again. But this is Manipur, and love is never just love. It is also the map of who belongs to which valley, which hill, which panchayat , which memory of old wounds. Leima's family were valley Meiteis, Hindu, settled. Thoiba's were hill Meitei, with Christian cousins and a grandmother who still kept a khongnang —a traditional shaman's drum—in the rafters.

"He's wrong," she said flatly.

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Thoiba looked up, startled. Then he smiled—a slow, shy thing, like dawn over the Koubru range. "He listens better than people."

"You didn't."

That was not why she loved him. But it was why she trusted him. They met properly a year earlier, at the Sangai Festival by the edge of Loktak. Thoiba was demonstrating his pony's gait—that peculiar, floating trot unique to the breed, as if the horse were walking on clouds over the phumdis. Leima, a fisheries student from Thoubal, was collecting water samples for a project on the lake's declining feathery moss. Thoiba, for his part, said nothing

It was the rainy season of 2019, and the red soil of Imphal Valley had turned to rust-colored glue. Thoiba, who bred Manipuri ponies—the small, hardy Meitei Sagol —had promised to bring her fresh pineapple from his family's orchard in the hill town of Lamlai. But the roads had washed out, and the bus service had stopped.

Eighteen kilometers over muddy slopes, past the Loktak Lake's floating phumdis, with a burlap sack slung over one shoulder and a ripe pineapple tucked inside like a secret. When he arrived at her family's tea stall near the Ima Keithel market, his white phanek was stained to the knees, and his feet were blistered.

But Leima took the pineapple. She cut it with her mother's thou —the heavy kitchen knife—and watched the juice run yellow over her fingers. She offered him the first slice, the sweet heart of it. I love you

He walked.

But she did not walk away. Instead, she watched Thoiba murmur to the pony in Meitei— ngaikhi, ngaikhi, calm now —and saw how his hands moved, light as a péna player's fingers on the horse's neck. She had grown up around men who shouted at their animals. This one whispered.

Leima knew she would marry him the day he carried a pineapple across the whole of Kangchup Hills.

The Pony and the Pineapple