Twilight
- For days Lakshmi has a stream of visitors come to her room, and "some are real. Some are not" (82.Twilight.1).
- Each night she is given a drugged cup of lassi to make her compliant for the men who come to her room, and each morning Shahanna gives her a cup of water and pity.
- Lakshmi imagines that other people come to her room as well: her stepfather, Baija Sita, and Auntie Bimla.
- Because reality is confusing her and too terrible to deal with, Lakshmi decides to think that all the men are a nightmare and not real.